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aVdub

aVdub

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I know this is one of those what what what posts and if in the wrong place, sorry or I speak/email direct with Overclockers that would be fine.

I used to build pc's years ago and am considering one now for working on 4k and 360 videos and tbh the world of components has changed so much that I am struggling.

I'd like to spend £1600 and would seek parts that are not function over looking bling.

Areas I'm struggling with are CPU - GPU - Ram - Board

I'm good with AMD Ryzen - AMD Board and Nvidia cards and I've always used Kingston & Crucial, but again am open to suggestions.

Thank you for any suggestions
 
aVdub said:
I'll be using Davinci, insta360 with something from Adobe later perhaps.
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You might want to read this, to help with your choice:

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From what I'm aware, AMD cards still perform pretty well in Davinci, but nvidia is still preferable for most workstation-type software.

Core Ultra CPUs are competitive for productivity, e.g. 245K/265K, but AMD's 9000 series is better rounded with no real weaknesses. Core Ultra CPUs still perform lower than they should in some apps/tasks, even with the latest updates.
 
Intel is the better platform for video editing with the Quicksync media engines supporting 10-bit 4:2:2 h265….and the 265k is hard to beat generally for productivity and value.
 
Thank you for the replies.

If it helps I could quite easily drop DaVinci as this is not an important part of what I do with the PC and concentrate more on the Insta 360 software side of things.
 
mid_gen said:
Intel is the better platform for video editing with the Quicksync media engines supporting 10-bit 4:2:2 h265….and the 265k is hard to beat generally for productivity and value.
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this really but still needs to be paired with an Nvidia GPU, I would steer clear of AMD GPU for your use case. If you wan to splash out Intel 295k plus 64/32GB ram of your choosing and 5080 or 5070ti. The problem is that is much larger than your budget and you were like 2 month too late, the prices of ram and GPU have skyrocketed. You also must have NVME drives this will help your editing a lot but can use mechanical for long term storage.

something like this if you can afford it, unfortunately it will spill over your budget

Intel 285k/5080/64GB ram for high end system
Intel 265k/5070ti/5070/32GB ram for mid ranged system ( 5070 if budget does not allow.)
Inte 265k/5060ti/32GB ram for lower end system

I would recommend Nvidia GPU and at least 32GB ram for video editing but the RAM alone is almost £400 of your budget gone. I would also recommend the 5070ti/ over the 5060Ti as its over 40% faster or even a 5070.
 
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AMDPower said:
this really but still needs to be paired with an Nvidia GPU, I would steer clear of AMD GPU for your use case. If you wan to splash out Intel 295k plus 64/32GB ram of your choosing and 5080 or 5070ti. The problem is that is much larger than your budget and you were like 2 month too late, the prices of ram and GPU have skyrocketed. You also must have NVME drives this will help your editing a lot but can use mechanical for long term storage.

something like this if you can afford it, unfortunately it will spill over your budget

Intel 285k/5080/64GB ram for high end system
Intel 265k/5070ti/5070/32GB ram for mid ranged system ( 5070 if budget does not allow.)
Inte 265k/5060ti/32GB ram for lower end system

I would recommend Nvidia GPU and at least 32GB ram for video editing but the RAM alone is almost £400 of your budget gone. I would also recommend the 5070ti/ over the 5060Ti as its over 40% faster or even a 5070.
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I'm thinking that if I can scrape by for now and upgrade when prices are more favourable, but obviously not end up with a machine that just gathers dust.
 
aVdub said:
I'm thinking that if I can scrape by for now and upgrade when prices are more favourable, but obviously not end up with a machine that just gathers dust.
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I understand and many are doing this, postponing upgrading their system until prices are more favourable, the only caveat I have to add is that its could be a long time until prices return to something resembling sane prices. I might be 12-24 months possibly, I don't see either GPU or RAM prices dropping before this time frame, but market is difficult to predict at the moment, something might happen and prices return to normal.

What is you current system?
 
AMDPower said:
I understand and many are doing this, postponing upgrading their system until prices are more favourable, the only caveat I have to add is that its could be a long time until prices return to something resembling sane prices. I might be 12-24 months possibly, I don't see either GPU or RAM prices dropping before this time frame, but market is difficult to predict at the moment, something might happen and prices return to normal.

What is you current system?
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I'm will to play the long game if I can get by for now and don't mind spending more later.

My current system fits in your hand and does 4k 360insta, but struggles badly when exporting.
 
aVdub said:
I'm will to play the long game if I can get by for now and don't mind spending more later.

My current system fits in your hand and does 4k 360insta, but struggles badly when exporting.
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this is the best strategy, buy one well, cry once:). Hopefully ram/gpu will drop in price once you ready or AI bubble bursts:D.
 
For purely video editing I would be looking at Intel with an Nvidia GPU.
245k or 265k with a 5060ti or 5070ti depending on budget.
32gb of DDR5.
And at that resolution you will be needing storage space with a large capacity Gen4 NVMe or three with a mechanical back up often recommended.

It's certainly worth looking at what CPU is recommended for the various software you may use.

In a recent DAW build that would also game we would have went with the 265k, but dropped that for the 9900x simply due to the software required not using efficiency cores.
 
martin363 said:
To be honest, for your needs, you would be better off getting the Mac Mini Pro M4, or waiting a couple of months for the M5. I t will fly through everything you want, and save you some cash.
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No I will not be looking at apple products.

Thank you
 
martin363 said:
To be honest, for your needs, you would be better off getting the Mac Mini Pro M4, or waiting a couple of months for the M5. I t will fly through everything you want, and save you some cash.
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We do editing and video stuff and for your budget, the Apple silicon will give better results. At that price, they are great little machines. It’s only when you need real GPU power, Apple gets left behind.
 
Cheers guys.

For reasons we as a family do not wish to go back to apple products again and will be sticking to what I asked advice for on the first post :)

The posts above have been greatly appreciated and I'm now beginning to add groups of products to my wish list here for future consideration.
 
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