I'm building an editing rig. I'm using the recipe from the $1500 video that Logan put up way back when with one change. I opped for the GTX 760 from EVGA. I have two questions. Will that card work on that board? Can I save some cash by just getting a lot of GOOD ASS RAM insted of a Graphics card?
For editing get 16gb ram and a gtx 760. The 760 will be not as good as a 770 but not that big of a diffrence. And yes, that gpu will work on that board. Any gpu works on any board.
if you are buying a 760 for the cuda cores for rendering/editing you are better off with the 660ti as the 760 has less cuda cores than the 660TI and its cheaper.
GTX760 1152 cuda cores
GTX660TI 1344 cuda cores
depends on your workflow and what you are editing gpus only help your editing speed where cuda cores are being used which is not everything exspically if you use third party plugins like Red Giant software
here is the priority list when it comes to increasing editing speed
#1 CPU editing(mainly in Adobe AE and PR pr) is one of the only things that actually uses all of your cpu's cores. High clock speed always helps but more threads means faster render times because Adobe allows you to render muiltiple frames at a time well as long as you have the ram to support it which gets me to the next part on the list
#2 Memory All does cpu cores don't mean anything if they do not have enough ram to share between them to offload and upload data. Something you may notice is that you have a hexa-core system but your render times are slow. Thats because you have idle cores that are not actully rendering anything becasue there is not enough ram to utilize them. The rule of thumb is minimum 2gb per core and recomanded 4gb per core
-on a side note a core can only render 1 frame at a time high clock speeds mean that that you can blaze through all those frames but only 1 at a time more cores are alwasy better then higher clock speeds which is why you see most workstation boards having avg clocked xeons. Stability and numbers always wins the race with rendering then straght hourse power-
#3 GPU Depending on the program you are using for example 3ds max maya cs6 what ever you may need either v-ray, mental ray or open CL depending on that will dictate the type of GPU you will need
Hope this all helped
wanted to add a good solid SSD can help out a whole lot when it comes to cache it will allow you to load previous projects in AE and Preimer alot faster aswell as output when you are rendering
reading from one SSD and then writing to another
I'm on a budget. I have to go with the cheeper one for now. I'll just up grade in next year
I've got my eye on an EVGA GTX760 and it has both cuda cores and supports both open CL and Open GL. http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16814130935 I'm gong to be working mainly in Dreamweaver, PhotoShop, Ilistrator, 3DS Max, and Maya. Will my pc be able to handle that with this card? If not, can you recomend a card of a similar price?
for what you wanna do you really shouldn't try to go cheap either save up until u can get something better or dont upgrade