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- Apr 10, 2001
After about 7 years (unbelievably!) I think it's time for me to build a new system. I started with an I5-750 and moved to an I7-870. Had one motherboard fail about 3 years ago and kept the system going with an Ebay find on an Asus P7P55D. Now that motherboard is also starting to fail. I've lost the rear I/O panel.
I stuck a NIC card in it to get me network access and use the front panel speaker port for sound. However, I think the Marvel chipset for the drives may also be failing.
I've had the system OC'd to about 4Ghz, and the most taxing thing I do is some HD video editing, thus the reason I've been able to keep this system so long.
I think it's time to just bite the bullet and build a new one, so I'm looking for suggestions from you guys since I've been out of the loop so long.
I "think" a I5-6500 would be plenty for what I need to do, but I have no idea what motherboard is any good. I was thinking an Asus Z170-A and 2 x 8GB sticks of Corsair Vengeance DDR4 to go with it. Thoughts?
I do plan to OC it if possible.
I'll run the OS on my Samsung 500GB SSD from the current systems, but I do need a suggestion on some 2TB drives for the video storage. I've typically used WD drive like the Caviar Black and would do a RAID 1 for redundancy?
I have a Megahalems CPU cooler that has done a good job, but I'm unsure if it's compatible with the new CPU socket?
Video Card or use the built in CPU one? I run two 18" monitors, nothing fancy.
Appreciate the help in advance. You guys have always steered me in the right direction. Hard to believe I've been coming here for advice for so many years.
I'm not opposed to a high power laptop if there's one that can handle the video editing. I tried a test on my wife's Asus with a I5 and it was very slow and taxed the proc. I'd just have to get external storage.
I stuck a NIC card in it to get me network access and use the front panel speaker port for sound. However, I think the Marvel chipset for the drives may also be failing.
I've had the system OC'd to about 4Ghz, and the most taxing thing I do is some HD video editing, thus the reason I've been able to keep this system so long.
I think it's time to just bite the bullet and build a new one, so I'm looking for suggestions from you guys since I've been out of the loop so long.
I "think" a I5-6500 would be plenty for what I need to do, but I have no idea what motherboard is any good. I was thinking an Asus Z170-A and 2 x 8GB sticks of Corsair Vengeance DDR4 to go with it. Thoughts?
I do plan to OC it if possible.
I'll run the OS on my Samsung 500GB SSD from the current systems, but I do need a suggestion on some 2TB drives for the video storage. I've typically used WD drive like the Caviar Black and would do a RAID 1 for redundancy?
I have a Megahalems CPU cooler that has done a good job, but I'm unsure if it's compatible with the new CPU socket?
Video Card or use the built in CPU one? I run two 18" monitors, nothing fancy.
Appreciate the help in advance. You guys have always steered me in the right direction. Hard to believe I've been coming here for advice for so many years.
I'm not opposed to a high power laptop if there's one that can handle the video editing. I tried a test on my wife's Asus with a I5 and it was very slow and taxed the proc. I'd just have to get external storage.
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