Video editing pc

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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

 

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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.

 

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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

 

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Thanks gents, really appreciate the efforts