No mum, no dad, no immediate family anywhere near me. It is not a matter of me wasting it, I just don't have it. If I put it away some other emergency will crop up and I will have to use it for that instance, whereas, if I go ahead and buy a piece here and there then the piece is bought. Whatever else needed the money just has to go without.
If youre on a budget like I was when I just bought new parts consider going AMD.
Benchmark Results: Adobe CS 6 - AMD FX-8350 Review: Does Piledriver Fix Bulldozer's Flaws?
benchmarks in adobe, its pretty good. and since Im wanting to learn video editing, the multicore chip can work very fast with premiere. single threads is meh. its ok though. I take it as it is. but the future is programs using multi cores. when I bought my Q600 all the nay sayers bitched about that. my Q6600 is running strong today. not the fastest duh, but still has life n it.
biggest problem for me is that I cannot support intel anymore. their selling strategies against AMD a few years back was what killed it for me. I also want to support AMD because if AMD goes down, get ready for an intel heavy *** raping on chips. this is my first AMD chip. for certain itll be faster than my current gear.
take all the information you have, see how much youre willing to spend then decide if you want intel or AMD. whatevers good for you and your pocket. me personally? I think I get better bang for the buck. thats me.I researched and this is whats good for me now. all the AMD nay sayers. pleas, lets not have an AMD vs intel thread. lets help Mike. I recommended what I bought and think is worthwhile in terms of bang for the buck. you can recommend what you want.
motherboard I got
GIGABYTE - Motherboard - Socket AM3+ - GA-990FXA-UD3 (rev. 4.0)
memory. corsair 2x4gb sticks. 1600 or you can even go 1333.
SSD I got samsung 120gb evo. it will be the biggest improvement speed wise. access time and lag is minimal compared to any HDD. just make sure to run trim every so often. personally, I prefer to work with 500gb HDD. if a 1tb HDD falls, thats a lot of data. like with memory cards. Id rather use smaller capacity so if one fails, the fall isnt so bad. any wedding I shoot, I first copy them to 2 HDD and burn them all on DVD media as archive. good and bad pictures. then I edit them and erase as I go. burn them and make 3 copies. 1 for me, 1 for the photog I worked for, and another for the BG. I have 3 copies in 3 locations. after a month, I erase it from my HDD. my HDD never hold tons and tons of pictures. dont forget to defrag once in a while.
gtx 660 GPU. will use my lapped TRUE 120 cooler for the new setup. using my old 1000w psu. and old antec 900 case.
at the moment im still with 775 Q6600 . OC to 3.6. evga 780i FTW MB. 4gb ram, xp as well. my new setup will run W7.hell no will I touch W8. havent found the time to connect my new gear for a month now. but im feeling the lag when using the D600 files.
you dont need a lot of money and the improvement (if only because you reinstalled the OS and started clean) will be like blast off to the moon. $600 will be more than enough for nice build that will help you with editing. if you noticed the home PC is declining and tablets and laptops are mainstream. you dont need expensive gear for picture editing. computer hardware are so powerful today that even a cheap setup will be sufficient. it might not be a blink of an eye, but for instance when using acdsee pro, from picture to picture there is a 1-3 second delay on my current build. with the gear I bought(using the pictures on the SSD) I dont think there will be ANY delay. and I only bought 4 cheap components. btw, I bought the FX8320 and will OC a little. get some good goop like arctic silver 5.
looking at price cost, you can get
-8320 $140
-motherboard. doesnt matter. get it with USB 3.0 ports, 1 pcie for GPU. $80-100. if you want I can find one but theres enough to choose from. IMO gigabyte or asus. dont trust anyone else.
-cooler $40
-memory- get 2x4gb sticks. $70
-see if you can use your current case, otherwise you can find one for even $60-70
-see if your psu is more than 500w and use that.
-gpu gtx 650 ti $115
-SSD stay away from OCZ. garbage in every way. the samsung evo 120gb I bought was $120