Video editing pc

[Flashheart]

Hi guys,

My old man has asked me to put together a rig for him, which will almost entirely be used for video purposes. Editing/encoding that sort of thing.
Whatever i get will be a pretty huge upgrade from his 3.6ghz pentium 4 560!

I have no experience really with regards to video editing, but my plan was to go for the 2600K with a mild overclock and a shed load of ram. I am assuming this would still be more potent than a hex core amd cpu for the task or am I mistaken? Although if there isn't to much difference, the hex core would aid the budget somewhat.

Also, looking at his software I noticed that it natively supports cuda, so I will be buying him an nvidia gpu to aid that. Any thoughts on which one?

The budget is a max of £700 for the tower, although that needs to include a copy of win 7 also.

Any thoughts welcome guys. I will be overclocking whatever is bought, just not sure what hardware might be best for video software.

Thanks

The budget is £650

 

[Jony27]

is he a hardcore encoder/editor, does any of the softwares he uses make use of hyperthreading?

 

[Flashheart]

He uses MAGIX Movie Edit Pro MX Plus version 18, the latest version I think.

He's not hardcore exactly, but is always editing or encoding something on his machine.

 

[jamesfreddie]

YOUR BASKET
1 x Intel Core i5-2500K 3.30GHz (Sandybridge) Socket LGA1155 Processor - OEM £159.98
1 x OcUK GeForce GTX 550Ti 1024MB GDDR5 PCI-Express Graphics Card £99.98
1 x Asus P8P67-M Intel P67 (Socket 1155) DDR3 MicroATX Motherboard ** B3 REVISION ** £94.99
1 x Microsoft Windows 7 Home Premium SP1 32-Bit - OEM (GFC-02021) £79.98
1 x Fractal Design Arc Mini Tower Case - Black £66.98
1 x Antec TruePower New Modular 550W '80 Plus Bronze' Power Supply £59.99
1 x Corsair Vengeance 8GB (2x4GB) DDR3 PC3-12800C9 1600MHz Dual Channel Kit (CMZ8GX3M2A1600C9) £53.99
1 x Corsair A70 High-Performance Dual Fan CPU Cooler (Socket AM2/AM3/LGA775/LGA1155/LGA1156/LGA1366) £32.99
1 x Seagate Barracuda 7200.12 500GB SATA 6Gb/s 16MB Cache - OEM (ST500DM002) £31.99
1 x Sony Optiarc AD-5280S 24x DVD±RW SATA ReWriter (Black) - OEM £18.98
Total : £713.96 (includes shipping : £11.75).

 

[Flashheart]

Thanks for that, although I was looking more for info really as I'm up to date with hardware.
Is a 550 better than a 460 for cuda work? or a 9800gt for example.
And is a hex core amd cpu worse than a 2500k for video encoding, mild overclocking included

 

[Reaper 392]

Thanks for that, although I was looking more for info really as I'm up to date with hardware.
Is a 550 better than a 460 for cuda work? or a 9800gt for example.
And is a hex core amd cpu worse than a 2500k for video encoding, mild overclocking included

i5 2500k stomps all over any AMD offering: http://www.anandtech.com/bench/Product/203?vs=288
i7 2600k stomps all over the i5 2500k in anything thats highly threaded (eg, video editing + encoding)

i'm not 100% sure about the graphics cards, but cinsidering the 460 has 336 cuda cores, and the 550Ti only has 196 i would have thought the 460 would be better

*edit*
in 104 posts, or however long it is until youve been a member for a year, you'll get free shipping, so this is what i'll recommend with your £700 maximum:

YOUR BASKET
1 x Intel Core i7-2600K 3.40GHz (Sandybridge) Socket LGA1155 Processor - Retail with FREE TrackMania 2 Canyon PC Game £241.99
1 x OcUK GeForce GTX 460 768MB GDDR5 PCI-Express Graphics Card - OEM £85.99
1 x Asus P8P67 LE Intel P67 (Socket 1155) DDR3 Motherboard ** B3 REVISION ** £70.10
1 x Microsoft Windows 7 Bundle - Home Premium 64 Bit £68.40
1 x Western Digital Caviar Blue 500GB SATA 6Gb/s 16MB Cache - OEM (WD5000AAKX) £32.99
1 x Corsair XMS3 8GB (2x4GB) DDR3 PC3-12800C9 1600MHz Dual Channel Kit (CMX8GX3M2A1600C9) £56.99
1 x Lepa W-Series 500W '80 Plus' Power Supply £46.99
1 x Zalman Z9 Plus Tower Case with Fan Controller - Black £44.99
1 x Titan Fenrir Evo CPU Cooler (Socket LGA775/LGA1156//LGA1366/AMD K8/AM2/AM2+/AM3) £29.99
1 x OcUK 22x DVD±RW SATA ReWriter (Black) - OEM £16.99
Total : £695.42 (includes shipping: FREE).

i REALLY wouldnt go for jamesfreddie's build because:
- i5 2500k, rather than i7 2600k
- mATX motherboard (less expansion slots)
- fractal design case (their quality control department consist of a chimpanzee, three toddlers and an elephant
- tall ram heatspreaders will interfere with the cooler (and if by some miracle they dont, it will interfere with most other coolers)
- 32 bit OS
- could save money on the DVD drive and the HDD + OS to the win7 + HDD bundle

 

[ExecutorKevin]

no need for a cooler at all, the stock would comfortably do 4.1/4.2 ghz, so with that money get a ssd, which will give you a more noticeable difference. If he isn't one for looks then get a cooler master case for £30 and buy 30/60gb ssd.

 

[Reaper 392]

no need for a cooler at all, the stock would comfortably do 4.1/4.2 ghz, so with that money get a ssd, which will give you a more noticeable difference. If he isn't one for looks then get a cooler master case for £30 and buy 30/60gb ssd.

if the OP is video editing, he wants all the processor speed he can get, hence the cooler. also, your not going to get much of an SSD for £30-40

as for the case, cross out coolermaster and write in bitfenix merc alpha and i'd be happy to recommend that if the OP really needed to save the cash, but the zalman is more than worth the extra cash over the bitfenix

 

[Flashheart]

Thanks gents, really appreciate the efforts

 

[Orcvader]

+1 to the 3rd party cooler as well. Since the CPU will be at times on max load for a while, the stock cooler will sound like a rocket. I'm sure your dad doesn't want this .

An option could also be a Z68 with Lucid Virtu to take advantage of Intel QuickSync. Not many programs use this though but it does seem to beat CUDA in most things.

 

[Azer]

The reaper 392 system is good - can't build a cheaper bundle bang for buck in OcUK webby.