Workstation/Gaming Upgrades 800$

[MisterHelldorado]

Hello everyone! I am finally upgrading my good old PC rig. Right now the specs are as it follows:

 

CPU: AMD Phenom X6 II 1055t OC'ed at 3.6Ghz

Motherboard: ASUS MA487TD-USB3

RAM: 12GB DDR3 (2X2gb + 2X4gb) 1333mhz

CPU Cooler: Corsair H50

Storage:

-120GB SSD Patriot Wildfire

-240GB SSD Samsung 840 EVO

-1TB WD Caviar Black

-3TB MyBook USB3

GPU: GTX 680 4GB

Case: Corsair C70 with 6 AP123's fans

 

 

I've started a little video production company at te beginning of the summer and it's starting to pick up some speed and my brother is tired of me always hogging the PC to make videos. So here's the deal, we're upgrading our main rig to make it a more worthy editing and gaming PC and we plan on switching the old parts to an other case laying around in my place to have a less powerful PC that I can edit on all the time. Long story short, we want to end up with a moderate PC that I can use all the time for my video work and one much more powerful that we can game and edit videos on also. What would be the best things to spend our 800$ budget on??

 

Thanks!!

[SAV1OUR]

4790k and a z97 mobo and your set 

[Clyne]

i would upgrade the cpu and mobo to a i7 4790k and a z97 board, everything else is fine.

@SAV1OUR 

ninja'd

[MisterHelldorado]

i would upgrade the cpu and mobo to a i7 4790k and a z97 board, everything else is fine.

@SAV1OUR 

ninja'd

 

 

4790k and a z97 mobo and your set 

 

Really? That's it? Am I going to see that big of an improvement?

[SAV1OUR]

Really? That's it? Am I going to see that big of an improvement?

hell yes, the 4790k would stomp your set up 

[MisterHelldorado]

hell yes, the 4790k would stomp your set up 

okok hahaha

[Clyne]

Really? That's it? Am I going to see that big of an improvement?

you are, hyper threading will be a huge improvement, you already have a ssd, that gpu that is a equivalent to a gtx 770 so your fine.  

[MisterHelldorado]

you are, hyper threading will be a huge improvement, you already have a ssd, that gpu that is a equivalent to a gtx 770 so your fine.

nice to know hahaa

[MisterHelldorado]

Xeon 1230v3 or 4790k? I can get more RAM if I go with the Xeon since it's less expensive.

[Clyne]

Xeon 1230v3 or 4790k? I can get more RAM if I go with the Xeon since it's less expensive.

the 4790k has a unlocked multiplier, so you can overclock the i7 while you can't overclock the exon(you can but only a few hundred mhz) 

[MisterHelldorado]

the 4790k has a unlocked multiplier, so you can overclock the i7 while you can't overclock the exon(you can but only a few hundred mhz) 

oohhh okok I see. Is there any difference in stability and workstation feature between the i7 and the Xeon?

 

my second rig would end like this:

CPU: AMD Phenom X6 II 1055t OC'ed at 3.6Ghz

Motherboard: ASUS MA487TD-USB3

RAM: 12GB DDR3 (2X2gb + 2X4gb) 1333mhz

CPU Cooler: Corsair H50

Storage:

-500GB WD

GPU: hd 5770

Case: Coolermaster N200

 

how's that sound?

[Clyne]

oohhh okok I see. Is there any difference in stability and workstation feature between the i7 and the Xeon?

 

my second rig would end like this:

CPU: AMD Phenom X6 II 1055t OC'ed at 3.6Ghz

Motherboard: ASUS MA487TD-USB3

RAM: 12GB DDR3 (2X2gb + 2X4gb) 1333mhz

CPU Cooler: Corsair H50

Storage:

-500GB WD

GPU: hd 5770

Case: Coolermaster N200

 

how's that sound?

difference would be i7 has a igpu, while the xeon dosn't, the i7 is clocked at a higher speed, while the xeon is clocked at a lower speed, and the xeon has a lower tdp while the i7 has a higher tdp

[MisterHelldorado]

difference would be i7 has a igpu, while the xeon dosn't, the i7 is clocked at a higher speed, while the xeon is clocked at a lower speed, and the xeon has a lower tdp while the i7 has a higher tdp

Ok great! I'm going with the i7. Thanks everyone!!