Where to go from here

[Dicehave123456]

 

1. Budget & Location

I'm in the USA and I'm Ballin on a budget of somewhere in the $300 ball park.

2. Aim

Using my money from tax season coming up, I'd like to be able to get my rig in Video Editing again and reboot my old YouTube channel. It would have to be able to render 1080 video and FX like intros/outros on its own in a reasonable amount of time (say 4-5 hours tops for 10min worth of content)

Things I'm already going to buy with part of the money would be a capture card with HDMI capabilities so I can get live feeds from consoles without the use of console derived twitch feeds with lackluster quality versus what I can actually broadcast via the PC.

 

3. Monitors

I have my 49" TV setup as my monitor, an older Vizio that's 1080p at 60hz. Not really jonesing for new peripherals or monitor anytime soon

 

5. Why are you upgrading?

I've already begun to tinker with the idea and tried to make some test clips, and the current render times in Vegas I'm getting are around my desired time frame but for something in the ball park of a min or so. So it's currently poop.

 

Specs are as follows

 

CPU: i7 930 @ 2.8GHz With Zalman 110 TF copper Heatsink (Exact model number I don't have)

RAM: 8gb of triple channel rando @533MHz (8-8-8-20)

MOBO: SuperMicro X8ST3 Single socket server board

GPU: EVGA 750ti 2gb

 

The other stuff I assume really doesn't matter, I know I'm going to need more storage as a part of this venture, but I figure my 480GB Kingston SSD and WD Red 2tb will get the job done for the time being.

 

 

Just kind of a general spitball thread really, some people have told me my setup with a newer board should be fine for a more efficient processor involved. Looked at that route too and hence why I've set the bar at $300 USD because I know I can get a i7 2500k and Mobo combo for around that price currently. But then I'd be SOL for a Capture device since most of the ones that are add in cards are somewhere in the ball park of 150-200USD

 

Let me hear what you have to say, time isn't an issue here as its not something I'm doing all the time or in dire need of, and the only thing I really use the setup for now is for a PS2 Emulator while I'm fixing up a new case for my First Gen PS3 since my roommate is a clumsy baboon

[kalious78]

u aint getting a mobo, cpu + cap card for $300 for encoding

 

try hitting a cpu n mobo upgrade atm n adding the cap card at a later date. I'm not even sure you could do that as ud likely need new ram aswell unless you got an older sku

 

might be an idea just to buy bit by bit as u can afford it.

[Cracklingice]

1. Where is 4?

2. What applications do you intend to run?  Cuda accelerated means a good GPU (Nvidia) could help a lot.

3. Now that I see you want a capture card for 100 to 200, it seems that's about all you really can do with the budget you listed.

5. Actually since you have the board you do, you could drop a top of it's generation 6 core xeon on there for around 150 and then the other half of the budget on the capture card. http://www.ebay.com/itm/232036491077  The W3690 or X5690 would be the same chip for your use, but since the X5690 supports 2 chip configurations they're more expensive. 

[Dicehave123456]

Sorry, I was just copy pasting the layout for the info on the thread type lol

 

But yeah I know everything wont be done in one swoop, I just need enough to get the stuff rolling. Mainly would be recording old PS2 games for right now with the retro series I'm working on, but the render times are killing me. I know a better processor and card will get me a long ways, but considering I'm still running an LGA1366 X58 socket I figured a board and processor may be the way to go first and as previously said just going piece by piece.

But like I said, its mainly just a spit ball here, just trying to decide what I'm going to buy first to really get the ball rolling

[Cracklingice]

As I said, a capture card and that xeon processor would probably be the best place for you to start.  Possibly more ram as well.

That xeon processor will give you 50% more simultaneous compute as it's a 6 core 12 thread part and also around 600mhz faster per core.

[Dicehave123456]

3 hours ago, Cracklingice said:

As I said, a capture card and that xeon processor would probably be the best place for you to start.  Possibly more ram as well.

That xeon processor will give you 50% more simultaneous compute as it's a 6 core 12 thread part and also around 600mhz faster per core.

Considering that, should I invest in a non Xeon that can overclock or would that be wasting my time? The cooler is at least rated for 200 watts considering I idle now at 35c and peak somewhere around 56-60c during the whole process. I know it's kinda being picky with a limited budget, but I also don't want to see my computer run a better processor and not be able to cool it properly.

 

A key thing to note would be I'm running the whole build in a server rack mountable case as well. Something I could do so that way I'm getting everything ready would be processor and spend the rest of the 150 on a really nice Dark Rock TF that will just barely fit in my case with the middle fan only installed, and then get a nice triple channel kit of rando ram. I know this socket type maxes out at like 12gb of ram or something dumb like that though

[Cracklingice]

990x is around 400+ USD.  Also the X5690 is overclockable, but might not have a multiplier that can be raised over it's default.  I have heard of that particular chip hitting 4.5ghz.  The motherboard you have may not support any form of overclocking anyway.  Also the board supports up to 24gb of ram.  The ram can be ecc or non ecc, but ecc only if you run a xeon.  The xeon also supports 1333mhz ram where the i7's only support 1066mhz ram (without overclock).

http://ark.intel.com/compare/41447,52585,52576,52586 to compare the current cpu with the 990x and the two nearly identical xeon counterparts.