KVR Audio

fairlyclose · Post by **fairlyclose** » Sat Mar 26, 2022 4:24 am

Hi, I am upgrading my 6 year old machine I use for video and audio. I don do gaming at all, nor 3d/ animation etc. Just Video editing in Resolve Studio, and Audio where I dont record live and dont use hundreds of tracks but I do use a lot of processing. A lot. So I have a good case and lots of HDDs and can keep all that and get the following retrofitted in. Which is where I ask - does this look sensible?

Intel S1200 Core i7 11700KF 3.60GHz 8 Core CPU
Gigabyte S1200 ATX B560 HD3 DDR4 Motherboard
32GB DDR4 (2x16GB) G.Skill 3200Mhz Aegis RAM PN F4-3200C16D-32GIS
1TB Seagate Barracuda Q5 Series M.2 PCIe NVMe SSD ZP1000CV3A001
Gigabyte RTX3060 12GB LHR Eagle OC PCIe Graphics Card GV-N3060EAGLE-OC-12GD 2.0
2TB Samsung 970 Evo PLUS M.2 PCIe NVMe SSD
Windows 11 Home 64bit

Also have a couple of SATA SSDs, a 250GB and a 500GB and wonder if I may as well use the 500 as my OS and programs drive? Save the faster NVMe drives for cache, project and resources drives

fairlyclose · Post by **fairlyclose** » Sun Mar 27, 2022 3:38 am

maybe I'd generate some interest if I titled this "How can I make this PC build as good as a Mac"

Heartfeltdawn · Post by **Heartfeltdawn** » Tue Mar 29, 2022 3:49 am

Just sell the old drives. Go new, NVME for everything. Spec list looks fine.

cel4145 · Post by **cel4145** » Tue Mar 29, 2022 4:07 am

fairlyclose wrote: Sat Mar 26, 2022 4:24 am Also have a couple of SATA SSDs, a 250GB and a 500GB and wonder if I may as well use the 500 as my OS and programs drive? Save the faster NVMe drives for cache, project and resources drives

How close are you to filling up the NVME drives? Maybe you might just want to stick with them.

Typically when using the same design, larger capacity will be faster than smaller capacity. Have you looked up read tests on your smaller drives to see if they're fast or not?

At the same time, if you're pushing 70% capacity on either of those NVME drives, it's usually better not to keep filling them up because they'll often slow down. That's typically true for 2.5 in ssds as well.

The other thing, if you're doing a lot of large video file writing, have you checked the wear rate on your NVME's?

kingozrecords · Post by **kingozrecords** » Wed Apr 13, 2022 2:27 pm

If you were willing to replace the mobo A powerful i9 would be a good upgrade, other than that; nothing. tbh the i7's are sometimes dissapointing. I think i9 or i5 would rev better. More like the reliable old core 2 (used on many servers still).

If not a better i7 or i5, like the i5 12600K:
https://cpu.userbenchmark.com/Compare/I ... 4594vs4120

cel4145 · Post by **cel4145** » Wed Apr 13, 2022 3:33 pm

AMD 5900X is currently on special for $395. 12 cores, as opposed to 8 with the 11700K.

advice needed for sound and video editing computer, almost a new build