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Hi guys

So, my old PC gave up on me last week and I am now forced to work on a small laptop. Moving from a Core i7 3.0Ghz processor with 16GB Ram to a 3 year old Acer entry level laptop is killing me!

I have decided to take a break from work and start building a new PC for my requirements over the next few months. I am looking at building a decent desktop that will suit my needs. What do I use the desktop for? I work with large data files, often 1-8GB in size. I am into video editing and converting and then design and the not-so-often gaming. So, I basically need a desktop that can be switched on at 06:00 the morning and work right through until midnight, each day performing these type of tasks for me.

I just made my first purchases - A case and motherboard and now awaiting arrival. I will soon continue to purchase the next products.

I just need some help from people who knows more than me in regards to the equipment I am interested in. I will appreciate any feedback.

What I already have:

Case

As for my box I settled on and purchased the Corsair Graphite 760T ATX Case - White Windowed

Motherboard

For my motherboard I chose the Gigabyte Z97X-UD3H ATX Motherboard - Socket 1150


What I will get next

My next purchases will be the following:

Intel Core i7-4790K 4.4 GHZ LGA 1150 Processor
Corsair Professional Series Platinum AX860i 860W High Performance Fully Modular Digital Power Supply
Corsair Vengeance 8GB DDR3-1600MHz Module

* Please note this is not the last I need to purchase, I will be adding more to this list, but this is just the next immediate products I need to buy (the more expensive ones).

I would like to get some advise on whether the products I chose are correct for the system I intend to build. Also, would there be anything else you would recommend I add or do?
 
Are you going to overclock? If not chuck the "k" processor and get a normal one.

Also why are you going for such an old gen of mobo and CPU? The mobo at least supports 5th gen so rather go for an i7-5xxx at least, if not an entire 6th gen setup.

Oh and get 16Gb RAM and an SSD
 
ScottulusMaximus said:
Are you going to overclock? If not chuck the "k" processor and get a normal one.

Also why are you going for such an old gen of mobo and CPU? The mobo at least supports 5th gen so rather go for an i7-5xxx at least, if not an entire 6th gen setup.

Oh and get 16Gb RAM and an SSD
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ScottulusMaximus said:
Are you going to overclock? If not chuck the "k" processor and get a normal one.

Also why are you going for such an old gen of mobo and CPU? The mobo at least supports 5th gen so rather go for an i7-5xxx at least, if not an entire 6th gen setup.

Oh and get 16Gb RAM and an SSD
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Thanks ScottulusMaximus, yes, I took the board since it supported both 4th and 5th Gen processors. I will look at the 5th Gen. My initial problem was that the 5th generation was not readily available at places like Esquire, Com-x, etc. I think I saw one, a 3.7GHz, if I remember correctly. But, I would like something offering more than 4GHz if possible.

I should have mentioned, I intent to stack all 4 Memory slots with a 8GB RAM modules, making up 32GB RAM.
 
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Toothless said:
Thanks ScottulusMaximus, yes, I took the board since it supported both 4th and 5th Gen processors. I will look at the 5th Gen.

I should have mentioned, I intent to stack all 4 Memory slots with a 8GB RAM modules, making up 32GB RAM.
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Ya 32GB should be plenty;)

Ah you've already bought the mobo, definitely get 5th gen then otherwise your new PC will be 3 years old before you even start

EDIT: Hmmmmmmm, appears I'm out of the loop, the 5th gen range of i7's is very small

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I'm afraid that mobo was a bad buy and will force you back to 4th gen... Should've gone 6th gen, can you return it?
 
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ScottulusMaximus said:
Ya 32GB should be plenty;)

Ah you've already bought the mobo, definitely get 5th gen then otherwise your new PC will be 3 years old before you even start
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True. I will look around a bit more for the 5th Gen.

