cpu upgrade from i3-540

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tuan209

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Hi Guys,

It's about time I upgrade my computer as my parent's need a new one, and I just want something new.

Currently I have I3-540 with a H55N-USB3 mobo and 2gb of ram. The combo with my SSD is all I really needed until I recently got into video editing. I can feel the sluggishness while running Adobe Premiere CC.

Other than a little video editing, I dont play games or demand much from computer.

Should I go with the newer I3s or I5s? Or is the more budget friendly AMDs all I need?

Tuan
 
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coffeejunkee

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For rendering videos an i5 would be preferable. Actually an i7 would be, but those are pricy. An AMD apu would likely lack some power but an FX series could be interesting. But they use quite a bit of electricity. You also need more ram, 8GB would probably be fine. Just 2GB is most likely the reason for sluggish behavior now.

You should also look into cuda acceleration for Premiere, in that case you will need an Nvidia vidcard. I'm not sure which cards are supported at the moment but there are hacks available to make unsupported cards work anyway. You don't need a very fancy card, it's just for accelerating the workspace. Something like a GTX750 would work fine.
 
tarmc

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can likely get an i7 860 for around 100, bump up to 8g ram and should see a huge improvement
 
Denithor

Denithor

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tarmc said:
can likely get an i7 860 for around 100, bump up to 8g ram and should see a huge improvement
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Reading fail. He's planning to give his current system to parents, not just upgrade parts on it.

So, starting with a whole new system, currently you'd want to go for either an i5-4590 ($200) or i7 4790 ($315, extra threads actually help with video editing). You will actually be better off with a non-K chip as these have the whole set of features enabled (AVX2 & TSX) which may actually become important for video editing as software catches up with hardware.

Go with a Z87 motherboard ($100).

I'll second the 8GB RAM as the minimum for a video editing machine.

And also the nVidia video card. The GTX 750 ($125) or the GTX 750 Ti ($150) will happily handle all of your acceleration needs.
 
sm625

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Newegg has a whole bunch of Dell precision servers with 6 core xeons (X5650) and 12GB of RAM for under $500. The IPC wont be as high as a modern i5 but it will have significantly more raw encoding power and will cost less for the overall system.
 
Arachnotronic

Arachnotronic

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tuan209 said:
Hi Guys,

It's about time I upgrade my computer as my parent's need a new one, and I just want something new.

Currently I have I3-540 with a H55N-USB3 mobo and 2gb of ram. The combo with my SSD is all I really needed until I recently got into video editing. I can feel the sluggishness while running Adobe Premiere CC.

Other than a little video editing, I dont play games or demand much from computer.

Should I go with the newer I3s or I5s? Or is the more budget friendly AMDs all I need?

Tuan
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Go with an i5 4430...should last you for years.
 
Bubbleawsome

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I would go for a 4670/4670k with cheap mobo from microcenter. $244 for one heck of an upgrade from a 450. At 4.0Ghz it doubles my old i7 870.
 
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Actually, for video encoding/editing you could look at the Xeon 1245v3. It gives you the 8 threads of the i7's at about the price of an i5. Works in pretty much all standard desktop boards, despite the Xeon moniker.

For video encoding, don't underestimate how much extra performance HT can provide... :)
 
Denithor

Denithor

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sm625 said:
Newegg has a whole bunch of Dell precision servers with 6 core xeons (X5650) and 12GB of RAM for under $500. The IPC wont be as high as a modern i5 but it will have significantly more raw encoding power and will cost less for the overall system.
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Not seeing these, have a link?

This would be an outstanding deal if correct. Six physical cores would trump 8HT cores any day for video work, even beyond the improved IPC of the Haswell chips.
 
crashtech

crashtech

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I think a DIYer building today with those requirements should look hard at a new H97 board with an i5-4690. I don't advocate lots of slower cores except for a machine that has a dedicated purpose that will load them all the time, otherwise the newer platform with much better IPC will provide a superior experience overall for general use.
 
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