PC for video editing

Not sure why jigger is suggesting X370 :o

@Kam_s do you do any gaming, I guess not and solely just video editing? So do you not need a new GPU, does any of your software have GPU hardware acceleration that would benefit from a GPU? If not I guess you could re-use your fairly old GPU still. :p

I would start a new build based with something like the below maybe. The mobo has 8x SATA ports, best you can do I think on AM4? So I'd just get a 4 or 6 port SATA card for £20-30 I believe they are. NVMe for your boot drive (Windows and your apps etc)...

An alternative case I thought of after actually, is this Phanteks Enthoo Pro 2 which is new out I think. Don't think it comes with any fans preinstalled, so you'd need a pack of those and it is quite big... But looks like should hold a lot more HDDs?

You could also up CPU to 3950X if you really think need the CPU power. But looking at a few render benchmarks the 3950X doesn't seem to things that much quicker than the 3900X to warrant an extra £260? Up to you to decide if worth it though.

My basket at Overclockers UK:
Total: £1,264.86 (includes shipping: £0.00)
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Now Sparx mentioned it lol
Think my enthoo 719 can take even more
Hard drives lol
If you get a couple of extra hard drive cages
And the enthoo Pro was a really good case at its price point will need to read a
Review of the Pro 2
Its possible they used elements of the 719 in it as quickly looking it seems taller
Than the original pro
 
And to the op
New Amd cpus should only be couple of
Months away and may have more pcie
Lanes so maybe more sata ports?
As well as even more performance
And should lower the cost of 3900x and 3950x I assume
Depends how soon you need to upgrade
Obviously
 
Why not just swap few of the drives for bigger ones if you need to keep that much storage?
You really SHOULD NOT work from the HDD's at any point - everything should be done on SSD/NVME and offloaded to HDD for storage.

I vouch for 3900x - I have 3900 @4.25ghz all core and it's a beast for video editing, cut down my render from 1hr to just over 20 minutes going from 3600X for 4k on average and applying effects is very smooth and quick.

Instead of investing into case, buy a better GPU instead - pretty sure most video software does use GPU for a lot of tasks and a 660Ti doesn't really help there. The RTX cards seem to be good in that aspect if you have to buy new.
Or just swap some of the drivers - not sure how big they are but look at current SSD prices - you can get 2TB SSD/NVME for £160 brand new now, surely you could get rid of some of the old drives.


your old PSU is good as well, no need to change anything else other than CPU/Mobo/RAM and drives/gpu if needed.
 
Thanks everyone. I will probably slowly replace all the ageing HDDs with SSD but will take some time for that to happen.

@Mcnumpty2323 If the new AMD cpu's are only couple of months away, then I would prefer to wait. Do you have any further info on them?
 
Kam_s said:
Thanks everyone. I will probably slowly replace all the ageing HDDs with SSD but will take some time for that to happen.

@Mcnumpty2323 If the new AMD cpu's are only couple of months away, then I would prefer to wait. Do you have any further info on them?
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As with everything all details are based on speculation and leaks. AMD said some time ago that 3rd generation Zen would ship this year. They didn’t say for what market though.

SSD’s are improving but still can’t match spinning rust in many areas. A NAS over a fast network might be worth considering.
 
How have you been doing 4K video editing on 22" display @ 1680x1050 :o

If rig is for editing only (no gaming) then I'd invest in a quality 4k screen.
 
Actually, only the last few months I have done some 4K but my PC isnt really up to the job, so I am unable to properly work with it.
 
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