The only reason I chose the mobo I did was that it basically offered me everything I needed, it supported new Gen processors too and it was one of the better rated mobos when I looked at the reviews. The pricing was also reasonable at R3.3k
 
Toothless said:
True. I will look around a bit more for the 5th Gen.

The only reason I chose the mobo I did was that it basically offered me everything I needed, it supported new Gen processors too and it was one of the better rated mobos when I looked at the reviews. The pricing was also reasonable at R3.3k
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ScottulusMaximus said:
Check my ninja edit
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Thanks, yeah, I see that one is limited with the i7 range 5th gen processors. Although, the 3.8GHz is not too bad (besides, my previous i7 was a 3.3 or 3.4 Ghz if I remember correctly). It may be an option.

However, how does the 4th gen 4.4Ghz i7 perform? Is it really that outdated - compared to 5th and 6th gen?
 
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Toothless said:
Thanks, yeah, I see that one is limited with the i7 range 5th gen processors. Although, the 3.8GHz is not too bad (besides, my previous i7 was a 3.3 or 3.4 Ghz if I remember correctly). It may be an option.

However, how does the 4th gen 4.4Ghz i7 perform? Is it really that outdated - compared to 5th and 6th gen?
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Well this:

http://www.tomshardware.com/answers/id-2655226/4790k-5820k-6700k-skylake.html

Seems to indicate that 4th gen is still fine if not as good as 6th gen BUT the 5820k has 6 cores which will help with your video editing massively

EDIT: but what actually broke on your previous PC? Because I'm in the market for an i7-3770k?
 
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ScottulusMaximus said:
Well this:

http://www.tomshardware.com/answers/id-2655226/4790k-5820k-6700k-skylake.html

Seems to indicate that 4th gen is still fine if not as good as 6th gen BUT the 5820k has 6 cores which will help with your video editing massively

EDIT: but what actually broke on your previous PC? Because I'm in the market for an i7-3770k?
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Well, to be honest, I am not sure. I started getting the feeling that my performance went down. I kept getting blue screens which had something to do with my RAM / memory management. I just could not work on it any longer.

But, hey, I will be more than happy to give you my processor and you can see if it works for you.

Just let me know and I will pop it over to you.
 
Toothless said:
Well, to be honest, I am not sure. I started getting the feeling that my performance went down. I kept getting blue screens which had something to do with my RAM / memory management. I just could not work on it any longer.

But, hey, I will be more than happy to give you my processor and you can see if it works for you.

Just let me know and I will pop it over to you.
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PM sent!

Here's a link comparing the 5820 to the 4790:

http://www.anandtech.com/bench/product/1260?vs=1320
 
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Toothless said:
Cool, thanks.

It appears the 4th Gen does better in most tests though, well at least for those I need it for.
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If you do go for fourth gen there's a shop in kuilsrivier in the cape that has a used 4790 for R2800.
I bought my i7-2600 from them a while ago so i can sort of vouch for them.

Computer World on gumtree, look for the cpu advert.
 
If you are working with large data files and video then a storage SSD can make a difference. Something like a 0.5 TB for the files you are currently using.

It would be worthwhile to see if your video editing software supports GPU processing for a performance boost. If so, then the correct GPU would help.

There is a ranking of PSUs on Toms Hardware that could be useful to you: http://www.tomshardware.com/forum/id-2547993/psu-tier-list.html.
 
garyc said:
If you are working with large data files and video then a storage SSD can make a difference. Something like a 0.5 TB for the files you are currently using.

It would be worthwhile to see if your video editing software supports GPU processing for a performance boost. If so, then the correct GPU would help.

There is a ranking of PSUs on Toms Hardware that could be useful to you: http://www.tomshardware.com/forum/id-2547993/psu-tier-list.html.
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Thanks Gary

Yes, I will definately be looking at a GPU as well. Also, at the very least 1 or 2 SSDs for my working files and probably two 3.5" 4-6TB drives for the OS and the other for my larger movie files.
 
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