which cpu for 4K video editing and photoshop

[REDNINEAPB]

Choices 4790K, 5820K or Skylake 6700K

The only thing that I have system wise is 16gb of Samsung Greem memory (DDR3) so only for 4790K sold my 3770K system last August making do with a Surface Pro as not really gaming and its fine for word and excel and light 1080p video editing. Want to Start doing 4K video

What do people think or have experience off:
is the 4790K with its 8 threads going to be enough?

should I wait for Skylake (could wait until September) as this has onboard x265 encoding and may help, DDR3 may be no good though

or bite the bullet and go 5820K with a 960GTX

I will only be doing some light gaming.

Any opinions idea's

PS thinking this maybe a Micro ATX setup

 

[CEUOTC]

Go with the i7 4790K, save yourself some money and to be fair, it is not that much slower than the 5820K for video editing, especially if you are only just starting it. (Disclaimer from the benchmarks l have seen, not from first hand knowledge).

Re-using you RAM and if possible increase it (Not sure how available Samsung Green is these days), however again 16gb "should" be enough for starting out with

I am sure someone with a greater depth of knowledge will be along shortly.

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[John24]

Depends how long your willing to wait for encodes, 4K is quite demanding so if it was me I'd want Skylake or go all out with a 5960X.

 

[REDNINEAPB]

Decided to wait to Skylake

 

[harvey.l12]

I use my 4790K for all Photoshop graphic design, photo rendering, video editing and rendering, gaming and other software such as recording. It works fine and fast for me after 6 months of use still very good. Automatic overclock to 4.4GHz when the processor needs it is good or it can be overclocked too

 

[harvey.l12]

the 4790k is good for stuff like this for the price of it, i have one that i render HD videos with fine no problems so i'm sure it will handle 4K fine too

 

[faceman123]

skylake

 

[smilertoo]

If you're planning on 4k photo/video editing then get socket 2011.3. 16gb is the bare minimum ram i would recommend.

 

[ShivP]

I'd go 5820k also, despite the 4790k being quite fast for this at least in the future you can drop in a 5960X and get another 2 cores/4 threads

 

[passey89]

considering video editing & photoshop are some of the key features the X99 platform is aimed at i would deffo go 5820K.

There like some of the only areas the 5820k is actually better than a 4790k at.