Spec me a CPU etc for 4K video editing

[Russinating]

It's been a while since I've posted in hardware but I'm a bit out of touch with current gens!

Need an upgrade few one or two work machines so they can handle 4K editing and rendering better/faster.

What CPU, mobo and graphics card would people recommend for this? Max budget of £1,000 for a full system (case, PCU etc) so about £600/700 as an upgrade. Thanks in advance!

 

[Padraig]

If You want smooth 4k this is about as cheap as i can make a build for if dont need the drives then you can get rid of them and save money. The cpu is an 8 core and the gpu is capable of running the displays properly and should have some cuda acceleration.

My basket at Overclockers UK:

• 1 x Intel Xeon E5-2630 v3 2.4GHz 8-Core with Hyperthreading (Socket 2011-3) - Retail= £542.99
• 1 x Team Group Elite 32GB (4x8GB) DDR4 PC4-19200C16 2400MHz Quad Channel Kit - Black (TPKD432GM2400HC16Q= £129.95
• 1 x Asus X99-A Intel X99 (Socket 2011) DDR4 ATX Motherboard= £199.99
• 1 x Super Flower Golden Green HX 550W "80 Plus Gold" Power Supply - Black= £59.99
• 1 x Aerocool Aero 500 Midi-Tower Case - White= £29.99
• 1 x Arctic Silver Céramique 2 Thermal Paste (2.7g)= £2.54
• 1 x KFA2 GeForce GTX 960 Reference 4096MB GDDR5 PCI-Express Graphics Card - Retail= £149.99
• 1 x Samsung 250GB 850 EVO SSD 2.5" SATA 6Gbps 32 Layer 3D V-NAND Solid State Drive (MZ-75E250B/EU)= £65.99
• 1 x WD Red 2TB SATA 6Gb/s 64MB Cache HDD - OEM WD20EFRX= £74.99
• 1 x Alpenföhn Matterhorn Pure Edition CPU Cooler= £29.99

Total: £1,299.01
(includes shipping: £12.60)
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[Padraig]

Or the same build with a 5820k which can be overclocked but has 2 less cores and less cpu lanes it would be 4k capable just not as smooth.

My basket at Overclockers UK:

• 1 x Team Group Elite 32GB (4x8GB) DDR4 PC4-19200C16 2400MHz Quad Channel Kit - Black (TPKD432GM2400HC16Q= £129.95
• 1 x Asus X99-A Intel X99 (Socket 2011) DDR4 ATX Motherboard= £199.99
• 1 x Super Flower Golden Green HX 550W "80 Plus Gold" Power Supply - Black= £59.99
• 1 x Aerocool Aero 500 Midi-Tower Case - White= £29.99
• 1 x Arctic Silver Céramique 2 Thermal Paste (2.7g)= £2.54
• 1 x KFA2 GeForce GTX 960 Reference 4096MB GDDR5 PCI-Express Graphics Card - Retail= £149.99
• 1 x Samsung 250GB 850 EVO SSD 2.5" SATA 6Gbps 32 Layer 3D V-NAND Solid State Drive (MZ-75E250B/EU)= £65.99
• 1 x WD Red 2TB SATA 6Gb/s 64MB Cache HDD - OEM WD20EFRX= £74.99
• 1 x Alpenföhn Matterhorn Pure Edition CPU Cooler= £29.99
• 1 x Intel i7-5820K 3.30GHz (Haswell-E) Socket LGA2011-V3 Processor - Retail (BX80648I75820K)= £329.99

Total: £1,086.01
(includes shipping: £12.60)
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[Russinating]

Thanks. An upgrade will be fine as we have drives etc already in existing systems (mine's currently an i5) so it'll just be CPU, GPU, motherboard and cooler.

How much effect do graphics cards have on rendering? Specifically in Adobe Premiere.