AMD Phenom II x6 1090T or Intel i7-950???

ATCZER0

Newbie Joined: Dec 29, 2010 00:59 Messages: 5 Offline

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Dec 29, 2010 01:30

Greetings,

I have been a pinnacle user for many years and look forward to moving over to PD9. I am currently building a new system for AVCHD editing (HD camera is Panasoninc HS250) and have enjoyed searching through the forum for info about the program as well as hardware.

My question...Most user sigs list hardware from Intel and I'm deciding whether to go AMD 1090T or Intel i7-950. The cost is within $40 of each other and I'm having a hard time deciding. Each has strenghts over the other depending on which benchmark used. I am not a gamer and this will be mostly a dedicated video machine.

Options:
1)AMD 1090T...ASUS M4A89GTD Pro-USB3 motherboard
2)i7-950...Gigabyte X58A-UD3R or ASUS Sabertooth x58 motherboard

Also...Would 1 EVGA GeForce GTX465SC be enough GPU? I'm trying to stay within budget.

Thanks in advance for your input!

Carl312

Senior Contributor Location: Texas, USA Joined: Mar 16, 2010 20:11 Messages: 9090 Offline

Dec 29, 2010 09:36

ATCZER0

Are you building this machine, or you comparing two ready built?

If you are building, why the change in Motherboard brands. Both Asus and Gigabyte make equivalent motherboards for the Intel or AMD CPU.

Go to the Manufacturer of the motherboards you will find similar boards for each of the processors.

Maybe a benchmark site will help you decide. You can check the benchmark of CPU's and GPU's.
http://www.cpubenchmark.net/

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Carl312: Windows 10 64-bit 8 GB RAM,AMD Phenom II X4 965 3.4 GHz,ATI Radeon HD 5770 1GB,240GB SSD,two 1TB HDs.

ATCZER0

Newbie Joined: Dec 29, 2010 00:59 Messages: 5 Offline

Dec 29, 2010 10:05

Carl...Thanks, I am finalizing components to build myself. I will check the site you mentioned. I have spent quite a bit of time researching everything at tomshardware.com and guru3d.com.

This machine is designed to be used mainly as an editor for personal video using PD9...would the AMD 1090T 6 core architecture be more beneficial, or would I still be better off with i7-950 because of triple channel memory capability and other intel advantages? The total builds will be within $15.00 of each other and I'm starting to think that both will work effectively, maybe just a little differently. Thanks for any input/ideas!

Greetings from Texas!

Carl312

Senior Contributor Location: Texas, USA Joined: Mar 16, 2010 20:11 Messages: 9090 Offline

Dec 29, 2010 15:08

I am not the person to be asking.

I do not know much about Intel's architecture, I have always used AMD.

There are people in the forum that use Intel I7 Cpu's and there are others that use AMD. I am using a 4 core AMD as you can see from my sig.

My way is to buy the fastest CPU and the fastest GPU that I can afford.

There are always compromises. Just get what makes you happy.

There is the forever balance between using Nivida or ATI GPUs. I lean to ATI, I took out a Nivida Video Card because I was not happy with its performance.

I judge you are from Texas also from the Greeting. Carl312: Windows 10 64-bit 8 GB RAM,AMD Phenom II X4 965 3.4 GHz,ATI Radeon HD 5770 1GB,240GB SSD,two 1TB HDs.

ATCZER0

Newbie Joined: Dec 29, 2010 00:59 Messages: 5 Offline

Dec 29, 2010 15:53

I see you have the Radeon 5770...I was looking at using one 5670 right now and possibly going 2 later because the spec page on PowerDirector9 only listed the 5600 series as supported. I'm guessing more are supported than are listed and you haven't had any problems with your 5770?? I wish there was a more definitve listing as I'm not up on which model numbers are upnumbered to what as they are further developed. And yes lived in Texas all my life...now in D/FW

James W

Senior Contributor Location: Lakeland, FL USA Joined: Aug 18, 2008 10:36 Messages: 911 Offline

Dec 29, 2010 18:50

Both of those CPUs will work just fine and believe that you will be happy with either of them. I would not be overly concerned by the graphics card compatibility list. If the card supports CUDA or ATI stream then you should be fine. One thing you should consider is your hard drive configuration. You want to minimize the bottleneck caused by the type of hard disks you use. You may want to consider at least one solid state drive for faster performance if you can afford it. Q9300 2.5 GHz
4 GB Ram
Nvidia 9800 GT

