New Editing System

CorTed wrote on 12/30/2009, 3:08 PM

Well I have ordered a new motherboard, RAM and processor for my new editing system.
I went for the new ASUS P6X58D along with 12G of RAM and the i7-920 processor.
Has anyone here on this forum have any experience with this new board yet?
One of the reasons for picking this board is the USB3 and SATA III (6g/s transfer) capability, eventhough no devices are available yet I hope to have this board for a number of years and allows for future upgrading.
Also got a 80Gig SSD drive which I am going to set up as the boot drive and put Vegas on it.

Ted

Comments

Al Min wrote on 12/30/2009, 3:40 PM

Ted - I followed the Video Guys DIY7 guide

http://www.videoguys.com/Guide/C/DIY+Systems/Videoguys+DIY++Intel+Core+i7/0xe07f65920351fbf3ed8f9892355dfda0.aspx

I tell you what - its brilliant. I followed the guide exactly. I tested a render that took 36 hours on my core 2 3.00ghz. According to the new machine, it was going to finish in 9 hours - thats only 1/4 of the time. You wont regret it. What a machine!

Mike M. wrote on 12/30/2009, 3:49 PM

What kind of cpu coolers are you guys using on this beast?

RalphM wrote on 12/30/2009, 3:51 PM

CorTed,

Should be a great machine. Would be very interested in some long term observations of the SSD when you have some experience with it.

RalphM

CorTed wrote on 12/30/2009, 4:08 PM

Mixer, I selected the Thermaltake contac 29 cooler
(planning to OC to 3.8GHz)
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16835106141

It was recommended by Newegg.

Ralph, I will let you know how the SSD performs once I got the beast up and running.

A Min check out this video ehich is using the same components