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Upgrading from LGA775

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CeZemal

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1) What will you be doing with this PC? Gaming? Photoshop? Web browsing? etc
Mostly Adobe Premier, Encoding, Photoshop, Gaming and such

2) What's your budget? Are tax and shipping included?
Willing to spend somewhere between 600-800, looking for price/performance

3) Where do you live?
NJ

4) What exact parts do you need for that budget? CPU, RAM, case, etc. The word "Everything" is not a valid answer. Please list out all the parts you'll need.
Case, CPU, Motherboard, RAM, GPU

5) If reusing any parts, what parts will you be reusing? Please be especially specific about the power supply. List make and model.
PC P&C 750w PSU, optical and hard disk drives, all peripherals

6) Will you be overclocking?
Negative

7) What size monitor do you have and/or plan to have?
22" 1620x1050, plan to eventually upgrade to at least 24" 1080p (not right now though)

8) When do you plan on building/buying the PC?
Within the week unless there's something worth waiting a couple weeks for

9) What features do you need in a motherboard? RAID? Firewire? Crossfire or SLI support? USB 3.0? SATA 6Gb/s? etc.
No preference, just a decent amount of USB

10) Do you already have a legit and reusable/transferable OS key/license? If so, what OS? Is it 32bit or 64bit?
64-bit vista, will upgrade later


The system is mainly used for video editing. My current E8400 is really feeling its age. Looking to boost Premier performance and switch to NVidia graphics (currently using an HD 4870 512MB, I head NV works better for Premier). I appreciate any suggestions :)
 
I recommend looking at the i5-2500 for your cpu since its cheap and relatively good.
 
I recommend this setup:
$300 - Intel Core i7-2600 CPU
$100 - Asus P8H67-M LE LGA 1155 Intel H67
$78 - G.Skill Value Series F3-10600CL9D-8GBNT 2 x 4GB DDR3 1333 RAM
$190 - Gigabyte GV-N460OC-1GI GeForce GTX 460 1GB PCI-E Video Card
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Total: $668 plus tax and shipping.

If you want a bit of extra GPU power for 1920x1080 resolution, go for the GTX 560.
 
I was looking at that motherboard. It looks awesome, but does it enable the use of the Turbo Boost on the CPU? That's something I'm really looking for.

Also, any recommendations on a decent case that's relatively cheap?
 
CeZemal said:
I was looking at that motherboard. It looks awesome, but does it enable the use of the Turbo Boost on the CPU? That's something I'm really looking for.

Also, any recommendations on a decent case that's relatively cheap?
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Yes, the Turbo Boost can be enabled on H67 mobos. However, the speed boost is as little as 100 MHz with all four cores operational (to 3.5 GHz) to as much as 400 MHz (to 3.8 GHz) with only one core in use.
 
Awesome :)

So now, maybe this belongs in another section of the forum, but I plan on using my old hard drives that already have my Windows on them and such, and I don't want to risk losing any of my data on my boot drive (my stuff is backed up anyway). What should I be aware of when switching over all the hardware? As in, all the drivers I'm using now will no longer be valid since I'll be switching everything over. Would that create a problem? If so, what's the best way to go about all of this changing over?
 
CeZemal said:
Awesome :)

So now, maybe this belongs in another section of the forum, but I plan on using my old hard drives that already have my Windows on them and such, and I don't want to risk losing any of my data on my boot drive (my stuff is backed up anyway). What should I be aware of when switching over all the hardware? As in, all the drivers I'm using now will no longer be valid since I'll be switching everything over. Would that create a problem? If so, what's the best way to go about all of this changing over?
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Uninstall the drivers for those parts and then switch to the new parts. Then install the drivers for the new hardware.

Do note that I'm not 100% sure about Vista's robustness when it comes to straight up siwtching from one set of hardware to another. I do know however that Windows 7 is bloody robust when it comes to moving between hardware: I've move the same exact Windows 7 install, without doing any sort of driver uninstall, from an Intel based setup to an AMD setup with no issue.
 
Danny Bui said:
I've move the same exact Windows 7 install, without doing any sort of driver uninstall, from an Intel based setup to an AMD setup with no issue.
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This is true for me as well. Also it installs all drivers for just about everything you want it to for you. Just be wary of what it installs if you upgrade to it. Actually that applies to Vista as well.
 
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