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Yes Gregston,
Please let us know what you did, I was going to add another monitor to see if it would help, but if you figured it out that would be good to know what you did.
Thanks.
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Thanks for the help, I have 2 freenas servers for my storage 1 in RAID 5 and the other in RAID 10 (if I remember correct I built them a few years back) My wife takes a lot of pictures and if I lost any it would be the end of me so the 2 servers backup to each other plus I have an external for the most important stuff just in case. It is good to know encoding doesn't require more than 7200rpm. I just ordered my Win10 and will be installing it tonight unfortunately I have to go out of town over the weekend so it will be next week before I am up and editing. Thanks again for all your help!!
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So what you are saying is I should put
OS and PD on 1 SSD, Source files on 2nd SSD and render on the HDD.
That way the SSD's are mostly being read and the HDD is being written to, which from my understanding the writes are what degrade the SSD over time.
I saw in another forum they recommended video source on one drive and render on another so they are not competing for drive time. Have you/anyone heard this?
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I searched for anything to do with HDD/SDD and didn't find anything other than on Google about other software.
My question:
I have 2 x SSD (250gb) 1 x 1tb WD Black HDD, what is the best use of these three drivesl.
examples:
OS and PD on 1 SSD, sourse files on WD Black and render to 2nd SDD
or OS + PD + Sourse files on 1 SSD and render to 2nd SSD and backup/store on WD Black
I thought about RAIDing the 2 SSD's but I would like to have a 3rd SSD to do that so I could keep my system on 1 and RAID the other 2.
OR Does something else make since that I am not seeing.
Thanks in advance.
Rodney
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That is similar to what I built, exceptions being I went I7-4970K due to great deal and I went 4gb on gpu just because of possible gaming and I have 2-250gb SSD's which I will be posting a question on later today about the best way to set them up since I have read different setups as well.
Be interested if you do the test for the spread sheet to see what Skylake will get you.
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I just looked at the spreadsheet and compared where I think my cpu/gpu would fall and I think I will be happy. I don't have my system up and running just yet, I got a great deal on cyber monday and have been running Linux Mint to stress test. I still have to purchase Win10 +gpu which I am doing this week so sometime next week I should be up and running so I can actually perform the tests and see what I get. as far as brands, I looked at all the reviews on Amazon and newegg and Micro center and come up with the EVGA FTW 4gb fits my budget, from what I see 2 or 4 gb doesn't help PD, but I may game a little as well (2nd or even 3rd purpose) so the 4gb will help if I decide to do more gaming. They also suggested the GTX950 as well, it seems to depend on what you want to spend, but it looks like the 950 or 960 will get similer results with PD. I'm a total noob at this the responses to my question are here http://forum.cyberlink.com/forum/posts/list/47030.page
Hope this helps, it helped me a lot.
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Also in the link I put there is a link to a spreadsheet that shows different CPU / GTX960, I would guess your 4 core i7 will do well, but of coarse if you can afford new everything and go with the 6 core i7 5820k, x99 motherboard and ddr4 ram or better there could be a slight advantage...worth the money, only you can decide that. I am building with an i7 4790K, the reason is I got it for $250 on cyber monday, I was originally going to go i5 but couldn't pass up the price.
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I ask a similar question a few days back, with help of the others here I came to the conclusion to get the GTX 960. You can follow most of the important info here
http://forum.cyberlink.com/forum/posts/list/46135.page
It is currently trending right above your post
I was originally going to go with a GTX 970 or R9 390. But after reading and hearing the advice here the cheaper 960 is the way to go.
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Thanks Jeff
I am trying to decide between the 950 and 960 now as my primary goal is PD but I may still do some gaming (not a topic for this site but still part of the decision) Since my budget was +-$300 and these cards are well under that, I can put the money toward more HDD space, always a good thing.
Thanks for all the responses and links, I did a search for gpu and found a few of the links but not all of them so that was very helpful. Still not a Nivida fan but since it seems to be the best for what I am doing and why I came here for advice I will take that advice since it seems very sound.
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Pepsiman why did you go with the gtx 950 and not the gtx 960, Price?, I was thinking the gtx960 4gb would be the best in this range. thanks for your response
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JL_JL
So are you saying the gtx 960 would still be better as sonic67 says or the gtx 970. again I just want to be somewhat future proof, (I realize you can't be 100% future proof with technology, I didn't go skylake, but still feel my 4790k will still get me into the future with what I am doing especially since I got it for less than $250 (I must have misinterpreted the info on NVENC vs CUDA on older drivers)
If you were going to get a new GPU in the +-300 range what would be the best for mostly PD and some gaming.
thanks your help
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I noticed the GTX 960 was popular for powerdirector, but it seems as if I would be going backwards and not getting the best card for my money and future, I noticed if you use older drivers for the 970 that NVENC still seems to work, just not sure if there is a usage hit in pw. So what you are saying is the newer cards won't help even if I use them for other purposes (gaming). I am not a huge Nivida fan at this point they may change my mind in the future but right now I was looking at AMD R9 series, but again my main purpose is video editing time. Just don't want to have to upgrade the gpu soon because I went with >2 year old gpu
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I have been reading in these forum's and doing searches for a while now and I have decided on one of 2 GPU's.
GTX 970 and R9 390. Issue is everything I read is more about gaming then Video editing (I may game but for that purpuse either of these cards will more than meet my needs).
Looking at everything I can, I can find nothing that says Powerdirector will work better or worse with either of these cards.
(although the Nivida * that you have to use older drivers is concerning, but it seem more people with powerdirector use Nivida)
Does anyone have input on this? I am leaning toward the R9 390 (will the 8gb vram help?) but every time I think I have decided I see something that makes me wonder if I am making the correct decision. This is the top of my budget for GPU so I want to do it right the first time.
i7 4970k, 16 gb RAM, 2 ssd's + 1tb HDD (just need a GPU)
Thanks in advance
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