- Oct 25, 2012
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Hi,
I have a friend running CS6 and I have a x58 board lying arround. Right now, I can grab him a i7 920 for about $100 and then OC it say about 3.3-3.5 since its an Zotac x58 and likely only a 212+. Another option would be to grab an 1155 board and run something like an i5 or AM3+ with FX6300/8350.
He's going to be mainly doing 2D rendering in After Effects and encoding with Premiere. Mainly wedding jobs and the like. Maybe some 3d in the future.
Primary costs are the biggest concern (power being secondary [6-10 cents a kilowatt]) but how much more speed will using a newer arch/socket give him? Will saving up for an Xeon E3/i7 be worth it?
Right now he's running an i3 on an H55 @3.3ghz.
Thanks!
I have a friend running CS6 and I have a x58 board lying arround. Right now, I can grab him a i7 920 for about $100 and then OC it say about 3.3-3.5 since its an Zotac x58 and likely only a 212+. Another option would be to grab an 1155 board and run something like an i5 or AM3+ with FX6300/8350.
He's going to be mainly doing 2D rendering in After Effects and encoding with Premiere. Mainly wedding jobs and the like. Maybe some 3d in the future.
Primary costs are the biggest concern (power being secondary [6-10 cents a kilowatt]) but how much more speed will using a newer arch/socket give him? Will saving up for an Xeon E3/i7 be worth it?
Right now he's running an i3 on an H55 @3.3ghz.
Thanks!
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