Recent content by dishe

Ok- it doesn't have to match what I currently have? If I get something like 1600mhz ram, would it just run at 1333mhz because my other ram is? If I take out my current chips and replace them all, will the whole thing run at 1600? Or is the mobo limited to 1333, so it wouldn't matter anyway...

So, added the USB3 card, ordering SSD and and some RAM is next. Question: If I currently have 2 sticks of Nanya brand PC3-10600 1333MHz 4GB Non-ECC DDR3 (total of 8GB), since my board maxes out at 16, should I be looking at another 8GB of similar specs? Or should I be replacing everything with a...

Thanks for all your help, I'm revisiting this idea now that its been on a back burner for a few weeks. My biggest hesitation is in knowing that the actual computational render time is most effected by the CPU, which I'm not upgrading with this plan. The SSD and RAM will help improve the overall...

Your cost is what now?! I know corporate bulk buys get better deals, but OMG! Can they "overbuy" a unit or two or sell them under the table? ;)

Wow I am out of touch with processors. I kept reading that the 2600 holds up to later editions of the i7 so I sort of stopped following what else was coming out. The i5 6600 actually trumps my i7 though? That's news to me! Actual cost of the chip is cheap too, wonder if I can find any prebuilt...

Fair enough. Should I be focusing on a cpu upgrade then? Or is that also not going to make much difference unless I spend significantly more? I'm not really doing anything in 4k at the moment, but I'd like to know I can without choking. Then again, current hardware will be even cheaper when I...

I certainly appreciate that, thanks! For playback, yes- some decoding/encoding operations are more accelerated than others based on codec. But I'm not even talking about that- the GPU gets used for certain operations regardless of codecs involved, including scaling, deinterlacing, blending...

Interesting- this is not where I expected this conversation to go, but the GPU is absolutely in use for rendering on Premiere as of CS5.5. The benefits are mostly limited to rendering from that application, however- the rendering engine on Media Encoder, AE, and other products are surprisingly...

Ha! Fair enough. I did ramble and didn't mention at all what I wanted to spend. The truth is my budget is flexible. I was planning on dropping a couple of hundred to bring this box up to snuff, and then remembered that this box (and the one I owned before it) were refurbs or similar that I could...

Hoping I can get a collective brain-picking session going here! Let me start by saying I'm not a gamer (anymore). I work in media production and find myself finishing video edits at home, where my computer is starting to feel old and honestly act a little funny sometimes. So, I was thinking I...

Yes, its an OEM installation. I don't have an OEM system discs, except for some Dell varieties. Are you saying that a disc from another OEM will still work as long as I use the serial number for this one? Because I was under the impression that ISN'T the case. Maybe I heard wrong, but I feel...

Ok, dumb question (thanks for all your patience, guys)- I'm doing this to a Gateway box that didn't come with any OS re-installation discs. I created recovery discs from the utility that gateway pre-installs, however that appears to be more like a disc image. There is no OS installation by...

Interesting. What about page files and the like? I see some manufacturers are recommending turning that off, as it adds extra wear and tear to the drive, however Adobe's suite (especially After Effects and Premiere running in tandem) can easily gobble up all remaining RAM. Or is this less of...

Cool- Maybe I should give it a try. Meanwhile, I was about to start installing software on the new box. Should I migrate my current HD setup to the SSD, or should I stop installing stuff now, and start over on it? Also, are apps like Adobe's creative suite better suited for installation off...

I'm currently setting up an i7 box that came with a 1.5TB storage drive. I have an Intel X25-M G2 from last year that has been sitting on a shelf (long story- was a gift for a laptop but I eventually decided I needed more storage > more speed). I was thinking- wouldn't it be cool to use that...