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fionnm61793799
Inspiring
June 1, 2017
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System upgrades

  • June 1, 2017
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Hi there, Just about to commit to a new computer for editing on Premiere. Using a laptop at the moment, with plenty of go but a woeful graphics card. This is how the spec looks at the moment (apologies for the format issues with pasting!) I am on a fairly tight budget, but would be willing to spend an extra £100 or so if there were any obvious areas where a modest upgrade would improve performance.

Sorry. I'm a journalist rather than a pro editor, so delving into computer specs scares the pants off me.... especially when it means forking out my own money!

Processor (CPU)

Intel® Core™i7 Six Core Processor i7-6800K (3.4GHz) 15MB Cache

Motherboard

ASUS® X99-A II: ATX, USB 3.1, SATA 6 GB/s, RGB Ready

Memory (RAM)

16GB Corsair VENGEANCE DDR4 2133MHz (2 x 8GB)

Graphics Card

6GB NVIDIA GEFORCE GTX 1060 - DVI, HDMI, 3 x DP - GeForce GTX VR Ready!

FREE Rocket League with select GTX 10 Series GPUs!

1st Hard Disk

5TB SATA-III 3.5" HDD, 6GB/s, 7200RPM, 128MB CACHE

2nd Hard Disk

5TB SATA-III 3.5" HDD, 6GB/s, 7200RPM, 128MB CACHE

RAID

RAID 1 (MIRRORED VOLUME - 2 x same size & model HDD / SSD)

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    fionnm61793799Author
    Inspiring
    June 2, 2017

    Hey, thanks guys!

    Lots of food for though there. Really appreciate you taking the time. I did wonder about going for 1 SSD, and if RAID is of no real value then that makes perfect sense.

    Everything seems a little clearer this morning! (it is currently morning in Scotland) 

    Bill Gehrke
    Bill Gehrke
    Inspiring
    June 2, 2017

    Dump the antique hard disk drives and get SSD's.  If you are careful a $100 128 GB SATA III disk drive can be used for the boot drive with the OS and Applications.   Dump the RAID 1 it is of no real value.  You can use hard disk drives for backup and archiving.

    If it were my buy and the timing allowed, i would wait for the new X series processors available shortly and for instance the new 6-core i7-7800X is rumored to cost about $400.  This will be a longer lifetime product.  Estimated ETA is "summer".

      RoninEdits
      RoninEdits
      Inspiring
      June 2, 2017

      Bill Gehrke  wrote:

      If it were my buy and the timing allowed, i would wait for the new X series processors available shortly and for instance the new 6-core i7-7800X is rumored to cost about $400.  This will be a longer lifetime product.  Estimated ETA is "summer".

      is there any particular reason or feature of the intel that you would personally spend nearly 2x as much for maybe 15% more performance? and what do you mean by longer lifetime product? is intel extending x299 to more than the usual two cpu generations?

      Bill Gehrke
      Bill Gehrke
      Inspiring
      June 2, 2017

      Is $400 2x as much?

      If you go with X299 versus x99 which is going to give you more future upgradability for a longer lifetime?

      RoninEdits
      RoninEdits
      Inspiring
      June 1, 2017

      if money is tight, or just looking for best value, you might want to consider the amd ryzen cpu's. their 6 core and 8 core cpu's are around half the price of intel's. if you want intel, you might want to wait for their next release coming soon.

      as far the hardware list you have above goes:

      the ram should at least be ddr4-2400, but anything closer to ddr4-3000 would be better. the next gen intel cpu's should be ddr4-2666 default.

      it looks like you have two hdd's listed, it would be nice to have at least one ssd for os/apps and some cache.

      you also have raid 1 listed, if you are planning on using it for an automatic backup i would recommend against. backups need to be isolated from the source.

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