It's time for me to get a new PC. I am not a gamer.
I would like the best setup for multitasking web/internet activities or occasionally doing video editing/rendering/conversion and graphic design on the Ubuntu operating system.
Examples of what I do are:
Firefox, Opera, Chromium all open at once with up to 20-30 tabs open in each browser... and running a graphic editor (GIMP) at the same time and could have a video editor open too... and I might have imacros running a script in the background. iMacros uses a lot of JavaScript (not Java).
Sometimes I do video conversion from mp4 or avi to DCP or similar tasks. But I was fine just letting it process overnight on my old HP Phenom AMD x4. I don't do this enough to worry or care how long it takes to render or complete the conversion.
The most important thing for me now is to be able to run imacros in the background while I do web/internet/coding type activities with a lot of tabs and browsers open because I have to separate projects by which browser I am using...
I never play games. So I'll just be using the integrated or my old graphics card that was in my old PC. It just needs to be able to play 1080p video without skipping.
So is it more important for me to have more cores like a 5960x or more speed and more modern design like a 6700k? I think the 5960x has a bigger pipe for memory transfer and bigger caches too.
Would it help me to drop my Ghz and get a quad-socket AMD or a dual-socket Xeon?
My main goal is to be able to as many different things at once and I believe that imacros is pretty cpu heavy. I'm running it now and it almost maxes out 2 of the 8 threads on the 4770 intel i7 (Intel® Core™ i7-4770 CPU @ 3.40GHz × 8 - Haswell) that I'm borrowing until I get my new PC, almost maxes it out 2 of the 8 threads periodically (every 10 seconds in a loop.)
I have 13 tabs open in one browser as I close out my work-day. Earlier I had 3 browsers open with 20 tabs in each and running maybe 5-6 different applications at once.
I would like the best setup for multitasking web/internet activities or occasionally doing video editing/rendering/conversion and graphic design on the Ubuntu operating system.
Examples of what I do are:
Firefox, Opera, Chromium all open at once with up to 20-30 tabs open in each browser... and running a graphic editor (GIMP) at the same time and could have a video editor open too... and I might have imacros running a script in the background. iMacros uses a lot of JavaScript (not Java).
Sometimes I do video conversion from mp4 or avi to DCP or similar tasks. But I was fine just letting it process overnight on my old HP Phenom AMD x4. I don't do this enough to worry or care how long it takes to render or complete the conversion.
The most important thing for me now is to be able to run imacros in the background while I do web/internet/coding type activities with a lot of tabs and browsers open because I have to separate projects by which browser I am using...
I never play games. So I'll just be using the integrated or my old graphics card that was in my old PC. It just needs to be able to play 1080p video without skipping.
So is it more important for me to have more cores like a 5960x or more speed and more modern design like a 6700k? I think the 5960x has a bigger pipe for memory transfer and bigger caches too.
Would it help me to drop my Ghz and get a quad-socket AMD or a dual-socket Xeon?
My main goal is to be able to as many different things at once and I believe that imacros is pretty cpu heavy. I'm running it now and it almost maxes out 2 of the 8 threads on the 4770 intel i7 (Intel® Core™ i7-4770 CPU @ 3.40GHz × 8 - Haswell) that I'm borrowing until I get my new PC, almost maxes it out 2 of the 8 threads periodically (every 10 seconds in a loop.)
I have 13 tabs open in one browser as I close out my work-day. Earlier I had 3 browsers open with 20 tabs in each and running maybe 5-6 different applications at once.
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