Spec a Machine for video editing, please?

[prescott28]

A friend has asked me to build him a machine to do some video editing. I don't know juts what but I doubt it is very serious stuff. we have a budget of £500 that is going to have to include an OS - he would like Windows 7. What would work for that budget?

Thanks for any help.

 

[ShivP]

Is it purely video editing or a bit of gaming too?

 

[prescott28]

Whoops, sorry, no gaming. The guy is 70 and doesn't like games for some reason!

 

[ShivP]

YOUR BASKET
1 x Intel Core i5-4440 3.10GHz (Haswell) Socket LGA1150 Processor - Retail £152.99
1 x TeamGroup Elite Black 16GB (2x8GB) DDR3 PC3-12800C11 1600MHz Dual Channel Kit (TPKD316G1600HC11DC01) £89.99
1 x Microsoft Windows 7 Home Premium SP1 64-Bit - OEM (GFC-02733) £84.95
1 x SK Hynix 128GB SSD SH910A SATA 6Gb/s Solid State Drive (HFS128G32MNB-2201A) £49.99
1 x Antec VPF450 450W '80 Plus Bronze' Power Supply £40.99
1 x Toshiba (7K1000.D) 1TB SATA 6GB/s 32MB Cache - OEM (DT01ACA100) HDD £39.95
1 x Asus H81M-K Intel H81 (Socket 1150) DDR3 Micro ATX Motherboard £37.99
1 x Xigmatek Mach Midi-Tower Black £24.95
Total : £521.80 (includes shipping : ).





You could get away with that, that has a small SSD as well for the files being worked on, the video editing software and that's about it (it's quite small but better than nothing!)

or AMD (which will require a GPU as it has no integrated graphics)

YOUR BASKET
1 x AMD Piledriver FX-8 Eight Core 8320E Black Edition 3.20GHz (Socket AM3+) Processor - Retail £109.99
1 x TeamGroup Elite Black 16GB (2x8GB) DDR3 PC3-12800C11 1600MHz Dual Channel Kit (TPKD316G1600HC11DC01) £89.99
1 x Microsoft Windows 7 Home Premium SP1 64-Bit - OEM (GFC-02733) £84.95
1 x Palit GeForce GT 740 1024MB GDDR3 PCI-Express Graphics Card £59.99
1 x Gigabyte 970A-DS3P AMD 970A (Socket AM3+) DDR3 Motherboard £52.99
1 x Antec VPF450 450W '80 Plus Bronze' Power Supply £40.99
1 x Toshiba (7K1000.D) 1TB SATA 6GB/s 32MB Cache - OEM (DT01ACA100) HDD £39.95
1 x Xigmatek Mach Midi-Tower Black £24.95
1 x Raijintek Aidos Direct Contact CPU Cooler - Black £14.99
Total : £518.78 (includes shipping : ).





but no SSD, the likelihood is that the extra cores will render stuff quicker, and he will get extra speed from being able to GPU render using CUDA acceleration
It's not a very powerful GPU though, so if you could pick up something like a GTX 660 or 660Ti used off the MM or so then that would be a better choice
Intel does have the better upgrade route though
I would also recommend Win8.1 because it's a bit faster overall and cheaper, though obviously if he wants 7 then go for it

Also £3 more can get you the 550W version of the PSU - http://www.overclockers.co.uk/showproduct.php?prodid=CA-236-AN&groupid=701&catid=123&subcat=2463