£350-£400 Video Editing PC?

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Hey all

Usually I'd be fine with specc'ing up a PC but I've been a bit out of touch with products lately so need OcUK assistance :D.

Brother has £350-£400 to spend on a video editing PC, and has asked me to build it for him. I know for sure he needs 16gb ram, 1TB hard drive and an SSD to make the pc snappy.

CPU wise I'm not too sure whether Intel or AMD??? I know Intel has integrated graphics, but wondering if even a £30 graphics card will help with the video editing? OR would an AMD be better and cheaper? (tight budget!)

Hope some of you can spec up - he just needs components specc'd, has kb mouse monitor already.

Thanks
 
Does he need an OS? I think AMD would probably be better as for video editing cores = speed so something like an FX 6300/8320 would be nice :)

EDIT: Assuming you don't need an OS of course;

YOUR BASKET
1 x Avexir Venom Series 16GB (2x8GB) DDR3 PC3-17200C11 2133MHz Dual Channel Memory Kit (AVD3U21331108G-2CIG) - Green Light £119.99
1 x AMD Piledriver FX-6 Six Core 6300 Black Edition 3.50GHz (Socket AM3+) Processor - Retail £79.99
1 x SK Hynix 128GB SSD SH910A SATA 6Gb/s Solid State Drive (HFS128G32MNB-2201A) £49.99
1 x Seagate Barracuda 7200RPM 1TB SATA 6Gb/s 64MB Cache - OEM (ST1000DM003) HDD £43.99
1 x **B Grade** Asus M5A97 LE R2.0 AMD 970 (Socket AM3+) DDR3 (MB-597-AS) £37.99
1 x Corsair Builder Series CX 430W V2 '80 Plus Bronze' Power Supply (CP-9020046-UK) £34.99
1 x Palit GeForce GT 730 SILENT 1024MB GDDR3 PCI-Express Graphics Card £34.99
1 x Xigmatek Mach Midi-Tower Black £19.99
Total : £421.93 (includes shipping : ).



You should get free shipping with the 250 posts + thingy bob :)

YOUR BASKET
1 x Avexir Venom Series 16GB (2x8GB) DDR3 PC3-17200C11 2133MHz Dual Channel Memory Kit (AVD3U21331108G-2CIG) - Green Light £119.99
1 x AMD Piledriver FX-6 Six Core 6300 Black Edition 3.50GHz (Socket AM3+) Processor - Retail £79.99
1 x Gigabyte 970A-DS3P AMD 970A (Socket AM3+) DDR3 Motherboard £50.99
1 x SK Hynix 128GB SSD SH910A SATA 6Gb/s Solid State Drive (HFS128G32MNB-2201A) £49.99
1 x Seagate Barracuda 7200RPM 1TB SATA 6Gb/s 64MB Cache - OEM (ST1000DM003) HDD £43.99
1 x Corsair Builder Series CX 430W V2 '80 Plus Bronze' Power Supply (CP-9020046-UK) £34.99
1 x Palit GeForce GT 730 SILENT 1024MB GDDR3 PCI-Express Graphics Card £34.99
1 x Xigmatek Mach Midi-Tower Black £19.99
Total : £434.93 (includes shipping : ).

 
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YOUR BASKET
1 x Avexir Venom Series 16GB (2x8GB) DDR3 PC3-17200C11 2133MHz Dual Channel Memory Kit (AVD3U21331108G-2CIG) - Green Light £119.99
1 x AMD Kaveri 7700K 10 Compute Core APU w/ Radeon R7 Graphics (4 CPU + 6 GPU Compute Cores) - Retail £109.99
1 x SK Hynix 128GB SSD SH910A SATA 6Gb/s Solid State Drive (HFS128G32MNB-2201A) £49.99
1 x Gigabyte F2A88XM-HD3 AMD A88X (Socket FM2+) DDR3 Micro ATX Motherboard £46.99
1 x Seagate Barracuda 7200RPM 1TB SATA 6Gb/s 64MB Cache - OEM (ST1000DM003) HDD £43.99
1 x SuperFlower Golden Green HX 350W "80 Plus Gold" Power Supply - Black £34.99
1 x Xigmatek Mach Midi-Tower Black £19.99
Total : £435.54 (includes shipping : £8.00).




You get all sorts of encoding/decoding and OpenGL/CL acceleration from this Kaveri APU.

The IGP is roughly equivalent to a R7 250.

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YOUR BASKET
1 x TeamGroup Elite Black 16GB (2x8GB) DDR3 PC3-12800C11 1600MHz Dual Channel Kit (TPKD316G1600HC11DC01) £119.99
1 x AMD Piledriver FX-6 Six Core 6300 Black Edition 3.50GHz (Socket AM3+) Processor - Retail £79.99
1 x Gigabyte 970A-DS3P AMD 970A (Socket AM3+) DDR3 Motherboard £50.99
1 x SK Hynix 128GB SSD SH910A SATA 6Gb/s Solid State Drive (HFS128G32MNB-2201A) £49.99
1 x Sapphire Radeon R7 240 Boost 1024MB GDDR5 PCI-Express Card £43.99
1 x Seagate Barracuda 7200RPM 1TB SATA 6Gb/s 64MB Cache - OEM (ST1000DM003) HDD £43.99
1 x SuperFlower Golden Green HX 350W "80 Plus Gold" Power Supply - Black £34.99
1 x Xigmatek Mach Midi-Tower Black £19.99
Total : £453.53 (includes shipping : £8.00).

 
Shivy011 said:
Does he need an OS? I think AMD would probably be better as for video editing cores = speed so something like an FX 6300/8320 would be nice :)

EDIT: Assuming you don't need an OS of course;

YOUR BASKET
1 x Avexir Venom Series 16GB (2x8GB) DDR3 PC3-17200C11 2133MHz Dual Channel Memory Kit (AVD3U21331108G-2CIG) - Green Light £119.99
1 x AMD Piledriver FX-6 Six Core 6300 Black Edition 3.50GHz (Socket AM3+) Processor - Retail £79.99
1 x SK Hynix 128GB SSD SH910A SATA 6Gb/s Solid State Drive (HFS128G32MNB-2201A) £49.99
1 x Seagate Barracuda 7200RPM 1TB SATA 6Gb/s 64MB Cache - OEM (ST1000DM003) HDD £43.99
1 x **B Grade** Asus M5A97 LE R2.0 AMD 970 (Socket AM3+) DDR3 (MB-597-AS) £37.99
1 x Corsair Builder Series CX 430W V2 '80 Plus Bronze' Power Supply (CP-9020046-UK) £34.99
1 x Palit GeForce GT 730 SILENT 1024MB GDDR3 PCI-Express Graphics Card £34.99
1 x Xigmatek Mach Midi-Tower Black £19.99
Total : £421.93 (includes shipping : ).



You should get free shipping with the 250 posts + thingy bob :)
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No good.

No VRM cooling;) so the CPU will likely throttle;)


The Superflower PSU is also only 3amps less, yet Gold rated and better internals such as Japanese capacitors;)
 
Wow, wasn't expecting so many replies.

Will take a look now :).

Edit:

As the 7700K has an integrated GPU does that mean the number of cores (4) vs the 8 on the PileDriver will see noticeable decrease in performance?

Edit 2: What is AMDs latest line? FM2? Can't quite work it out lol!
 
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FM2+ is newer than FM2, APUs/Athlons use FM2/FM2+, the FX line is AM3.

The FX6300 = 6 cores, it will be faster than the Kaveri.
 
Probably.

As long as the GFX card is like a R7 240/250 then thats roughly equivalent to the Kaveri.

P.S its AM3.
 
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