You won't see gee-whiz fast every thing since your system is more than able to do simple things very fast. All you can really impact are tasks that take lots of wall time for you. If you are happy to encode at night, I don't see what you gain in this upgrade. Me, I like to do stuff while I'm awake and I want it to finish faster. When I edit, I'm tweaking over and over til I get what I want, so I get the benefit of the speed improvement. I do like having 16GB of RAM. It may affect your max over clock. I got the 1600 stuff, but I'm not convinced i see a big benefit other than on some benchmarks, but the price was good so I don't regret getting it.
Sent from my iPad On Apr 2, 2011, at 2:22 PM, Winterlight <[email protected]> wrote: > I am currently running a Quad Core 9650 at 3.45Ghz on a Asus Maximus Formula > II with 8GB of DDR2 800 that I built in August of 08. > > The rest of my components are good and don't require an upgrade > 85o watt Seasonic > two Sapphire 5770s > Intel SSD for boot and a 300GB Raptor plus a collection of data storage > drives. > > All running Win7Pro SP1 > > It does what I need and it does it well, but with all the excitement about > Sandy bridge it got me thinking about upgrading my motherboard, RAM and CPU > this summer, once all the problems shake out. Right now I am thinking about a > 2600K Sandy Bridge, with a ASUS Rampage III Formula and 16GB of RAM.... what > speed of RAM am I looking for? > > I use my PC for real work, day in and day out, and if I could just upgrade > the components without redoing everything I would be more inclined to upgrade > sooner rather then later. I am not interested in just getting benchmarks. My > question is will it matter... will I really be able to notice. I do video > editing, and encoding and I am sure I will be able to notice there, but > generally I encode over night so an hour here or there isn't a big deal to me. > > Am I looking at a noticeably gee whiz faster everything, or am I barely going > to notice in my day to day real world use? > thanks > w >
