Posted: 1/3/2015 11:17:16 PM EDT
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I'm planning on upgrading my computer and TBH I don't know much about it, specifically what my options are because I don't know what's compatible with my current computer parts. I don't know stuff like what RAM would be best, i.e. I was doing some reading and didn't know stuff like x2 RAM is good because it can work concurrently or in parallel or whatever. If someone could give me some ideas I'd appreciate it.
Currently I have: Motherboard: ASUS P8P67 RAM: 8gb (4x2) 1600MHz, not sure of manufacturer Video card: EVGA NVIDIA GTX-580 Processor: i5 2500K I know for sure I'd like to upgrade to a SSD, and I'd also like to upgrade my RAM... just not sure what parts to buy. Thanks |
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Quoted: I'm planning on upgrading my computer and TBH I don't know much about it, specifically what my options are because I don't know what's compatible with my current computer parts. I don't know stuff like what RAM would be best, i.e. I was doing some reading and didn't know stuff like x2 RAM is good because it can work concurrently or in parallel or whatever. If someone could give me some ideas I'd appreciate it. Currently I have: Motherboard: ASUS P8P67 RAM: 8gb (4x2) 1600MHz, not sure of manufacturer Video card: EVGA NVIDIA GTX-580 Processor: i5 2500K I know for sure I'd like to upgrade to a SSD, and I'd also like to upgrade my RAM... just not sure what parts to buy. Thanks Any SATA 6GB SSD will work fine. Intel, Samsung, and SanDisk all make great examples. For the video card, if you aren't gaming, it's fine. If you are gaming, consider a GTX-760 or 770. If you are a hardcore gamer, look for a GTX-970. That motherboard can also be upgraded to an Intel i7-2700K CPU. If all you are doing is web-surfing/e-mailing, the only noticeable upgrade will be the SSD. Even then, only noticeable at boot time, really. m ETA: Go to newegg.com. You can compare a number of components and choose the ones that fit your budget. ETA2: If the process monitor shows you have free RAM, adding more will do nothing. The speed of the RAM is more or less irrelevant unless you are doing heavy memory/compute processes. (If you don't know if you are doing so, then you aren't.  ) |
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I wouldn't upgrade any of that except maybe add ram. That CPU is a monster overclocker, if you're gaming.
I have similar specs (double the ram) and run MS flight sim X just fine and that is an absolute system resource pig of a program. Can't go wrong with G.Skill ram. I'd get a 16 gb kit (2X8). |
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Any SATA 6GB SSD will work fine. Intel, Samsung, and SanDisk all make great examples. For the video card, if you aren't gaming, it's fine. If you are gaming, consider a GTX-760 or 770. If you are a hardcore gamer, look for a GTX-970. That motherboard can also be upgraded to an Intel i7-2700K CPU. If all you are doing is web-surfing/e-mailing, the only noticeable upgrade will be the SSD. Even then, only noticeable at boot time, really. m ETA: Go to newegg.com. You can compare a number of components and choose the ones that fit your budget. ETA2: If the process monitor shows you have free RAM, adding more will do nothing. The speed of the RAM is more or less irrelevant unless you are doing heavy memory/compute processes. (If you don't know if you are doing so, then you aren't. )
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I'm planning on upgrading my computer and TBH I don't know much about it, specifically what my options are because I don't know what's compatible with my current computer parts. I don't know stuff like what RAM would be best, i.e. I was doing some reading and didn't know stuff like x2 RAM is good because it can work concurrently or in parallel or whatever. If someone could give me some ideas I'd appreciate it. Currently I have: Motherboard: ASUS P8P67 RAM: 8gb (4x2) 1600MHz, not sure of manufacturer Video card: EVGA NVIDIA GTX-580 Processor: i5 2500K I know for sure I'd like to upgrade to a SSD, and I'd also like to upgrade my RAM... just not sure what parts to buy. Thanks Any SATA 6GB SSD will work fine. Intel, Samsung, and SanDisk all make great examples. For the video card, if you aren't gaming, it's fine. If you are gaming, consider a GTX-760 or 770. If you are a hardcore gamer, look for a GTX-970. That motherboard can also be upgraded to an Intel i7-2700K CPU. If all you are doing is web-surfing/e-mailing, the only noticeable upgrade will be the SSD. Even then, only noticeable at boot time, really. m ETA: Go to newegg.com. You can compare a number of components and choose the ones that fit your budget. ETA2: If the process monitor shows you have free RAM, adding more will do nothing. The speed of the RAM is more or less irrelevant unless you are doing heavy memory/compute processes. (If you don't know if you are doing so, then you aren't. )
Thanks. I hadn't even thought to pull up the resource monitor and see what is going on. I'll start doing that. @ greggo... really the only thing I use it for other than PC stuff is amateur video editing of my GoPro footage. I do get pretty tired of waiting for it to process, so if I can cut that down I'd like to. Other than that... well.. because I can. |
