Need help upgrading for recording

[ksabatino]

Hi there I need help upgrading my computer to better handle recording and editing for now. I plan to start a game developing course soon so I need a computer that can handle rendering.

Right now I have
CPU: Intel i5-3570K
Video card: AMD Radeon HD 7800 series (I just bought a GTX 980 TI that hasn't been installed, whole point of this upgrade)
16GB ram
750 Watt power
Sabertooth Z77 motherboard

This is what I was thinking of upgrading to
CPU: Intel i7-6700K skylake
1000 Watt power
and of course the GTX 980TI

Please let me know if this is a good idea? And do I need a specific cooling system for the cpu? (complete noob with these things)

 

[davidarad02]

I generally think that for these kinds of tasks, buying a 6700k is pointless, as you can get a 5820k setup for around the same price:

PCPartPicker part list / Price breakdown by merchant

CPU: Intel Core i7-5820K 3.3GHz 6-Core Processor ($351.98 @ Newegg)
CPU Cooler: Cooler Master Hyper 212 EVO 82.9 CFM Sleeve Bearing CPU Cooler ($28.99 @ Newegg)
Motherboard: Gigabyte GA-X99-SLI ATX LGA2011-3 Motherboard ($159.99 @ Amazon)
Memory: Corsair Vengeance LPX 32GB (4 x 8GB) DDR4-2400 Memory ($129.99 @ Newegg)
Total: $670.95
Prices include shipping, taxes, and discounts when available
Generated by PCPartPicker 2016-03-25 04:03 EDT-0400

your current psu is probably fine unless you think about SLI'ing it later

 

[mamasan2000]

Why would you get 1000 W PSU when your system pulls maybe 400-500 W? You should be totally fine with your old 750.
Skylake CPUs don't come with CPU cooler so you need aftermarket part for that.

Are you talking about working in 3dsmax, lightwave or similar? I don't know the specifics of those programs. Do they use Cuda, OpenCL to speed up rendering? Cuda is Nvidias, OpenCL is AMDs. IIRC Nvidias current cards aren't fully compatible with DX12 either. Might matter. No Async compute support in hardware. Could be other parts too.

What are the rendering engines using now? In 6 months? Would a GPU offload rendering, making it faster? Which brand, AMD or Nvidia would be faster/more compatible with future APIs etc?

 

[ksabatino]

So you're saying I should upgrade my Motherboard as well?
Does the motherboard you picked there support DVI? I use a monitor that still uses DVI

 

[mamasan2000]

Your mobo doesnt support Skylake so yeah, need a new one but not necessarily one with SLI.

GPU has the outputs so DVI should be on it.

 

[ksabatino]

Well thank you all you were awesome