"PS9" (PS9)
04/08/2016 at 09:26 • Filed to: None
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"PS9" (PS9)
04/08/2016 at 09:26 • Filed to: None | 3
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My shit’s older than the Obama administration, so this upgrade is looooooooooong overdue. Core i5 skylake, 16GB DDR4 RAM and a slick mobo for now, Major GPU upgrade for later. Depends on whether or not !!!error: Indecipherable SUB-paragraph formatting!!! or !!!error: Indecipherable SUB-paragraph formatting!!! is better.
scoob
> PS9
04/08/2016 at 09:30 |
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PS9
> scoob
04/08/2016 at 09:31 |
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I’m happy that you and Vidian have found love with each other, but...this is kind of excessive.
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> PS9
04/08/2016 at 09:32 |
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Did this awhile ago, added another nvme ssd and swapped the r9 390 8GB fopr a 980Ti classified. On the fence if I should SLi or just upgrade to the next gen gpu. 980Ti is like $70 off today over on newegg
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scoob
> PS9
04/08/2016 at 09:36 |
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RamblinRover Luxury-Yacht
> PS9
04/08/2016 at 09:38 |
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I’m in the middle of an upgrade to an i5 Broadwell. 8 gigs so far, soon to be 16, then 32. I hadn’t had a serious desktop upgrade since ~2005. I’m going with workstation graphics, though - Quadro K1200 4 gig.
JGrabowMSt
> PS9
04/08/2016 at 09:38 |
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Core i* series processors are so cute.
Nibby
> PS9
04/08/2016 at 09:43 |
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SSD?
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PS9
> JGrabowMSt
04/08/2016 at 09:49 |
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Nice! If you regularly run applications that will saturate that many cores. Consumer-level stuff wouldn’t see the benefit though beyond 4P/8L, though.
spanfucker retire bitch
> JGrabowMSt
04/08/2016 at 09:49 |
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2Ghz? Now that’s adorable.
I sure hope all of your programs use all 12 cores all of the time, because that is some horrible single-threaded performance.
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JGrabowMSt
> PS9
04/08/2016 at 10:03 |
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Yes, I actually do not use it on a daily basis because my laptop (i7/512gb SSD/16gb RAM) is adequate for most day to day tasks (running a virtual machine, remote access to other machines, DSP programming).
This desktop was built to get me through college, and it did so very well. I was a TV/Digital Media major, so it was built for video editing, motion graphics design and being able to render shit out fast. I was a commuter student, so I couldn’t be up all night waiting for a project to finish, I needed to know it was going to be finished on time. I’ll be upgrading to 8 or 10 core CPUs probably in a year (along with bumping up to 2.6ghz or so) because I am starting to get into a lot more video editing again, and I have even less time to complete projects than I did in college.
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JGrabowMSt
> spanfucker retire bitch
04/08/2016 at 10:12 |
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Yeah, it idles low because I don’t want a loud computer. Throttles up to 2.5ghz when needed, but it renders video files a hell of a lot faster than my old Q9400/8gb RAM did.
240gb SSD inside, along with a few other drives for storing projects. Premiere works great with all the cores, I don’t need a 3.7ghz machine because this will render most codecs very near to realtime (10 minute projects export in about 11-12 minutes). Pro Tools also makes fantastic use of all the resources now, but I’ll need to upgrade to the latest version soon. Maybe I can pull strings with my old boss at Avid again...
As I mentioned in my reply to PS9, this was built to get me through college because I was a commuter student. I try to avoid it, but this will run CAD quite well, along with also the CS6 master collection (Premiere Pro, After Effects, Speedgrade, and Illustrator mostly). It’s not a machine I just park in front of all day to watch youtube videos, it’s very specifically a work computer, and I only use it for actual work.
My laptop (i7/16gb RAM/512gb SSD) handles the daily work of DSP programming, virtual machines and remote desktop work. When I have to just do network troubleshooting, I have a netbook I use for that, and if I’m just farting around on the internet, I have a Chromebook that gets the job done quite well. I rarely use the netbook because my main laptop is almost always with me, but the Chromebook is for when I don’t want to lug around an expensive laptop I can’t replace easily.
TheHondaBro
> PS9
04/08/2016 at 10:52 |
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y u no i7 haswell?
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> TheHondaBro
04/08/2016 at 12:19 |
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Skylake is better than Haswell. Si5 does about as well as an Hi7 in a lot of the benchmarks Speaking of that, the difference in general between an i5 and an i7 is something like ten percent, whenever there is one. For some of the things I’ll be using it for, there’s no difference at all. Its nice to open the system status screen and see 8 cores chugging away, but that by itself isn’t worth the $100 premium attached to it.
Viggen9er3
> scoob
04/08/2016 at 14:30 |
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Use to be like that, then saw that this gen AMD is better for the price.