VideoEditor54321

Member Location: Las Vegas, Nevada Joined: Dec 25, 2010 12:19 Messages: 61 Offline

Dec 30, 2010 00:19

I'm having mightty fine luck with this AMD Phenom II x6 1075T. You can see from my sig I took a leap with 12 gb ram. I'm not up on my graphics card knowledge these days not chose 1 gb on card memory. I think one of the smartest things I did for a guy on a budget was to load all my software (all) on the C drive with the OS software but default video saves to my secondary 10,000 rpm sata drive. No bottle-necks. As little as I knowabout this video editing business, I really happy with the performance thus far. Dell Studio XPS 7100 Minitower:
Phenom II 6 Core 1075T 3.0GHz processor - Black . ATI Radeon HD 5770 1GB GDDR5 graphics card . 12GB DDR3 SDRAM,1333MHz . 300GB 10,000 rpm SATA Hard Drive . 12X Pioneer BluRay Burner . 16X DVD+/-RW . Windows 7 64bit .

ATCZER0

Newbie Joined: Dec 29, 2010 00:59 Messages: 5 Offline

Dec 30, 2010 00:28

JamesW...Thanks for the clarification

I have 2 Corsair Force series 40GB SSD's that I intend to install Raid0 as the Win7 OS drives only. I also picked up a 1TB SATA for programs and data. The SSD's read 280MB/s and write 270MB/s which looked to be pretty good. I might even try moving my project files to the SSD as I work on them. Is that a bad idea? Do you have any other suggestions for setting this up? I still have a few days before I install the OS.

VideoEditor...I finally came to the conclusion that it was a toss-up with no really bad option. I picked up the i7-950 for $199 and just jumped at it. They both look to be excellent values.

Thanks everyone...

VideoEditor54321

Member Location: Las Vegas, Nevada Joined: Dec 25, 2010 12:19 Messages: 61 Offline

Dec 30, 2010 00:41

You'll have fun. I'm just getting started myself. Dell Studio XPS 7100 Minitower:
Phenom II 6 Core 1075T 3.0GHz processor - Black . ATI Radeon HD 5770 1GB GDDR5 graphics card . 12GB DDR3 SDRAM,1333MHz . 300GB 10,000 rpm SATA Hard Drive . 12X Pioneer BluRay Burner . 16X DVD+/-RW . Windows 7 64bit .

Robert2 S

Senior Contributor Location: Australia Joined: Apr 22, 2009 05:57 Messages: 1461 Offline

Dec 30, 2010 00:48

I am running an i7 950 cpu with Nvidia 460 video cards and I feel these days computers have so much power any decent system will serve you well.

The real life difference between high end systems these days will only amount to seconds and sometimes tenths of a second. You will get much more performance just using PD compared to the rest. Enjoy what you can afford and have fun.

My youtube channel====> http://www.youtube.com/user/relate2?feature=mhsn

Carl312

Senior Contributor Location: Texas, USA Joined: Mar 16, 2010 20:11 Messages: 9090 Offline

Dec 30, 2010 10:31

ATCZER0

I see you have the Radeon 5770...I was looking at using one 5670 right now and possibly going 2 later because the spec page on PowerDirector9 only listed the 5600 series as supported. I'm guessing more are supported than are listed and you haven't had any problems with your 5770?? I wish there was a more definitve listing as I'm not up on which model numbers are upnumbered to what as they are further developed. And yes lived in Texas all my life...now in D/FW

I really like the Radeon 5770, it is fast on rendering, renders avc mp4 and mpeg2 and sometimes wmv.

I have a friend that lives in Plano. His web site is scantips.com.

I live in south-east Texas, south of Lufkin. Carl312: Windows 10 64-bit 8 GB RAM,AMD Phenom II X4 965 3.4 GHz,ATI Radeon HD 5770 1GB,240GB SSD,two 1TB HDs.

ATCZER0

Newbie Joined: Dec 29, 2010 00:59 Messages: 5 Offline

Dec 31, 2010 00:22

I will check-out the website. Got everything to do the build (went intel) so we'll see in a few hours (days?) how it all goes.

Carl312

Senior Contributor Location: Texas, USA Joined: Mar 16, 2010 20:11 Messages: 9090 Offline

Dec 31, 2010 15:10

Days for sure to get everything working. Carl312: Windows 10 64-bit 8 GB RAM,AMD Phenom II X4 965 3.4 GHz,ATI Radeon HD 5770 1GB,240GB SSD,two 1TB HDs.