I need you pc building specialists assistance.
I need to form a pc before the 30th, It's going to be a video editing PC.
Currently I'm running an 8 year old pc that just cant handle the abuse the video editing gives it.
Currently:
AMD Athlon II X4 630 2.80GHz
4 gigs of ram
64 bit
I know compared to new technology thats not high quality but over the years it has done ALOT and I don't regret the time used but I need something more advanced.
Keep in mind I never built a PC before but I need it for my business and it mid range cost
Currently looking at the pic posted but may not need to replace my current graphics card since it runs fine with current editing.
Im looking for a powerful pc for a good price Looking to keep it under 1k
If you can lay out a build spec I should focus on Id appreciate it.
>>919262
>>>/wsr/
Anyhoo, video editing needs three things:
Storage bandwidth
RAM
Backplane bandwidth
You are not building a conventional PC, so ignore people giving advice on how to do that.
Part one: as much, and as fast, RAM as you can afford. If you can, go for two sockets, because that means two memory controllers, which means twice as much RAM.
Part two: storage with high throughput. You don't actually need an SSD here, though SSDs are nice in general. Hard disks in mirrored RAID are perfectly acceptable for offline editing, as (due to you adequately provisioning the RAM) there are no random accesses, just big-long sequential slurps. If your tools let you have a scratch disk, or you're using one of those hierarchical cache programs, by all means get a PCIe SSD to act as swap/scratch/cache.
Part three used to be hard, but now it's just a case of making sure the path from each device to your RAM is not bottlenecked. This may mean adding in additional storage controllers if the ones that come with your motherboard aren't up to it, but they will be, because you got a decent dual-socket workstation motherboard in step one, right?
Part zero: you don't need much of a GPU, because the rendering doesn't use it, and the UI works with reduced-resolution thumbnails. You could probly even get away with an NVS or onboard graphics.
>>919262
IOW, that build you posted is a gaming PC, not a video workstation.
You've blown 75% of your budget, and despite storage being the single most important thing to video editing, you haven't even addressed it yet.
>>919262
Instead of building one, maybe just buy something like http://cgi.ebay.com/181962837790 .
It's a bit old (Sandy Bridge), but it's still got two processors, twelve cores, 64GB, and 1TB of storage across two disks connected through a proper RAID controller.
In the long-run, the drives can be replaced with 4-6TB ones, and the Xeons can be swapped out for faster, eight-core ones. I think there might even be a twelve-core Sandy Bridge one.
I do a lot of video editing. Just built a rig and its blazing fast.
ASRock X99 Extreme6 mobo
128GB of DDR4 3000 ram
Intel Core i7-5930K Haswell-E 6-Core 3.5 GHz
SAMSUNG 950 PRO M.2 512GB PCI-Express 3.0 x4 Internal SSD
I use the samsung M.2 drive for my cache and working folder on projects. I also have an ssd for the OS and VMs, and 9 spinners configured in raidz2.
The four devices Above I built my system around were 2,200
