Video Editing Build

Ewan · 25 May 2013 at 18:21

Hi,

I'm looking for a good build that will mainly be used for handling photo and video editing along with some 3D modelling. I'll be working with 4K resolution files a lot of the time. My budget is around £700 for this.

If anyone could spec me a good video editing build, that's be great!

Thanks

Orcvader · 26 May 2013 at 00:34

What software will you be using? Will you also need a copy of Windows? Sounds like an i7 will help a lot with what you want, with maybe a decent GPU for hardware acceleration if the software you use supports CUDA/OpenCL.

Doomedspeed · 26 May 2013 at 11:32

As said above an i7 would be ideal. Either the 3770k/4770k using hypertheading or a 3930k (a bit out of budget) would do you well..

I think for video rendering CUDA helps, so an NVIDIA card would be advised.

Ewan · 27 May 2013 at 11:53

Orcvader said:
What software will you be using? Will you also need a copy of Windows? Sounds like an i7 will help a lot with what you want, with maybe a decent GPU for hardware acceleration if the software you use supports CUDA/OpenCL.

I'll be using After Effects and most other Adobe products, and Sony Vegas along with Cinema 4D.

Doomedspeed said:
As said above an i7 would be ideal. Either the 3770k/4770k using hypertheading or a 3930k (a bit out of budget) would do you well..

I think for video rendering CUDA helps, so an NVIDIA card would be advised.

Thanks both of you for replying. I'll bare all of that in mind, and try make sure I choose an i7.

Doomedspeed · 27 May 2013 at 18:31

Something like this:

YOUR BASKET
1 x Intel Core i7-2700K 3.50GHz (Sandybridge) Socket LGA1155 Processor - Retail £224.99
1 x TeamGroup Elite Black 16GB (2x8GB) DDR3 PC3-12800C11 1600MHz Dual Channel Kit (TED316GM1600HC11DC01) £89.99
1 x Gigabyte Z77-D3H Intel Z77 (Socket 1155) DDR3 Motherboard £86.99
1 x MSI GeForce GTX 650 Black Knight OC 1024MB GDDR5 PCI-Express Graphics Card £79.99
1 x XFX Pro 550W Core Edition '80 Plus Bronze' Power Supply £54.98
1 x Corsair Carbide 200R Compact ATX Case - Black £49.99
1 x Seagate Barracuda 7200RPM 1TB SATA 6Gb/s 64MB Cache - OEM (ST1000DM003) HDD £49.99
1 x Alpenföhn Matterhorn Pure Edition CPU Cooler (Socket 775 / 1150 / 1155 / 1156 / 1366 / AM2 / AM2+ / AM3 / FM1 / FM2) £29.99
1 x OcUK 24x DVD±RW SATA ReWriter (Black) - OEM £16.99
Total : £696.50 (includes shipping : £10.50).

RetiredGreyFox · 27 May 2013 at 18:41

Eventually I will buy a CUDA card and from a thread I started a while ago the amount of Processing Cores is the most important factor for video editing and speed.

Ewan · 27 May 2013 at 20:24

Doomedspeed said:
Something like this:

YOUR BASKET
1 x Intel Core i7-2700K 3.50GHz (Sandybridge) Socket LGA1155 Processor - Retail £224.99
1 x TeamGroup Elite Black 16GB (2x8GB) DDR3 PC3-12800C11 1600MHz Dual Channel Kit (TED316GM1600HC11DC01) £89.99
1 x Gigabyte Z77-D3H Intel Z77 (Socket 1155) DDR3 Motherboard £86.99
1 x MSI GeForce GTX 650 Black Knight OC 1024MB GDDR5 PCI-Express Graphics Card £79.99
1 x XFX Pro 550W Core Edition '80 Plus Bronze' Power Supply £54.98
1 x Corsair Carbide 200R Compact ATX Case - Black £49.99
1 x Seagate Barracuda 7200RPM 1TB SATA 6Gb/s 64MB Cache - OEM (ST1000DM003) HDD £49.99
1 x Alpenföhn Matterhorn Pure Edition CPU Cooler (Socket 775 / 1150 / 1155 / 1156 / 1366 / AM2 / AM2+ / AM3 / FM1 / FM2) £29.99
1 x OcUK 24x DVD±RW SATA ReWriter (Black) - OEM £16.99
Total : £696.50 (includes shipping : £10.50).

Thanks!

Bookmarked this so I can buy something along the lines of this when I've got the money.