New Build for photo/video editing (£600-700 budget)

Paul Madden

Paul Madden

Paul Madden

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I am looking to get back into photography and at some point video editing as well, but I am totally out of touch with all things PC related these days, I use a chromebook...but the last system I built myself contained a Fatal1ty F190HD MB and E4400, which you will know now is very old.

I have access to a monitor/keyboard/mouse, and salvaged a Corsair HX520W PSU from the old system (but happy to be told I should probably get a better PSU).
I'm under no illusion that £600-700 isn't the best budget for a video editing system, but the majority will be photo editing (Lightroom and Photoshop), and the video would be 1080p from GoPro. I won't be playing any games on it. I will upgrade parts in future as I get more involved in video editing/start doing 4k video.

If somebody could help spec me some parts for a quick editing system, I would really appreciate the help.

Cheers,
Paul
 
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might be worth having a look at how the ryzen 5 performs. Supposed to be releasing on 11 April. Should be able to get a 4 core 8 thread under £200 which will hopefully be better for editing than what's currently available in that price range.
 
Do you need Windows, and what storage set-up are you thinking of, other than (presumably an SSD). Do you already have a back-up storage solution like NAS/external drive/Cloud or could you do with an extra internal HDD (if so, what size).

How old is the HX520 PSU?
 
StarShock said:
might be worth having a look at how the ryzen 5 performs. Supposed to be releasing on 11 April. Should be able to get a 4 core 8 thread under £200 which will hopefully be better for editing than what's currently available in that price range.
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Yeah I am prepared to wait if people think the Ryzen 5's will be worth waiting for. I would quite like to support AMD, my first build was around an Athlon.

Danny75 said:
Do you need Windows, and what storage set-up are you thinking of, other than (presumably an SSD). Do you already have a back-up storage solution like NAS/external drive/Cloud or could you do with an extra internal HDD (if so, what size).

How old is the HX520 PSU?
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I've budgeted for the O/S (Windows 10) and other software separately so all good on that front. Ideally boot and programs on SSD - so would need this included, just not sure which ones are good value/performance. In terms of HDDs I have a couple of Samsung spinpoints that can be used for now - I'll upgrade these separately in a month or two.
The HX520 I would say approaching 10 years as that's when I built the old system and can't remember replacing the PSU - but it hasn't really been used in the last 5 years.
 
Paul Madden said:
Yeah I am prepared to wait if people think the Ryzen 5's will be worth waiting for. I would quite like to support AMD, my first build was around an Athlon.



I've budgeted for the O/S (Windows 10) and other software separately so all good on that front. Ideally boot and programs on SSD - so would need this included, just not sure which ones are good value/performance. In terms of HDDs I have a couple of Samsung spinpoints that can be used for now - I'll upgrade these separately in a month or two.
The HX520 I would say approaching 10 years as that's when I built the old system and can't remember replacing the PSU - but it hasn't really been used in the last 5 years.
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Probably best to wait for 5 then. With Ryzen 7 it's easy to go over budget and still missing a case, simple GPU to get you going, and new PSU (preferable):

My basket at Overclockers UK:

Total: £720.46
(includes shipping: £10.50)



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Alternatively, you could pick up a cheaper 120GB SSD and add an M.2 for Cache/Scratch Disk later. And that would give you around £80 for a case and basic GPU. But wait for Ryzen 5 to see what performance it's getting, and then you have more info to help you decide what to go for.
 
Danny75 said:
Probably best to wait for 5 then. With Ryzen 7 it's easy to go over budget and still missing a case, simple GPU to get you going, and new PSU (preferable):

My basket at Overclockers UK:

Total: £720.46
(includes shipping: £10.50)



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Alternatively, you could pick up a cheaper 120GB SSD and add an M.2 for Cache/Scratch Disk later. And that would give you around £80 for a case and basic GPU. But wait for Ryzen 5 to see what performance it's getting, and then you have more info to help you decide what to go for.
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Thanks for this, it's really helpful. I'll wait until Ryzen 5 and go from there with what you've suggested. Cheers to everybody else too.
 
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