New PC

rvitucci wrote on 8/22/2015, 12:29 PM
My new Maingear Shift Z170 has been ordered & is being built next week, did I miss anything important that should be added??

SHIFT - Best Configuration Z170 (system-SHIFT-Best-Z170)
Special Promotions: Customize your ultimate gaming PC with Intel® CoreT i7 or i5 Processors and receive 5 free games!
Special Promotions: [AMD Radeon R9 Graphics Required] Free Game! Dirt Rally
Chassis: MAINGEAR SHIFT Chassis with Advanced Vertical Heat Dissipation
Exterior Finish: Brushed Black Aluminum
Interior Finish: Stock Black
Chassis Modification: AcoustiPack Ultimate Sound Dampening
Chassis Modification: Performance Chassis Cooling Upgrade
Motherboard: Gigabyte Z170 G1
Processor: Intel® CoreT i7 6700k 4.GHz/4.2GHz Turbo QUAD Core CPU w/ Hyperthreading 8MB L3 Cache Free Upgrade from the i5-6600k While Supplies Last!
Processor Cooling: MAINGEAR EPIC 300 Supercooler
Enhanced Thermal Interface Material: MAINGEAR EPIC T1000 Rev2 Metal Alloy Thermal Interface Material
MAINGEAR Redline Overclocking Service: YES! - Redline? Overclock My System!
Memory: 32GB Corsair® DOMINATORT Platinum DDR4-3000(4x8GB) [Dual Channel]
Graphics Card: AMD Radeon R9 Fury X 4GB HBM with FreeSync
Power Supply: 860 Watt Corsair® Professional Digital Series AX860 80+ Platinum Certified Modular Power Supply ROHS
Power Supply Sleeving: Power Supply Sleeving - RED
Operating System Drive: [NVME SSD] 400GB Intel® 750 Series 2.5" PCI-Express 3.0 MLC - please click for configuration information
Hard Drive Bay Two: [NVME SSD] 400GB Intel® 750 Series 2.5" PCI-Express 3.0 MLC - please click for configuration information
Hard Drive Bay Three: Pre-Wired SATA Backplane Expansion Bracket For Easy Upgrades
Hard Drive Bay Four: Pre-Wired SATA Backplane Expansion Bracket For Easy Upgrades
Hard Drive Bay Five: Pre-Wired SATA Backplane Expansion Bracket For Easy Upgrades
Hard Drive Bay Six: Pre-Wired SATA Backplane Expansion Bracket For Easy Upgrades
Optical Drive One: 12X LG SuperMulti Blu-ray/DVD Burner with Software
Optical Drive Two: 12X LG SuperMulti Blu-ray/DVD Burner with Software
Audio: Asus® Xonar Essence STX 2.1-channel ONLY PCI-E [AUDIOPHILE]
Ethernet Adapter: On-board Gigabit Ethernet
Operating System: Microsoft Windows 10 Professional 64-bit
Security Software: None
Productivity Software: Office Home & Student 2013
Memory Card Reader: All-in-One Integrated USB 3.0 Flash Card Reader & Writer
The Final Finesse: Designed, Manufactured, and Supported in the USA - Flawless Craftsmanship and Wire Management
Angelic Service Warranty: Lifetime Angelic Service Labor and Phone Support with 3 Year Comprehensive Warranty
MAINGEAR Premium "Out of Box" Experience: MAINGEAR Premium "Out of Box" Experience - LARGE T-SHIRT

Comments

ddm wrote on 8/22/2015, 1:25 PM
>>>Exterior Finish: Brushed Black Aluminum

I think you want Deep Envy Green, no? At least, that's what I'm seeing.
rvitucci wrote on 8/22/2015, 1:37 PM
Nice!! I did contemplate having it painted Redline Red to match my 2015 Dodge Challenger SRT Hellcat but decided to use the money to get the 32GB of Corsair Dominator Platinum.
winrockpost wrote on 8/22/2015, 2:25 PM
cool you get a shirt!!
nice warranty,,but wow they seem pricey, on the drives and other options...not sure I would even get the second drive, unless it has something to do with the warranty.
.should be a really nice system!
rvitucci wrote on 8/22/2015, 3:08 PM
MG's pricing is no doubt high when compared to mainstream PC builders but they are very competitive compared to Falcon Northwest & other hi end PC builders. My current Shift has basically been running non-stop for 5 years with absolutely no issues & the build quality is second to none so I feel very comfortable paying a little extra.

