As it seems to look like the best value for the price.
And maybe the
MSI 990FXA-GD65V2 AM3+ AMD 990FX SATA 6Gb/s USB 3.0 ATX AMD Motherboard
Or
BIOSTAR TA990FXE AM3+ AMD 990FX SATA 6Gb/s USB 3.0 ATX AMD Motherboard with UEFI BIOS
Any thoughts? Both look like they would be easy to OC if I wanted to. *Any other suggestions for a motherboard?
ALSO… I was thinking of going with a Geforce 650 or 660 card. Any suggestions for a Video card that is priced around $150-$200 (don’t really want to go above $200 but will if I need to)
This is not just a gaming rig. I will be using for design (CS6, a little video processing, and a little 3D like Strata or Maya). I also want to be running two screens at 1920x1080 for working (not essential for gaming)
I try to do as much research on these parts as possible but I am new to the PC building thing.
I would like to stay around $350 to $400 for these pieces.
Well, I'm not to sure about this, but I think only Maya supports CUDA. They all support OpenGL, though, so I'd suggest getting a Radeon 7850 instead. Also, if you want to OC( or just don't want to get your parts fried), get a better mobo. MSI and Biostar aren't particularly the best( MSI usually has problems with their boards). Get either an ASRock, Gigabyte or ASUS
Maya is not as important... But CS6 is essential. So does that mean that CS6 wont work with a Radeon card?... or wont work as well? I know when I have used them both at school on a Mac they used NVida graphics.
As for the motherboard I will look for a different one and forget about the two I posted... One question with the motherboard though... what is the micro board I keep seeing them?
my bad I should have specified... Photoshop is very important, but I also use Illustrator and indesign most every day, as well as I’m learning Premier and aftereffects.
was just on adobe's website and it looks like nvidia has the best compatability with premier and aftereffects... and they might have problems with some Radeon cards.
what you you guys think of :
EVGA 02G-P4-3651-KR GeForce GTX 650 Ti 2GB 128-bit GDDR5 PCI Express 3.0 x16 HDCP Ready Video Card
in terms of the GPU try and push to the 660 if you can massive performance over the 650, if you are going for the 650 go for the 650ti to get the most out of it without much of a price increase.
for the proccessor it is a great proccessor for the money,and in my opinion the MSI motherboard looks nicer as ive had good previois experience with MSI always good.