Ordered new 3XS Z87 Vengeance 780 custom system, opinions?

[smernt]

Hi guys,

So while I am a pretty big tech-buff, I have a fairly basic knowledge of computer hardware itself. The current system that I have was put together by my friend who know a lot more about this stuff than me. This system is a few years old now and I felt the need for an upgrade so rather than bother my friend again I decided to order a 3xs system from scan.

I use my PC for gaming, but I'm also a filmmaker so use it for editing, vfx etc also. I was wondering if you guys could take a look at the specs of my current PC and the specs of the new one I've just ordered and let me know your opinions on these systems/the power difference etc?

My current system:

i7 2600K
16GB Ram 4x4gb (corsair XMS)
1TB HITACHI SATA HDD
Antec 902 v3 Case
SH-S222AB/BEBE 22x dvdrw
1GB EVGA GTX560
MSI Z68A-G45-B3 MoBo
620W ANTEC NEOECO MODULAR PSU
CM V6 GT CPU Cooler
Win 8 Pro 64-bit


My new system (arrives in October):

Corsair Carbide Series 500R Black Mid Tower Gaming Case
Motherboard - MSI Z87-G45 Gaming
CPU: Intel Core i7 4770K Haswell 3.5GHz
CPU Coolers: Corsair H100i Hydro
Memory - DDR3: 16GB (2x8GB) Corsair Vengeance Pro Silver 2133MHz
NVIDIA Graphics - 2x SLI 3GB EVGA GTX 780 863MHz
Power Supply Unit: 850W Corsair Pro HX. Modular 80PLUS Gold 90% Efficiency (Dual GPUs)
Solid State Drives: 256GB Samsung 840 Pro
System Drives: 3TB Seagate Barracuda SATA 6Gb s 7200rpm 64MB Cache
Optical Drive 1 - DVD Blu Ray: LiteOn IHAS124 24x DVD Reader and Writer
Operating system: Microsoft Windows 8 64bit - OEM

Cheers guys!

[kalniel]

Need an ego massage? Post-purchase blues?

Your new system will do, I suppose Your old one was weak graphically, but your new one is the opposite - more GPU power than you need for anything at the moment. Interesting that you've gone down the gaming power route if you needed more umph for vfx work - I'd have thought that professional software would probably benefit more from moving to workstation cards, but that would cost you a little more. Likewise you've gone with the efficient desktop processor and gaming motherboard, rather than the Xeon route, but I guess if it's not mission critical then it's worth the money saving and efficiency boost. As an out and out gaming rig though, it's great (overkill, actually).

[smernt]

Haha, post-purchase blues for sure, I'm an impulse purchaser so this happens to me all the time, think I'd have learn't by now, especially cos I often spend money I don't have, lol!

Yea since I game on it as well as working on vfx, i figured i'd go for a more gaming route since i read that workstation cards don't handle games too well & gaming cards, while not being as good as workstations for vfx etc, they would be ok. Another reasoning for the 780s was that i read that Andrew Kramer, the guy who runs the videocopilot website, was given two titan gpu's to create & render the end credit sequence for the new star trek movie. That was done at imax resolution, so I figured I would go for the next closest thing that's cheaper.

The dual cards should come in more useful for rendering vfx etc than gaming, but at the same time I was hoping I was 'futureproofing' the gaming aspect of the cards a little by hopefully making them work well at 4k resolution. Not sure if that will be the case though.