So this was my forth PC build and the first time that I actually spent a good bit of money on parts. I'd just like you guys feedback on how I've done - is there anything I should change/upgrade in the future to make it better for editing? I did hear that AMD cards are supported in Premiere now but I didn't wana risk it so stuck with the cuda cores. Its the first time I've ever tried my hand at video editing, just downloaded Premiere today and it's all going well so far. And as for the system..I did get some crashes when I pushed the OC to 4.7Ghz but it's been stable at 4.6.
Processor - i7 4770k OC'ed to 4.6Ghz
Cooling - Corsair H100i
Mobo - Gigabyte GA-Z87-G1.Sniper M5
RAM - G.Skills TridentX 4X4GB 2400Mhz
PSU - Corsair TX750M
SSD - OCZ 480GB Agility 3
GPU - Zotac GTX 760 AMP Edition 2GB
Wireless card - TPLink 450Mbps duel band
Many fans and a long string of LEDs
OS - Windows 8 Pro 64bit
Case - Parvum Systems s1.0 - I duno if anyones seen or used one of these before, they are pretty unique to say the least.. there were a few drawbacks though that I found,..
1. It came flatpacked lol Now I like to think I'm pretty good at putting PC parts together.. but screwing together a case? oh hell no.
Add to that the only instructions came in the form of a grainy Youtube video that wouldn't play in HD.
There is no place for an optical drive.. of course this isn't thaaat much of a problem.. but also there is no room for an HDD lol well not unless you wana do some custom mounting..l just stuck my SSD to the bottom of the case out of the way and put the 3TB drive I got for it in to my ITX system instead.
There was a looot of bracket bending going on to fit my GTX760.
I tried a bit of Crysis 3 today, quite disappointly I was only getting around 20fps on max settings. Haven't tried to OC the gpu yet though.
I've written too much lol this is what Coffee at 2am does to you..
Wouldve changed this -OCZ 480GB Agility 3 to anything else. I dont like to plant the seeds of fear in you, but with most ocz ssds it not a case of if it fails but when. Also the random controller related errors that occur with them and dodgy nand. Yeah im sure others will disagree but check out any stores rma bin.
Cool case though. I think it was from these that Corsair got the idea for their latest 540 case.
As deejeta said, I wouldn't have chose the Agility 3, OCZ has changed a lot of things since the time of the Agility 3, and they got WAY better, a vertex 4 would have been a safe bet.
I am impressed how you achieved 4.6ghz AND 2400mhz ram, haswell ram speeds get nuked when OCing the CPU that much.
And the GPU side, looks weird, you should check that out better and come with more information.
Ahh I should have paid the extra and stuck with SanDisk Extreme I guess, I chose the OCZ on a price/Read + write speed/Size basis... that and I have an OCZ Vector in another system and thats been okay so far (touch wood).
Yeah I was surprised that it would run with the ram and cpu overclock.. I'm not too sure its quite as stable as I thought yet though..I mean nothings frozen up or exploded.. just sort of a feeling I've got lol So is it better to drop the ram down to 2133 or to lower the cpu down a bit do you think? The temp for my cpu is staying at pretty reasonable numbers so I guess that would infer that the ram is causing any instabilities?
And I used the Nvidea Experiance thing to optimise for Crysis 3.. think all it did was turn down the AA and now its running 45ish fps in the rain part at the start and 60fps inside so I'm happy with that. In fact I copied the settings over to my itx system that has a Sapphire 7850 oc edition in it and that was doing 25fps average .. which I don't find too bad but then I was brought up on consoles lol