Is the 5600Mhz RAM speed suitable for the I7-14700?
Is the 5600Mhz RAM speed suitable for the I7-14700?
Reports suggest using 6000Mhz for overclocking or boosting, which isn't necessary here. Some warn it might cause instability. I plan to run standard settings on a Gigabyte Z790 EAGLE AX ATX LGA1700 board. Likely to use G.Skill Ripjaws S5 64 GB (2 x 32 GB) DDR5-5600 CL28.
The optimal choice for DDR5 RAM is DDR5-6000MHz or DDR5-6000MT/s with minimal delays. For a more advanced setup, consider DDR5-6600MHz or DDR5-6600MT/s on your Intel system.
What workloads will stress the hardware? With a Z790 motherboard, go with the i7-14700K. For an i7-14700 without K or F SKU, you can switch to a B series chipset (like B760) while keeping DDR5-6000MHz or a bit faster RAM.
Taxing involves light photo and video editing, solar system asteroid orbital simulations where loading stellar data causes maximum power and CPU usage on my old i5 8000 series with 2Gb RAM video card and 16Gb RAM. No gaming included in the plans.
Edit;
I'm configuring this new build with the K suffix mainly as a backup to a gifted Vcard - Radeon Pro WX 3200 4GB GDDR5. I'm not sure how much that card outperforms the 770 integrated graphics on the CPU.
Misgar, that is an interesting read.
So no need to try the gifted vcard. Strange, as my old desktop (Dell i5-87?? 16 Gb, with a NVIDEA 2Gb Quadro) did okay editing 5-10 minute video shot on a GoPro 8 Black. Granted it was not heavy editing. Mostly clipping, adding soundtrack, etc. I do not plan on heavy gaming, loading LLMs, or rendering complex CAD models.
When you say a much faster graphics card, are we talking "modern"? Like a Radeon RX 580 8GB ($107), or GIGABYTE GeForce RTX 3050 )$198), or maybe a GTX 1060 6GB Graphics Card GDDR5 ($149)?
Just go with the i7-14700 and see... with the position that I can add a low end card later if I feel the UHD seem to not work out. The MOBO is a Gigabyte Z790 EAGLE AX ATX LGA1700 with several PCIe slots, and the PSU is a be quiet! Straight Power 12 850 W 80+ Platinum. Estimated 400 watts total. A low end 6Gb card will add ~100 watts.
GPU prices are pretty inflated at the moment. Probably only get higher!
I own a pair of RX 580 8GB graphics cards, but for my needs (keeping old DAT camcorder footage stable on rough roads and upscaling from 1080p to 4K in Topaz Video AI), the older 580 models are almost useless. I purchased my first 580 new and the second one for around US $70 on eBay.
For heavy CPU/GPU tasks, I used an RTX 3060 12GB for two years before switching to an RTX 4070 12GB in 2024. Even after that upgrade, upscaling a two-hour video to 4K still takes about ten hours with the newer card.
Checking benchmark scores on the Puget Systems website suggests I could benefit from an RTX 5090 or RTX A6000, but those would be quite expensive.
https://www.pugetsystems.com/soluti...be...tions/#gpu
If you're not focusing on resolution enhancement or video stabilization, the integrated graphics in the 14700 should suffice. However, if you apply complex Premiere Pro plugins or advanced effects in DaVinci Resolve on long clips, you might need to be patient or run the software overnight.
I wouldn't purchase a card with less than 8GB of VRAM for modern GPU-intensive work. A 12GB card is ideal and 16GB or more is better for resolutions above 4K.
When I check Topaz Video AI processing via CPUID HWMonitor, I see the maximum power draw is 190W (7950X), up to 200W (RTX 4070). It's clear the software is utilizing both the iGPU and the main GPU. The overall continuous power consumption for the system comes to around 430W.
I've faced issues with both the 3060 and 4070 in Topaz, experiencing crashes. I resolved them by using MSI Afterburner and setting the GPU power limit to 95%. I'm curious if my old Corsair RM850x is affected by high transient current spikes from the GPU. Perhaps I should consider a new ATX power supply rated for 3.0/3.1 with a 200% transient protection instead of the standard 120%.