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Quoted: Thanks. I hadn't even thought to pull up the resource monitor and see what is going on. I'll start doing that. @ greggo... really the only thing I use it for other than PC stuff is amateur video editing of my GoPro footage. I do get pretty tired of waiting for it to process, so if I can cut that down I'd like to. Other than that... well.. because I can. Quoted: Quoted: Quoted: I'm planning on upgrading my computer and TBH I don't know much about it, specifically what my options are because I don't know what's compatible with my current computer parts. I don't know stuff like what RAM would be best, i.e. I was doing some reading and didn't know stuff like x2 RAM is good because it can work concurrently or in parallel or whatever. If someone could give me some ideas I'd appreciate it. Currently I have: Motherboard: ASUS P8P67 RAM: 8gb (4x2) 1600MHz, not sure of manufacturer Video card: EVGA NVIDIA GTX-580 Processor: i5 2500K I know for sure I'd like to upgrade to a SSD, and I'd also like to upgrade my RAM... just not sure what parts to buy. Thanks Any SATA 6GB SSD will work fine. Intel, Samsung, and SanDisk all make great examples. For the video card, if you aren't gaming, it's fine. If you are gaming, consider a GTX-760 or 770. If you are a hardcore gamer, look for a GTX-970. That motherboard can also be upgraded to an Intel i7-2700K CPU. If all you are doing is web-surfing/e-mailing, the only noticeable upgrade will be the SSD. Even then, only noticeable at boot time, really. m ETA: Go to newegg.com. You can compare a number of components and choose the ones that fit your budget. ETA2: If the process monitor shows you have free RAM, adding more will do nothing. The speed of the RAM is more or less irrelevant unless you are doing heavy memory/compute processes. (If you don't know if you are doing so, then you aren't. )Thanks. I hadn't even thought to pull up the resource monitor and see what is going on. I'll start doing that. @ greggo... really the only thing I use it for other than PC stuff is amateur video editing of my GoPro footage. I do get pretty tired of waiting for it to process, so if I can cut that down I'd like to. Other than that... well.. because I can. Depending on what software you are running, the i7-2700K might help out somewhat. Most of the modern software packages support multi cores. If you run the process monitor during a render session and it shows all cores at 100%, then a 2700K (and more ram if you are using it all) will help. |
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Depending on what software you are running, the i7-2700K might help out somewhat. Most of the modern software packages support multi cores. If you run the process monitor during a render session and it shows all cores at 100%, then a 2700K (and more ram if you are using it all) will help. Quoted:
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I'm planning on upgrading my computer and TBH I don't know much about it, specifically what my options are because I don't know what's compatible with my current computer parts. I don't know stuff like what RAM would be best, i.e. I was doing some reading and didn't know stuff like x2 RAM is good because it can work concurrently or in parallel or whatever. If someone could give me some ideas I'd appreciate it. Currently I have: Motherboard: ASUS P8P67 RAM: 8gb (4x2) 1600MHz, not sure of manufacturer Video card: EVGA NVIDIA GTX-580 Processor: i5 2500K I know for sure I'd like to upgrade to a SSD, and I'd also like to upgrade my RAM... just not sure what parts to buy. Thanks Any SATA 6GB SSD will work fine. Intel, Samsung, and SanDisk all make great examples. For the video card, if you aren't gaming, it's fine. If you are gaming, consider a GTX-760 or 770. If you are a hardcore gamer, look for a GTX-970. That motherboard can also be upgraded to an Intel i7-2700K CPU. If all you are doing is web-surfing/e-mailing, the only noticeable upgrade will be the SSD. Even then, only noticeable at boot time, really. m ETA: Go to newegg.com. You can compare a number of components and choose the ones that fit your budget. ETA2: If the process monitor shows you have free RAM, adding more will do nothing. The speed of the RAM is more or less irrelevant unless you are doing heavy memory/compute processes. (If you don't know if you are doing so, then you aren't. )
Thanks. I hadn't even thought to pull up the resource monitor and see what is going on. I'll start doing that. @ greggo... really the only thing I use it for other than PC stuff is amateur video editing of my GoPro footage. I do get pretty tired of waiting for it to process, so if I can cut that down I'd like to. Other than that... well.. because I can. Depending on what software you are running, the i7-2700K might help out somewhat. Most of the modern software packages support multi cores. If you run the process monitor during a render session and it shows all cores at 100%, then a 2700K (and more ram if you are using it all) will help. That's what I'll plan on doing... thanks! |
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Thanks. I hadn't even thought to pull up the resource monitor and see what is going on. I'll start doing that. @ greggo... really the only thing I use it for other than PC stuff is amateur video editing of my GoPro footage. I do get pretty tired of waiting for it to process, so if I can cut that down I'd like to. Other than that... well.. because I can. Quoted:
