New Computer for CS6 - whats out there?

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dwiener

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I'm getting ready to upgrade from CS5.5 to CS6. It's also time to upgrade my 8 year old desktop workstation. I know there are plenty of i7 solutions that will run rings around my old 2.4 gHz dual xenon, but I was wondering about the new motherboards coming out this spring that will supposedly make thunderbolt available on windows machines. Is there anything available yet? Is it worth the premium to go for a six core processor over a four? Is it even worth it to go for another dual xenon machine? I'm getting the feeling that a good gpu is worth as much or more than the cpu these days.
 
dwiener said:
I'm getting ready to upgrade from CS5.5 to CS6. It's also time to upgrade my 8 year old desktop workstation. I know there are plenty of i7 solutions that will run rings around my old 2.4 gHz dual xenon, but I was wondering about the new motherboards coming out this spring that will supposedly make thunderbolt available on windows machines. Is there anything available yet? Is it worth the premium to go for a six core processor over a four? Is it even worth it to go for another dual xenon machine? I'm getting the feeling that a good gpu is worth as much or more than the cpu these days.
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GPU is VERY important. If I could wait for a thunderbolt motherboard I would. That is going to be a huge deal going forward. Processors are constantly upgrading so I wouldn't get to hung up on them however if you can upgrade the CPU to a faster in class version than get that one. I built a PC for my son with a i5 that also can run an i7 in case he wants to upgrade it later. The graphics card and lots of RAM is the big deal.
 
The best is to go over to Adobe forum for PPro ( http://forums.adobe.com/community/premiere/hardware_forum?view=overview) ,Hardware section there are a lot of people asking the same questions . Here are some giudelines , in most case it is recomended to get ASUS or Gigabite MB, The X79 Sabertooth, the more ram the better , Display card (Nvida) , Power supply higher that 700w mim ,1000 w and higher . Have a look at this link it will help http://ppbm6.com/Planning.html , also this would help you http://ppbm5.com/DB-PPBM5-2.php, this specs are setup and by member on the Adobe forum Harm Millaard and Bill Gehrke , they also are very helpful and generally you get answers with in a hour of posting.
Hope this helps
 
I think the 1366 platform with the X58 chipset is still the most stable, and the only one that gives you 6 cores. I would still consider the I7 900 series the best out there.
 
As WhiteMonkey has pionted out videoguys are also a good giuld to follow, at the end it is down to how big or small your pockets are. I biuld a machine for CS5 , when it was launched, after installing CS6 and doing some work , I am amazed how well she runs CS6 even better and faster I dare say than CS5 :)
 
I think the 1366 platform with the X58 chipset is still the most stable, and the only one that gives you 6 cores.
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I disagree. 1366 is old and outdated. Building a new system today, it doesn't make much sense. You're better off with an Ivy Bridge (1155 socket) or Sandy Bridge-E (2011 socket). The i7 3930K and 3960K are both 6 core models.
 
The MSI 77 is a very nice board but my problem with it is the RAM slots there only 4 where the X79 boards have 8 slots Adobe want ram the more the better.I cannot under stand MSI why they put Thunderbolt in midrange board and not in the X79 .
 
The Z77 are very nice boards, ad thunderbolt great , they are very affordable and should perform very well, but the only down side is the 4x slots for RAM, So what do you do, buy X79 for the 8 slots or Z77 with Thunderbolt ? I am giong to away a while myself and see who brings out a similar board with Thunderbolt and 8 slot for ram.
 
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