Difficult to know the mix of the work. Crunching video right now the all four cores of my 2500k at 100%, with corresponding CPU temps running high. If the vidcard is doing anything it hard to tell.
Sent from my iPad On Apr 2, 2011, at 4:35 PM, Joshua MacCraw <[email protected]> wrote: > 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 >>>
