4670K + Asrock Z97 Pro3 - Good for Video Editing build?

[MrMacca]

Got a friend who is wanting an upgrade to a £600-£700 budget PC for editing Videos.

The Software he runs atm is Serif MoviePlus X6.

With all the other components, I believe I've got about £250 to play with for the CPU and the Motherboard.

Atm I'm leaning towards the following:

Intel Core i5-4690K
ASRock Z97 Pro3 Intel Z97

Would these be a good basis? Also which memory would you recommend?

Thanks in Advance

 

[kefan77]

you can get Xeon 1231v3 + pretty much any 1150 board for that money.

 

[ShivP]

Will he be gaming also?

Any peripherals required? I can attempt the full build, can probably squeeze an i7 in?

I'd take a Gigabyte motherboard as the support is very good and also the build quality is great, not so sure about Asrock support but the boards do seem good on the face of it
I would stick with GB though

 

[MrMacca]

He wants 8 gig of ram, ssd, 2x 3tb hard drives, a psu that will be powerful enough and a Basic looking case as he isn't a gamer or anything. Windows 8.1 too.

He will use it to edit rugby videos and browsing the net. He creates videos

 

[ShivP]

He wants 8 gig of ram, ssd, 2x 3tb hard drives, a psu that will be powerful enough and a Basic looking case as he isn't a gamer or anything. Windows 8.1 too.

He will use it to edit rugby videos and browsing the net. He creates videos

I think 16GB is minimum for video editing really then

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Does he need 6TB of storage?

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[kefan77]

Xeon is a better choice for this use case than 4690k.

Because everyone here recommends 4690k or 4790k, it doesn't mean there aren't other great chips out there.

 

[ShivP]

Xeon is a better choice for this use case than 4690k.

Because everyone here recommends 4690k or 4790k, it doesn't mean there aren't other great chips out there.

I don't believe the serif program uses multi cores, two cores only max I think, so the 4690k would be better as the individual cores are stronger

Scratch that, looking at benchmarks the stock 4690k is only a bit better at single core than the Xeon 1231v3, so it's a viable choice!