Re: Computer Build for Photo Editing - Need Recommendations
The 3770K is $320 at Amazon. If you live close to a Microcenter it would run you about $250 including taxes (this is an in-store only special that Microcenter runs).
EDIT: you could substitute an i5 3570K for the i7 3770K and not see any real difference in your day to day use. This would save you about $100 if your budget is tight. The 3570K does not have hyperthreading, but hyperthreading will only speed up certain heavily mutithreaded applications like video processing.
Another thought: if you think you will want to overclock your processor, I would take a hard look at the SandyBridge (SB) i5 2500K and i7 2600K also. The IvyBridge processors (3570k and 3770k) are slightly faster at the same clockspeed and use slightly less energy, but get very hot when overclocked because Intel messed up the die-to-heatspreader connection on these processors. The SB processors do not have this issue and will happily run at 65 to 70C all day long with good cooling at 4.8 GHz, while your IB cpus will be hitting 85 to 90C at those speeds (if you can get there at all) even with high end water cooling. The SB processors will work on all current Z68 and Z77 chipset boards, while IB processors will work on Z77, and on Z68 with a BIOS update.
Re: Computer Build for Photo Editing - Need Recommendations
The 3770K is $320 at Amazon. If you live close to a Microcenter it would run you about $250 including taxes (this is a in-store only special that Microcenter runs).
EDIT: you could substitute an i5 3570K for the i7 3770K and not see any real difference in your day to day use. This would save you about $100 if your budget is tight. The 3570K does not have hyperthreading, but hyperthreading will only speed up certain heavily mutithreaded applications like video processing.
Another thought: if you think you will want to overclock your processor, I would take a hard look at the SandyBridge (SB) i5 2500K and i7 2600K also. The IvyBridge processors (3570k and 3770k) are slightly faster at the same clockspeed and use slightly less energy, but get very hot when overclocked because Intel messed up the die-to-heatspreader connection on these processors. The SB processors do not have this issue and will happily run at 65 to 70C all day long with good cooling at 4.8 GHz, while your IB cpus will be hitting 85 to 90C at those speeds (if you can get there at all) even with high end water cooling. The SB processors will work on all current Z68 and Z77 chipset boards, while IB processors will work on Z77, and on Z68 with a BIOS update.
Re: Computer Build for Photo Editing - Need Recommendations
The 3770K is $320 at Amazon. If you live close to a Microcenter it would run you about $250 including taxes (this is a in-store only special that Microcenter runs).
Dec 28, 2012 at 01:00 PM
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