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1. Re: Building and economical editing rig with Z68/Z77 chipset, Intel QuickSync, LucidLogic and Cuda Cores
Do not get an i7-2700K, wait till the end of the month and get an i7-3770K. This in your Motherboard will give you PCIe v3.0 for one major advantage.
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2. Re: Building and economical editing rig with Z68/Z77 chipset, Intel QuickSync, LucidLogic and Cuda Cores
Quick Sync takes a ‘black box’ approach which doesn’t give applications that utilise it via its API much control over its parameters so it’s aimed more at home users than professionals. This may change over time but I’m not aware if the API will be extended when the i7-3770K (Ivy Bridge) is released. Ivy Bridge has improved hardware performance for Quick Sync which generally seems to be tuned for performance rather than visual quality or flexibility.
“Do not get an i7-2700K, wait till the end of the month and get an i7-3770K. This in your Motherboard will give you PCIe v3.0 for one major advantage.” Bill Gehrke
Bill, are there any benchmarks showing that PCIe 3 offers real world gains with the MPE?
Be aware that if you already have a Z68 board that only some of them support PCIe 3 regardless of which CPU you use. Even though the PCIe controller is on the CPU the board has to have compliant PCIe circuitry; traces etc.
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3. Re: Building and economical editing rig with Z68/Z77 chipset, Intel QuickSync, LucidLogic and Cuda Cores
Gehrke
Bill, are there any benchmarks showing that PCIe 3 offers real world gains with the MPE?
Be aware that if you already have a Z68 board that only some of them support PCIe 3 regardless of which CPU you use. Even though the PCIe controller is on the CPU the board has to have compliant PCIe circuitry; traces etc.
I do not know of any yet that are applicable to Premiere. And I do know that my Z68 Gigabyte board is PCIe 3.0 compatible--when I get my hands on a CPU that has the built in features, and that requires a 1155 pin Ivy Bridge CPU, i. e an i7-3770.
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4. Re: Building and economical editing rig with Z68/Z77 chipset, Intel QuickSync, LucidLogic and Cuda Cores
Actually, early benchmarks indicate that you may be in for somewhat of a disappointment with IB and Z77.
The IB CPUs (at least in their initially released stepping) will not overclock nearly as high as the SB chips because the IB chips get very hot at even moderate overclocks. In fact, Intel is releasing the IB CPUs with a TDP of 95W (same as SB) instead of the originally promised 77W.
Second, some early benchmarks showed that the average Z77 board is a bit slower (performance-wise) than its Z68 counterpart.