With the video cards doing the heavy lifting on encodes there is more
benefit from them than CPU anyway.
On Apr 2, 2011 12:33 PM, "Anthony Q. Martin" <[email protected]> wrote:
> 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
>>
