College/Gaming rig.

marshbaboon · 24-06-2015 3:37pm #1

1. What is your budget? Flexible. Roughly around the 1k+ mark.

2. What will be the main purpose of the computer? Video editing, 3D rendering, game streaming/footage capture, gaming (including current & upcoming AAA releases).

3. Do you need a copy of Windows? No.

4. Can you use any parts from an old computer? No.

5. Do you need a monitor? No (current monitor is a 54" Sony Bravia).

5b. If no, what resolution is your current monitor and do you plan to upgrade in the near future? 1920x1080. No.

6. Do you need any peripherals? No. New mouse might be nice though.

7. Are you willing to try overclocking? Not initially.

8. How can you pay? Credit card/Laser.

9. When are you purchasing? Around September of this year.

10. If you need help building it, where are you based? Dublin North/City Centre (It's been 8 years since I built my current PC but should be fine).

Additional information: Starting a film production course in September. Need a machine mainly capable of handling all elements of tv & film post production including high end 3D rendering (Mainly after effects to begin with, but possibly something like Maya down the line).

It's been such a long time since I've done a build I'm a little bit unfamiliar with a lot of the hardware out there.

Thanks in advance.

frozenfrozen · 24-06-2015 3:38pm

september is too far away a lot will have changed by then id say look at a few other builds around here with the same budget and then replace all the components with whatever is new in september at the same price point

marshbaboon · 24-06-2015 3:45pm

frozenfrozen wrote: »

september is too far away a lot will have changed by then id say look at a few other builds around here with the same budget and then replace all the components with whatever is new in september at the same price point

When I say around September it'll have to be built by the first week in September at the latest ideally, so probably purchasing mid August.

Is there that much hardware scheduled for release in the next 2 months? Or is there any hardware scheduled for release that's worth waiting for?

frozenfrozen · 24-06-2015 4:04pm

ah no I'm only saying you'll just have to make sure you dont pick parts now and not check before september or whenever you're ordering, some things are bound to change nearly daily there is a better option in terms of price / performance.

won't be too difficult to find the best option, it'll be i7 for the hyperthreading since you're doing 3d rendering and video editing stuff (and not a xeon because you're playing games) 8gb of ram unless you know you'll definitely need more for whatever 3d stuff you're doing but you might be best off just getting 8gb with the view to adding 8 more if you ever need it.

Then it'll be a case of whatever the best gpu is at the time and if you want a capture card or to maybe go the route of just getting an nvidia card and using shadowplay to record or any of the other software solutions for recording and streaming. could probably get away with slightly lower end hardware all around if you got the right capture card so that you could have all the effort of capturing just outsourced to that card. I've no idea which would be the best option there so you might have a look at that yourself

14nm skylake intel stuff is due to come out Q3 of this year so that would be worth waiting for i'd imagine still though if you'd rather buy sooner or whatever it's no big deal, you could be waiting for something coming around the corner forever, at the end of the day you'll only be talking about 10% performance increase by waiting for the next generation of anything so its not much to worry about

Digital Solitude · 24-06-2015 4:09pm

Skylake will be out soon enough won't it Frozen? If not then no, nothing worth waiting for

frozenfrozen · 24-06-2015 4:28pm

Digital Solitude wrote: »

Skylake will be out soon enough won't it Frozen? If not then no, nothing worth waiting for

I think its going to be late august / early september and then into early 2016 for the -E ones with 10 cores 20 threads or whatever madness its going to have

would be worth waiting until then though I'd say

marshbaboon · 24-06-2015 4:29pm

I'd be more afraid of the i7 price taking a dive than losing out on getting the extra 10% performance. I can't imagine it's going to be more cost effective than going with the i7 & buying some cooling to overclock it down the line. I can afford to wait until mid August anyway to see what the story is.

I need to get 4 years out of it without an upgrade (apart from GPU or ram) so I think the i7 is more than enough. Streaming/capturing from the desktop is going to remain a secondary source of income & hopefully pay for some film equipment.

I'm on a Q6600 & GTX 260 at the moment that's on life support so basically anything is going to be an enormous upgrade.

Digital Solitude · 24-06-2015 4:41pm

Life support is right! I'll throw up a build in an hour or so if no one else steps in, just have a bit to finish up.

marshbaboon · 24-06-2015 5:02pm

Much appreciated lads. There's been some very helpful input.

Digital Solitude · 24-06-2015 6:41pm

frozenfrozen · 25-06-2015 10:14am

id say forget the capture card stuff would probably make sense if shadowplay or whatever wasn't an option

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