The 2nd Intel NVME 750 is the drive I will be using for Vegas & I will continue to use the 840 Pro for capturing video. The 840 & WD Blacks are being transplanted from my current Shift.
rvitucci wrote on 10/7/2015, 11:35 AM
So I've been using the new Shift quite extensively for about a month now. This thing smokes with Vegas. With my old Shift I was able to render about 575 frames of video per minute, now I'm pretty much rendering video in real time!
PeterDuke wrote on 10/7/2015, 7:11 PM
How many frames per minute is real time? (50/60 i/p)

with/without GPU?
rvitucci wrote on 10/8/2015, 6:46 AM
Most of the video I work with has been captured with my Epiphan DVI2USB 3.0 using Open Broadcaster Software so it's MPEG-4 @ 1080p/60.

GPU on, got to take advantage of the processing power of the Fury X. I got it in this build specifically for Vegas, my timeline & preview runs super smooth now.
Stringer wrote on 10/8/2015, 1:25 PM
Which rendering codec are you using?
JohnnyRoy wrote on 10/8/2015, 9:54 PM
> "did I miss anything important that should be added??"

It's 2015 and you're building a Quad Core? I would expect at least a Hex Core. I'm using a 12-Core Mac Pro which I upgraded from my 6-Core PC which was 3 years old. Personally, I wouldn't waste money on only 4 cores when Vegas Pro is mostly a CPU bound application. But that's just my personal opinion.

~jr
rvitucci wrote on 10/10/2015, 12:18 AM
Sony AVC 1080i/29.97

John, I agree but I'm not a professional editor, it's just a hobby. For everyday use, I prefer the larger cores of a quad core.
PeterDuke wrote on 10/10/2015, 7:00 PM
"I prefer the larger cores of a quad core"

But the 6700K uses the new Skylake architecture based on 14 nm technology. In what way are the cores larger?
rvitucci wrote on 10/16/2015, 8:20 AM
Pete,

Larger was the wrong term to use as I wasn't referring to the actual physical size of each core, especially when comparing different generations of processors where a die shrink has occurred. I was referring to the processing power/clock speed of each core.
OldSmoke wrote on 10/16/2015, 9:11 AM
[I] was referring to the processing power/clock speed of each core. [/I]

Even an old 3930K at 4.3GHz will beat your new quad core. Depending on what you edit, I would at least have build a hex core and as minimum a 4930K which can be easily clocked to 4.5GHz and prices have dropped too or a 5930K system.

Once you get into 4K, even SCS recommends a hex core.

Proud owner of Sony Vegas Pro 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12 & 13 and now Magix VP15&16.

System Spec.:
Motherboard: ASUS X299 Prime-A

Ram: G.Skill 4x8GB DDR4 2666 XMP

CPU: i7-9800x @ 4.6GHz (custom water cooling system)
GPU: 1x AMD Vega Pro Frontier Edition (water cooled)
Hard drives: System Samsung 970Pro NVME, AV-Projects 1TB (4x Intel P7600 512GB VROC), 4x 2.5" Hotswap bays, 1x 3.5" Hotswap Bay, 1x LG BluRay Burner

PSU: Corsair 1200W
Monitor: 2x Dell Ultrasharp U2713HM (2560x1440)

rvitucci wrote on 10/16/2015, 10:10 AM
Smoke,

I totally agree when running 64-bit applications like Vegas that can actually take advantage of the extra cores. Like I said in my earlier post, I'm not a professional editor, it's just a hobby for me & I have no plans or need to start working with 4k anytime soon. I only use my system roughly 15-20% of the time editing/rendering video the rest of the time I'm either recording/capturing, surfing the web, or playing games & the quad core is more than enough as I rarely push it to the limit. If I was a pro I would have had a Xeon based system built.