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theforce

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Hi guys. The PC will be used for image editing and video editing(no gaming). The PC being silent is very important. What would you guys change?


Case: BE QUIET! SILENT BASE 800 SILVER

PSU: ENERMAX REVOLUTION XT 730W

CPU: Intel i7-6700K

Motherboard: ASROCK Z170 PRO4S

RAM: Corsair Vengeance LPX 32GB (2x16GB) DDR4

GPU: MSI Radeon R9 380 Gaming 4096MB

Primary HDD: Crucial MX 200 250GB

Scratch disk: Samsung 850 Pro 512GB

HDD drive caddy: Akasa Lokstor M51
 
If its silence vs Speed you want i'd change almost all of it.

Fractal Design R5 case with noctua 140mm fans.
Seasonic-X 750w PSU.
Intel 5820cpu and large noctua air cooler.
Asrock X99 Extreme4 3.1 Intel X99 motherboard
Corsair Vengeance LPX 32GB (4x8GB) DDR4
nvidia GTX970
Samsung 850 Pro 512GB
WD Black 2tb.
 
Do l need the WD Black since l don't intend to store the video files on the PC. I will be using the Akasa Lokstor M51 to mount SSDs and export the final file on other 3.5HDDs
 
WD Blacks are an anachronism nowadays - drives built for a time when manufacturers were eking out the last drops of performance possible from mechanical drives that had the operating system installed on them. With the advent of SSDs their speed has been made mostly redundant.

If it's storage you want then WD Reds or Greens would be the drive of choice. I'd pick reds for the extra warranty.
 
HGST Helium ones are probably the most reliable 3.5" drives you can get nowadays. But if want a 2.5" one then there is the Samsung Spinpoint M9T (2TB).

I'm honestly not sure which ones are quieter. 2.5" or 3.5" drives. But we have 2.5" everywhere (various models) and can never notice any of them.
 
After a debate l managed to convince my friend to go for the socket X99 system since it would only cost around €100 more.

I have ordered these parts from a local store:

Case: BE QUIET! SILENT BASE 800 SILVER

PSU: ENERMAX REVOLUTION XT 730W

Motherboard: ASROCK X99 EXTREME4

OS HDD : Crucial MX 200 250GB

CPU cooler: BE QUIET! SHADOW ROCK 2

while the rest of the components will be ordered today from overclockers.co.uk

CPU: Intel 5820K

HDD drive caddy: Akasa Lokstor M51

GPU: MSI Radeon R9 380 Gaming 4096MB

RAM: Kingston Fury Black 32GB (4x8GB) DDR4

Scratch disk: Samsung 850 Pro 512GB

Personally I would change the GPU as a lot of image/video editing takes advantage of Nvidia CUDA.
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That used to be the case with Adobe Premiere CS6. With Premiere CC / Davinci Resolve 11+ OpenCL is used also. I was also thinking of going for a similarly priced 4GB 960 but the 128bit memory bus would gimp it's performance. My first choice would be a 8GB 390 but his budget is limited.
 
theforce said:
That used to be the case with Adobe Premiere CS6. With Premiere CC / Davinci Resolve 11+ OpenCL is used also. I was also thinking of going for a similarly priced 4GB 960 but the 128bit memory bus would gimp it's performance. My first choice would be a 8GB 390 but his budget is limited.
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Nvidia is pretty strong on OpenCL these days too and if you're using software that supports CUDA I'd take an nvidia card over AMD. Something like a 750ti would be fine if you're not gaming.

I would've also picked a better PSU and added a couple of decent HDDs (minimum 4 drives for a video rendering rig)
 
Bah, had to replace the ASROCK X99 EXTREME4 for a MSI X99S SLI PLUS since the ASROCK model was unavailable. In addition, the Kingston Fury Black 32GB (4x8GB) DDR4 was replaced with Crucial Ballistix Sport LT 32GB (4x8GB).

The PSU isn't my first choice either but it should cope fine since the system won't be overclocked(prepares to commit ritual suicide for uttering such words in this forum). I would have gone for a different model if they were less prohibitively expensive compared to the Enermax model.

My mate also went ahead a 4K Samsung monitor that supports Freesync so AMD it is.
 
A few of the big programs have gone OpenCL and NVenc instead (which is basically CUDA but on latest hardware only). OpenCL has far less issues though so the AMD card would still be a good call (powerdirector 13 heres looking at you on nvidia hardware...)
 
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