It's come down to these 4 choices.
Firstly, I haven't built an Intel machine since the Socket 370 PIII 933 was the top of the line. Even better, that was the last machine I ever built until just a few months ago when I built my sig machine. Anyways.
I am going to be getting back into video/audio editing. I started off with Premiere, I was really good at it and I'm sure things have changed a bit since then and I know my rendering times will be better than with that old 933 haha.
First question though - (I should probably be asking this particular one in the AMD section but oh well, also I'm not a sole supporter of either company, I just like building things.) I'm going to be running Premiere, After Effects, probably Photoshop and some audio editing stuff and eventually DVD/Blu-Ray editing software. I'm sure my sig rig would suffice to get by doing this but would it be as efficient as a 2500/2600k? Everything I've read points to "Yeah it'd work BUT..."
I'm not too concerned with overclocking this build that much (If I even do this build). Yes, I will do it but I'm sure I won't have to go very high. The build will also probably be put into a Sunbeam Ultra tech station. I haven't decided. So that will give me some cooling and so will the H70 I used to use. I'm not trying to do major upgrades or make it look pretty like my sig rig. Pff, let's face it, I'm sure once I get it and start building I'm gonna wanna make it better haha.
So from my brief reading over some of these threads, it seems for what I want to do that 2600k would be my best bet because of HT. Is this true? I do play games but I can do that on this machine I have now so I'm not too concerned with that. But if I had the 2500k, am I going to see a noticeable performance decrease not going with the 2600?
Now for the motherboards, ASUS or Gigabyte? I've watched videos on both boards and that's probably as extensive as that research goes. I'm sure I'd be happy with either of them. I've only ever used ASUS and Gigabyte. Originally for my sig machine I wanted to go with ASUS but went with Gigabyte cus of $$$. Now I'm kinda wishing I went with ASUS for it so I'm thinking I might try ASUS for this build if I do it.
I've got some of the equipment I need coming in this week so I guess I'll be doing some tests and rendering/encoding and see how well this machine does and maybe results here and see if I can do better.
Any help, suggestions, flames, info, links, other threads etc, etc are welcome. Thank you!
Firstly, I haven't built an Intel machine since the Socket 370 PIII 933 was the top of the line. Even better, that was the last machine I ever built until just a few months ago when I built my sig machine. Anyways.
I am going to be getting back into video/audio editing. I started off with Premiere, I was really good at it and I'm sure things have changed a bit since then and I know my rendering times will be better than with that old 933 haha.
First question though - (I should probably be asking this particular one in the AMD section but oh well, also I'm not a sole supporter of either company, I just like building things.) I'm going to be running Premiere, After Effects, probably Photoshop and some audio editing stuff and eventually DVD/Blu-Ray editing software. I'm sure my sig rig would suffice to get by doing this but would it be as efficient as a 2500/2600k? Everything I've read points to "Yeah it'd work BUT..."
I'm not too concerned with overclocking this build that much (If I even do this build). Yes, I will do it but I'm sure I won't have to go very high. The build will also probably be put into a Sunbeam Ultra tech station. I haven't decided. So that will give me some cooling and so will the H70 I used to use. I'm not trying to do major upgrades or make it look pretty like my sig rig. Pff, let's face it, I'm sure once I get it and start building I'm gonna wanna make it better haha.
So from my brief reading over some of these threads, it seems for what I want to do that 2600k would be my best bet because of HT. Is this true? I do play games but I can do that on this machine I have now so I'm not too concerned with that. But if I had the 2500k, am I going to see a noticeable performance decrease not going with the 2600?
Now for the motherboards, ASUS or Gigabyte? I've watched videos on both boards and that's probably as extensive as that research goes. I'm sure I'd be happy with either of them. I've only ever used ASUS and Gigabyte. Originally for my sig machine I wanted to go with ASUS but went with Gigabyte cus of $$$. Now I'm kinda wishing I went with ASUS for it so I'm thinking I might try ASUS for this build if I do it.
I've got some of the equipment I need coming in this week so I guess I'll be doing some tests and rendering/encoding and see how well this machine does and maybe results here and see if I can do better.
Any help, suggestions, flames, info, links, other threads etc, etc are welcome. Thank you!