Spec for video editing please

Adrenalin

Adrenalin

Adrenalin

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Hey all, looking to build my first computer. It's main purpose would be for video editing and maybe the odd gaming here and there.

Budget: £800-£900

I'd like an SSD hard drive as primary, need everything except:

OS
Mouse
Monitor

I was also told that overclockers build your computer from the parts you buy for a nominal fee, something like a tenner? Is that true, if so how do you go about ordering that?

Many thanks, much appreciated.
 
OCUK will build for you with prices starting from £60

YOUR BASKET
1 x Gigabyte Z97X-UD3H-BK - Devil's Canyon Core i7 4790K CPU & Motherboard Bundle **£20 Saving + Gigabyte Free Upgrade ** £374.98
1 x Powercolor Radeon R9 380 4096MB GDDR5 PCI-Express Graphics Card (AXR9 380 4GBD5-PPDHE) £179.99
1 x TeamGroup Vulcan RED 16GB (2x8GB) DDR3 PC3-12800C9 1600MHz Dual Channel Kit (TLRED316G1600HC9DC01) £79.99
1 x Samsung 250GB 850 EVO SSD 2.5" SATA 6Gbps 32 Layer 3D V-NAND Solid State Drive (MZ-75E250B/EU) £77.99
1 x Seagate 2TB SATA-6Gb 7200rpm 64MB (1 Year Warranty) £53.99
1 x SuperFlower FX 550W '80 Plus Bronze' Power Supply - Black £41.99
1 x Antec VSP5000 Silenced Tower Case - Black £33.95
1 x Raijintek Themis Black Heatpipe CPU Cooler PWM - 120mm £19.99
1 x LG 24x DVD±RW SATA ReWriter (Black) - OEM GH24NSC0.AUAA15B £13.99
Total : £891.85 (includes shipping : £12.50 Ex.VAT).

 
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Lol nevermind the £60 I'll save on that!

Videos made for youtube. Taken with a GoPro Hero 4 / SLR camera (Canon 5D / Sony A5000) or a palm camera... nothing fancy.

Basically resolution will never be more than 1080p at 120fps or 720p @ 240fps. Hope that helps, I'm just getting into it and my current set-up is donkeys years old.
 
Lucky I specced a 2TB HDD then ;) Along with the SSD, i7 and 16GB RAM you should be in for a smooth ride. With the R9 380 providing a decent punch for when you feel like gaming as well.
 
Slightly over and I'm not 100% on Intel stuff but having the drives split correctly will give a massive advantage on render times. SSD for your OS & applications, 1 drive for the project media and another for the media output. Nvidia card in case you use anything that can take advantage of the CUDA support (such as MPE - I doubt it doing the sort of work you are but you might as well come prepared!)

Personally I'd also consider stretching to £1k and getting an X99 board with a 6 core i7, but that's only if you're doing some hardcore rendering. You'd be surprised how taxing DSLR and 120fps GoPro footage can be though!

YOUR BASKET
1 x Gigabyte Z97X-UD3H-BK - Devil's Canyon Core i7 4790K CPU & Motherboard Bundle **£20 Saving + Gigabyte Free Upgrade ** £374.98
1 x Palit GeForce GTX 970 4096MB GDDR5 PCI-Express Graphics Card £239.99
1 x Kingston HyperX Fury Black 16GB (2x8GB) DDR3 PC3-12800C10 1600MHz Dual Channel Kit (HX316C10FBK2/16) £79.99
1 x SuperFlower FX 550W '80 Plus Bronze' Power Supply - Black £41.99
2 x Seagate Barracuda 1TB 7200RPM SATA 6Gb/s 64MB Cache - OEM (ST1000DM003) HDD £41.99 (£83.98)
1 x Kingston 120GB SSDNow V300 Drive SATA 6Gb/s 3 2.5" (7mm height) Solid State Hard Drive - (SV300S37A/120G) £39.95
1 x Corsair Carbide Series 100R Mid-Tower Case - Black £37.99
1 x Cooler Master Hyper 412S CPU Cooler £28.99
Total : £927.85 (includes shipping : Ex.VAT).

 
If you're editing in Sony Vegas or another tool with video proxy ability you can edit 3 1080p60 feeds at the same time at 60 fps on a laptop 3610QM CPU.

This includes multiple text/image/audio layers and transparency/green screen effects.

You'd be surprised how low you can go on specs and get great performance, but make sure you have enough HDD bandwidth as my 3 video proxies use up 2/3 of my gigabit connection to my NAS!
 
I'd love to stretch to 1k, but alas budget is tight! Good tip with the HDD's too Cyanide. Thanks a lot, really appreciate the help from everyone. I'll be ordering the parts over the next few days, picking out from both builds :)
 
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