Hello awesome people. What's up?
I want to build a new computer for myelf. I am play poker on it and during a typical session I use a lot of programs, a lot of them are java, chrome with 3-4 tabs, a bunch of other programs that are made so stupid and eat insane amount of CPU power. I currently have a laptop+2 1080 monitors connected to it and I want to upgrade cuz I have been running into some trouble.
The laptop spects are:
i7 4702MQ 2.2ghz up to 3.2ghz
16gb ram
gtx 760M
256gb samsung ssd 840 basic
1tb hard drive.
I bought this laptop to have my workstation with me where ever I go but it seems that I'm not going to be traveling anytime soon so I figured that I might as well get a desktop pc.
To make things easier around here just include some extra info so we can tailor you better.
- Budget. How much are you willing to spend?
- I am willing to spend as much as needed, I am not a hardware enthusiast though and don't want to pay more if it's not needed.
- Where do you live (what country), and what currency do you use?
- ROmania : RON/USD/EUR
- -Is there a retailer you prefer?
- NO
- Do you need or already have peripherals? (this can add to costs)
- yes I have everything
- What will you be using your future computer for? Gaming? Rendering? Mix of both? Or is this a home media PC?
- Multiple stuff
- Do you overclock or want to get into overclocking?
- NO, I want to have something extremely stable.
- Do you plan on going for custom watercooling now, or in the future?
- NO
- OS. Do you need a new one?
- NO
If you Render or Edit things-
- What application do you use to render? (very important)
Camtasia Studio
- Do you render movies or photoshop pictures
- I record my screen and render videos very frequently.
I've been watching a lot of teksyndicate's vids on youtube also some from linustechtips and from what I understand I need some processor like xeon with a lot of cores+ hyperthreading to be very stable and also to have a lot power to manage all of these programs that I will be using all at once.
I will be needing an SSD with minimum 250 gb - the faster the better. I bought a samsung 840 basic for my laptop because that one was in top of the benchmarks at the time and also not insanely expensive.
I also want to know if there is possible to get 2 internet connections at once. I have seen motherboards with 2 Ethernet slots and I am very curious about them. A lot of times my internet just crashes and I had multiple times where that costed me ~400$-500$ just because I couldn't get back online. I will get 2 internet cables from 2 different providers and plug it in there to switch fast between them whenever one of them crashes.
As for video card I do play some games like dota2 and from time to time skyrim or some other cool shit but I'm not that crazy about games. Some people tell me that it;s better for me to get a AMD card right now because it renders much much faster and I believe that because I had a 7770 before and it was faster than my current 760M. The only problem is - how stable these amd cards are, I don't want my computer to crash or anything when I start rendering a video and start a session.
Overall: It is very important for me that this system will be very stable and very hard to stop it from what it's doing :D.
thanks a lot in advance