Differences between gaming and video editing machines.

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Looking to get a new PC, mine is now well over 10 years old and even with it's upgrades can't handle today's requirements.

I want to use it primarily for video editing, using programs such as premier pro, AVID news cutter and FCP. I'll also be using other Adobe creative suite programs such as Audition and Photoshop. As far as I know, the main requirements for this would be good processing power, lots of memory and a high end graphics card? How does this differ from a good gaming PC. Could someone recommend a good place to start which is a good balance for both? Quite fancy getting back into gaming too.

Cheers
 
Build

I attempted to put together a build today, for a budget of about £600. Can I get some feedback as to whether this should satisfy my desire to video edit efficiently, and also play some of the newer spec games coming out for PC?

  • Corsair Carbide 400C Midi Tower Gaming Case - Black Window (CC-9011081-WW)
  • Gigabyte Z170-Gaming K3 Intel Z170 (Socket 1151) DDR4 ATX Motherboard
  • Intel Core i5-6600K 3.9GHz (Skylake) Socket LGA1151 Processor - Retail
  • Avexir Blitz Original Red 16GB (2x8GB) DDR4 PC4-24000C16 3000MHz Dual Channel Memory Kit - Red Light
  • Kingston 240GB SSDNow UV400 Drive SATA 6Gb/s 2.5" (7mm height) Solid State Hard Drive - (SUV400S37/2
  • MSI GeForce GTX 950 Gaming 2048MB GDDR5 PCI-Express Graphics Card
 
Hey, thanks for taking the time to help out :)

Could you explain a few things to help me understand what I'm dealing with here

So the case I posted, I must have misread the description, I thought it came with a PSU included. It does have a fan, how come you recommend buying an aftermarket fan?

You said that the set up you posted was over twice fast. How have you come to that conclusion? As the processor I posted was clocked to 3.9 whereas the one in that bundle is 3.3. I do see that the i7-5820k has 6 cores, and is an i7... are these features more important? Have you seen benchmark results? Is that bundle worth the extra £190?

At about £15 difference, why have you chosen that particular GFX card?

Again with the memory, is it just a price thing? I liked the idea of keeping two slots free by getting 2x8gb, is there any real difference between 2x8gb and 4x4gb?

In terms of fan and PSU. Where does it say that the case you found comes with a cooler? I also misread the description on the Carbide 400c thinking is come with cooling and PSU included but it seems that isn't the case. Would this be a suitable combination?

Raijintek Aidos Direct Contact CPU Cooler £12.95
FX 450W '80 Plus Bronze' Power Supply £42.95

What determines the required power of your PSU?



Sorry for so many questions! Really do appreciate the help, and thanks again for your previous post
 
Hey, thanks again for going into such detail! I've made some ammednments based on what you've said:

My basket at Overclockers UK:

Total: £847.08
(includes shipping: £13.20)
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I've tried to keep the PSU and cooler options as low as possible, as everything is beginning to add up a lot now. In terms of the sockets, the motherboard is a 2011-3 whereas when looking at the coolers, the closes match is 2011. Does the 2011-3 fall into the 2011 family? (Sorry I know nothing of sockets!)
 
My basket at Overclockers UK:

Total: £948.56
(includes shipping: £14.70)
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Gone back to Nvidia following advice of bloodiedathame, not sure if I will need CUDA but no hard in having the option. I'm going to hold off on anymore disk drives atm, I will get them as the more major projects come up if required. Definitely feel that this build is powerful enough now. Possibly more so that what I actually need, but it is good to have the power if needed etc. Just got to see if I can finance it now..
 
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