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PeterRead

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About PeterRead

  • Birthday Apr 10, 1994

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  • Gender
    Male
  • Location
    Melbourne, Australia
  • Interests
    2D & 3D Art (Photoshop, 3DS Max, Maya), Sim Racing (rFactor, iRacing)
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  1. iRacing hands down! Have not played it in a while but it sure is the best racing simulator "game" out there.
  2. Do you guys think the 840 Pro is the best option in terms of SSD? Do you think it would impact performance much if I went to a Corsair, Kingston or Intel?
  3. Not quite, normally around 9-10gb out of my 12gb (I did purchase a 16Gb corsair kit but one of the DIMM's was fault and did not work). I'm thinking it's more or less my CPU, because rendering times in Premiere Pro aren't the best. For example, Premiere Pro renders a video into a 720x406 H.264 movie with 320kpbs AAC audio at about 1 sec video footage = 1 sec rendering time ratio, with an 8 thread/4 core CPU shouldn't that be a lot quicker? Would a switch to nVidia for GPU make a big difference (say for example I went with a GTX 780) instead of another 7950 in SLI for 2D and 3D work?
  4. Hello all, I am a gamer, 2D/3D artist and video creator/editor. I do all of these things on a regular basis and I would love feedback on an upgrade. I have a budget of $1000 maximum, but I don't need to spend all of it. I just need to upgrade what is necessary. Current Specs: Intel Core-i7 3820 CPU Asus P9X79 Motherboard Corsair 750W PSU AMD Radeon 7950 GPU OCZ Vertex 2 SSD WD Green 1.5TB Storage HDD 16GB Corsair Vengeance 1600mhz RAM Corsair Carbide 500R Case The machine is very good as is, but I'm looking for more performance. I'm thinking of upgrading to 64GB of Ram for video and 3D work, but not too sure how much performance gain I will see? (Programs are Premiere Pro and 3DS Max/Maya all in 64-bit on 64-bit Windows 7..) I'm also thinking of replacing my current OCZ SSD to a couple of Samsung 840 Pro 120gb SSD's, one for boot and another for programs/games. Would it be worth spending money on another CPU from the 2011 socket range to get better performance from Maya and Premiere Pro in particular? What sort of benefits might I be looking at the new Haswell CPU's over the 2011 range? Thanks for suggestions guys, appreciate it. Peace, xo
  5. iRacing or rFactor if you want a racing simulator.
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