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I'm planning on upgrading my computer and TBH I don't know much about it, specifically what my options are because I don't know what's compatible with my current computer parts. I don't know stuff like what RAM would be best, i.e. I was doing some reading and didn't know stuff like x2 RAM is good because it can work concurrently or in parallel or whatever. If someone could give me some ideas I'd appreciate it. Currently I have: Motherboard: ASUS P8P67 RAM: 8gb (4x2) 1600MHz, not sure of manufacturer Video card: EVGA NVIDIA GTX-580 Processor: i5 2500K I know for sure I'd like to upgrade to a SSD, and I'd also like to upgrade my RAM... just not sure what parts to buy. Thanks Any SATA 6GB SSD will work fine. Intel, Samsung, and SanDisk all make great examples. For the video card, if you aren't gaming, it's fine. If you are gaming, consider a GTX-760 or 770. If you are a hardcore gamer, look for a GTX-970. That motherboard can also be upgraded to an Intel i7-2700K CPU. If all you are doing is web-surfing/e-mailing, the only noticeable upgrade will be the SSD. Even then, only noticeable at boot time, really. m ETA: Go to newegg.com. You can compare a number of components and choose the ones that fit your budget. ETA2: If the process monitor shows you have free RAM, adding more will do nothing. The speed of the RAM is more or less irrelevant unless you are doing heavy memory/compute processes. (If you don't know if you are doing so, then you aren't. )
Thanks. I hadn't even thought to pull up the resource monitor and see what is going on. I'll start doing that. @ greggo... really the only thing I use it for other than PC stuff is amateur video editing of my GoPro footage. I do get pretty tired of waiting for it to process, so if I can cut that down I'd like to. Other than that... well.. because I can. Yeah, more RAM would probably be worthwhile. A 16Gb or 32Gb kit would help, you only need dual channel not quad channel, depending on what software you are using and what resolution. As far as editing/encoding, again depending on software, you might be able to use a GPU to speed it up. The software will likely require CUDA(Nvidia) or OpenCL(both AMD or Nvidia but AMD is better right now). Hopefully someone with more experience with video editing can chime in. |
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Thanks. I hadn't even thought to pull up the resource monitor and see what is going on. I'll start doing that. @ greggo... really the only thing I use it for other than PC stuff is amateur video editing of my GoPro footage. I do get pretty tired of waiting for it to process, so if I can cut that down I'd like to. Other than that... well.. because I can. Quoted:
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I'm planning on upgrading my computer and TBH I don't know much about it, specifically what my options are because I don't know what's compatible with my current computer parts. I don't know stuff like what RAM would be best, i.e. I was doing some reading and didn't know stuff like x2 RAM is good because it can work concurrently or in parallel or whatever. If someone could give me some ideas I'd appreciate it. Currently I have: Motherboard: ASUS P8P67 RAM: 8gb (4x2) 1600MHz, not sure of manufacturer Video card: EVGA NVIDIA GTX-580 Processor: i5 2500K I know for sure I'd like to upgrade to a SSD, and I'd also like to upgrade my RAM... just not sure what parts to buy. Thanks Any SATA 6GB SSD will work fine. Intel, Samsung, and SanDisk all make great examples. For the video card, if you aren't gaming, it's fine. If you are gaming, consider a GTX-760 or 770. If you are a hardcore gamer, look for a GTX-970. That motherboard can also be upgraded to an Intel i7-2700K CPU. If all you are doing is web-surfing/e-mailing, the only noticeable upgrade will be the SSD. Even then, only noticeable at boot time, really. m ETA: Go to newegg.com. You can compare a number of components and choose the ones that fit your budget. ETA2: If the process monitor shows you have free RAM, adding more will do nothing. The speed of the RAM is more or less irrelevant unless you are doing heavy memory/compute processes. (If you don't know if you are doing so, then you aren't. )
Thanks. I hadn't even thought to pull up the resource monitor and see what is going on. I'll start doing that. @ greggo... really the only thing I use it for other than PC stuff is amateur video editing of my GoPro footage. I do get pretty tired of waiting for it to process, so if I can cut that down I'd like to. Other than that... well.. because I can. I think in order to see processing speeds of any significance at all you'd have to do a massive upgrade to what you have now, which would be so expensive the resulting performance increase would be pathetic relative to the amount you spent on hardware. |
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In that case....you need to start over from scratch with a completely fresh build. Be prepared to spend at least $1500 to see any noticeable gains from your current build.
Extra RAM, or RAM faster than 1600 is not going to make any noticeable difference. But yes....get the SSD, you won't regret it. It will access large files (video files for instance) much faster than your current HDD. |