£600 Video Editing Machine?

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A friend of mine wants a new PC building, everything bar the monitor.

The slight twist is he doesn’t game much so a mid to low end graphics card is fine.

He is however keen on video editing so I guess the money should be thrown at the CPU.

He also needs at least one Firewire port…

I guess socket 2011 is the way to go for this build but I’m unsure so open to suggestions.

Budget is £600.

Thanks in advance.
 
It honestly does depend how much his work load is but £600 is cutting it close, ideally you want an i7/multi-threading AMD equivalent. Then you would want a fair bit of HDD space and an SSD would really work wonders but honestly, it's hard to decide unless we know if it is a hobby or his job.

This is about as close as I can get, going to tweak it further see what I can come up with: (No mouse/keyboard/speakers)

YOUR BASKET
1 x Intel Core i7-2700K 3.50GHz (Sandybridge) Socket LGA1155 Processor - Retail £224.99
1 x Microsoft Windows 8 64-Bit DVD - OEM (WN7-00403) £79.99
1 x **B Grade** Gigabyte Z77-D3H Intel Z77 (Socket 1155) DDR3 Motherboard £60
1 x XFX Pro 550W Core Edition '80 Plus Bronze' Power Supply £54.98
1 x GeIL EVO Leggera 8GB (2x4GB) DDR3 PC3-12800C9 1600MHz Dual Channel Kit (GEL38GB1600C9DC) £53.99
1 x **B Grade** Seagate Barracuda 7200.12 1TB SATA 6Gb/s 32MB Cache - OEM £45
1 x Xigmatek Asgard Midi Tower Case - Black £28.99
Total : £562.04 (includes shipping : £11.75).



Removed 3770, added 2700k. Not sure how well it compares but if I can recommend anything it would be to source a second hand i7.
 
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http://www.overclockers.co.uk/showproduct.php?prodid=BG-281-GI&groupid=595&catid=689
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http://www.overclockers.co.uk/showproduct.php?prodid=CP-408-IN&groupid=701&catid=6&subcat=1672
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XFX Pro 550W Core Edition '80 Plus Bronze' Power Supply
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**B Grade** Seagate Barracuda 7200.12 1TB SATA 6Gb/s 32MB Cache
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Xigmatek Asgard Midi Tower Case - Black
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http://www.overclockers.co.uk/showproduct.php?prodid=MY-164-CR&groupid=701&catid=8&subcat=813
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http://www.overclockers.co.uk/showproduct.php?prodid=CD-007-OK&groupid=701&catid=10
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With no Windows, your friend must have it from previous PC :)
In the future, when more funds is available:

http://www.overclockers.co.uk/showproduct.php?prodid=CP-395-IN&groupid=701&catid=6&subcat=1672

But frankly and truly, if not professionally used, AMD-based PC would be more expanded/handy in this price for now.
 
He is not a PRO, he's very much a amateur (messing around with home video's etc.), I'm not sure what version of Windows he currently has or even if its transferable (I'll ask tomorrow).

What would be the equivalent AMD machine?

Thanks so far!
 
I am really no good with AMD builds as I am still learning about them but I think you would be looking at something like this:

YOUR BASKET
1 x AMD Piledriver FX-8 Eight Core 8350 Black Edition 4.00GHz (Socket AM3+) Processor - Retail £161.99
1 x OCZ Agility 3 120GB 2.5" SATA 6Gb/s Solid State Hard Drive (AGT3-25SAT3-120G.20) £89.99
1 x Microsoft Windows 7 Home Premium SP1 64-Bit - OEM (GFC-02050) £83.99
1 x Asus M5A78L LE AMD 760G (Socket AM3+) DDR3 ATX Motherboard £56.99
1 x XFX Pro 550W Core Edition '80 Plus Bronze' Power Supply £54.98
1 x GeIL EVO Leggera 8GB (2x4GB) DDR3 PC3-12800C9 1600MHz Dual Channel Kit (GEL38GB1600C9DC) £53.99
1 x **B Grade** Seagate Barracuda 7200.12 1TB SATA 6Gb/s 32MB Cache - OEM £45
1 x Xigmatek Asgard Midi Tower Case - Black £28.99
1 x Asus HD 5450 SILENT 1024MB GDDR3 PCI-Express Low Profile Graphics Card £25.99
Total : £616.01 (includes shipping : £11.75).

 
Thanks Gibbo3771, any AMD experts out there who can improve on the build above? (although Intel is still in with a shout)
 
How does the below look for a AMD build?
(and while i'm here how do i produce the shopping cart everyone else can! - i'm sure after a +1300 posts i should know already know but I've no idea!)

Edit, I know the GPU is missing - he can decide how much to spend on that later.
Cheers,



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No real reason for AMD other than I assumend at the slightly lower end AMD had better "Bang for Buck", if you are correct (I have no reason to doubt your honesty) I may well change the build.

Posting for advice and I'll take on board suggestions (If you put together a spec. let me know!)

Cheers
 
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If you for whatever reason go with AMD, you will need a GPU, can't really decide later since it sorta needs it, they don't have IGP's like Intel do.

However if it were me personally, I would go for an Intel build over and AMD, I simply posted an AMD build to put price into perspective.
 
Russinating said:
Yeah I'm no expert but I've just been reviewing specs for an editing machine myself and the i5 outperforms the FX-8 on everything, according to this test anyway: http://www.hardwaresecrets.com/article/FX-8350-vs-Core-i5-3470-CPU-Review/1657



I'm getting the i5-3330 3.00Ghz however simply due to budgets.
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Problem with that is the encoding test is using an app that's more used for editing and a crap format that hardly anyone uses anymore. x264 is where it's been at for a long time now.

Not saying one is better than the other CPU wise, just that that test would have been more suited to 5 years ago.
 
NZB said:
Problem with that is the encoding test is using an app that's more used for editing and a crap format that hardly anyone uses anymore. x264 is where it's been at for a long time now.

Not saying one is better than the other CPU wise, just that that test would have been more suited to 5 years ago.
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The Intel performs better than the AMD in every single test though, so you'd assume it would in other tests too.
 
Russinating said:
The Intel performs better than the AMD in every single test though, so you'd assume it would in other tests too.
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Nah it's not always the case, some libraries perform different than others in that regard. No idea with the 3470 but i was in a similar dilemma for encoding a wee while ago and went with the 3770k over the 8350 for x264. Glad i did as i couldn't be happier.
 
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