Help on new build

[TheZinex]

Hey so this is my first time posting on the forum, and i been watching Linus for ages. but anyways i could really use some help with a new personal project i'm working on about what hardware to chose. 

 

im building a new rig and im looking at gaming heavily But also a lot of video editing and rendering.. 

 

i have got my GPU sorted (GTX 680 classified 4GB 1.1 GHz core clock 6GHz memory clock - this will be overclocked considerably)

 

but unsure whether to get [i7 3770K @ 3.5] or [FX-8350 8 core @4.0GHz] so from there i can decide on a motherboard and finally chose between a windowed 500R with water-cooling on show, or 500R with closed case with H100I's and less show off motherboard(probably cheaper) 

 

so what im asking is, do i go for the Intel or AMD CPU I've talked about? remembering this is for gaming and video editing

 

and the second question is do i cheap out on motherboard and go non-windowed case, or or go for a nicer motherboard and go out on water-cooling? also which would cool better, H100I's on cpu and gpu, or a full water circuit 

 

 

im just rambling on now, with the cost of the nice motherboard and full water circuit i could probably get another GTX 680 or pocket the extra cash 

[Shd0w2]

Erm.. budget? Use? Also,  why are you going with last gen parts?

[TheZinex]

budget is around £1.3K for this one,

 

using last gen gpu mainly because i already have a gtx680 and im very happy with performance, unless i can find one for £250-300 that works better with same memory? what new gen components would you suggest? 

 

use is gaming mainly but also video editing and rendering 

 

thankyou

[wng_kingsley7]

budget is around £1.3K for this one,

 

using last gen gpu mainly because i already have a gtx680 and im very happy with performance, unless i can find one for £250-300 that works better with same memory? what new gen components would you suggest? 

 

use is gaming mainly but also video editing and rendering 

 

thankyou

You could get a R9 290 to replace your GTX 680.

@TheZinex will you be salvaging any parts from your current pc?

 

Hey! Welcome to the Linus tech tips forum.

[jakkuh_t]

Hey so this is my first time posting on the forum, and i been watching Linus for ages. but anyways i could really use some help with a new personal project i'm working on about what hardware to chose. 

 

im building a new rig and im looking at gaming heavily But also a lot of video editing and rendering.. 

 

i have got my GPU sorted (GTX 680 classified 4GB 1.1 GHz core clock 6GHz memory clock - this will be overclocked considerably)

 

but unsure whether to get [i7 3770K @ 3.5] or [FX-8350 8 core @4.0GHz] so from there i can decide on a motherboard and finally chose between a windowed 500R with water-cooling on show, or 500R with closed case with H100I's and less show off motherboard(probably cheaper) 

 

so what im asking is, do i go for the Intel or AMD CPU I've talked about? remembering this is for gaming and video editing

 

and the second question is do i cheap out on motherboard and go non-windowed case, or or go for a nicer motherboard and go out on water-cooling? also which would cool better, H100I's on cpu and gpu, or a full water circuit 

 

 

im just rambling on now, with the cost of the nice motherboard and full water circuit i could probably get another GTX 680 or pocket the extra cash 

Defiantly go with the 3770k (Upgrading to a 4770k would be even better ) 

[RubyRoks]

Get an i7 4770K and a good MoBo.

[TheZinex]

thankyou for suggestion

 

the clock speed of a GTX 680 is 1111 MHz on a R9 290 its only 1000 MHz?   is the R9 290 worth £90 more? 

[TheZinex]

Defiantly go with the 3770k (Upgrading to a 4770k would be even better ) 

i was thinking the 4 extra cores would be faster for video rendering?  

[Leonsst]

i was thinking the 4 extra cores would be faster for video rendering?

 

Depends on the program. And RAM is pretty important as well

[TheZinex]

thankyou for suggestion

 

the clock speed of a GTX 680 is 1111 MHz on a R9 290 its only 1000 MHz?   is the R9 290 worth £90 more? 

just looked into it more:  4GB EVGA GTX 680 Classified, 28nm, PCIe 3.0, 6008MHz GDDR5, GPU 1111MHz, Boost 1176MHz, Cores 1536 = £250 4GB Asus Radeon R9 290 DirectCU II OC, 28nm, 5040MHz GDDR5, GPU 1000MHz, 2560 Streams = £320

 

 

[TheZinex]

Depends on the program. And RAM is pretty important as well

i will have 16GB 2400MHz ram 

 

using sony vegas, photoshop, blender and cinema 4D (also unity as i do develop some mini-games sometimes) 

[Recon-UK]

PCPartPicker part list / Price breakdown by merchant / Benchmarks

 

CPU:  Intel Core i7-4770K 3.5GHz Quad-Core Processor  (£233.99 @ Aria PC) 

CPU Cooler:  Noctua NH-D15 82.5 CFM CPU Cooler  (£75.02 @ Scan.co.uk) 

Motherboard:  Gigabyte GA-Z97X-GAMING 7 ATX LGA1150 Motherboard  (£130.76 @ Scan.co.uk) 

Memory:  Corsair Vengeance LP 16GB (4 x 4GB) DDR3-2133 Memory  (£145.23 @ Dabs) 

Storage:  Crucial M550 1TB 2.5" Solid State Disk  (£339.26 @ Scan.co.uk) 

Video Card:  Asus Radeon R9 280X 3GB DirectCU II Video Card  (£229.99 @ Novatech) 

Case:  Corsair 300R ATX Mid Tower Case  (£59.87 @ Aria PC) 

Power Supply:  XFX ProSeries 450W 80+ Bronze Certified ATX Power Supply  (£35.34 @ Scan.co.uk) 

Total: £1249.46

(Prices include shipping, taxes, and discounts when available.)

(Generated by PCPartPicker 2014-05-24 21:28 BST+0100)

 

 

Fixed memory issue.

[TheZinex]

thankyou!

 

 now only think to decide is H100i's closed case(2 side fans) or water-cooling circuit on show (2 side fans lost) , im sorry but i defiantly want 500R case

 

i can modify the GPU to accept the h100i  

[TheZinex]

what about this build guys? http://gyazo.com/0200a11ad48ee44a3d9828afb9be867e or could be I7 3770K version once ive looked deeper into graphs and stuff about how good they are in my applications

 

or this build without the H100i's and watercooling circuit and windowed case? 

 

or even this with two GTX 680's? sorry readon, like the cuda cores and i like this GPu as ive used and overlcocked many before 

 

thankyou for previous help tho guys