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Computer Advice for Editing
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Tyler, I wouldn´t go for an AMD CPU but that is probably a personal preference. Also, the graphics card is on the very low end and there’s only 1 hard drive.
If I had to choose a stock 1000 dollar computer for editing, this one would check a lot of my boxes:
https://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16883102274&ignorebbr=1 -
michael, i need to point out that the 7600k is a 4 thread not 8 thread like the 7700k that couldn’t handle 2.7k video. plus the video card only has 3GB RAM.
also, the price leaves no room for a monitor. I don’t know what type of SSD it has as some SSD’s are actually slower than Western Digital Black edition(108 mb/sec) 5 streams of h.264. Now if you were using cineform/prores 4k you would need a 850 evo as they are higher mb/sec codecs.
if you check my puget links, you’ll see you need at least a 8 thread to handle stuff higher than HD in your timeline since you need to decompress h.264 which is very cpu intensive.
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Chris, in this budget range, there’s always a compromise. An i5 is certainly not the best choice overall but is fast enough to handle h264 drone footage in 2.7k and the same goes for the 3gb graphics card. So I´d compromise a little computing power (debatable since Adobe software tends to be optimised for Intel cpu´s) for a second hard drive.
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So are you guys basically saying that if I go to a computer shop in my area and tell them what I want to do etc, they can help me affordably built a computer to suit the needs of Adobe Premiere and the video I need it to handle? And is building a computer my best option?
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Probably but then you´d have to pay for custom assembly and higher component cost.
That’s a tough choice on this budget.Have you thought about buying used/refurbished?
Something like:
https://www.ebay.com/itm/HP-Z420-Workstation-Xeon-Quad-Core-3-6GHz-32GB-RAM-SSD-HD-NVIDIA-GTX-1050-Ti-4GB-/172592333578?hash=item282f4e030a:g:o-UAAOSwX9FZLuWu
or
https://www.ebay.com/itm/Dell-Precision-T5600-Xeon-16-Core-2-6GHz-32GB-RAM-SSD-HD-GTX-1050-Ti-4GB-Win-10-/172656998669?hash=item283328b90d:g:hZwAAOSwtfhYo0k2 -
Ok, so I just went up to my local computer repair and build shop and talked to the guy. There I found what I think is a decent computer. Here are the specs for it:
Intel I7
Quad Core
Solid State
8GB RAM
1050 TI 2G Video Card
64-bit Operating System
Processor: Intel(R) Core(TM) i7-3770K CPU @3.50GHzWhat are your guys thoughts on this desktop?
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Ok, so I just went up to my local computer repair and build shop and talked to the guy. There I found what I think is a decent computer. Here are the specs for it:
Intel I7
Quad Core
Solid State
8GB RAM
1050 TI 2G Video Card
64-bit Operating System
Processor: Intel(R) Core(TM) i7-3770K CPU @3.50GHz -
How much would it be for a Sky Lake or Kaby Lake i7 at 4.0 GHZ with 16 GB of RAM and a GTX 1060? Can you get a 250 GB SSD for the OS and a 2 TB drive for the media content? A Micro ATX motherboard should work out OK. I like to have hot swap drive bays. You can get the SSD for the OS and ad a HD later. Do you have a spare HD?
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Michael? What is your advice on the computer I posted about earlier today?
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Tyler, 8GB RAM is the bare minimum and I would go for 16GB or more. Also if there’s only 1 hard drive for footage and operating system it shouldn´t be an SSD.
Did you take a look at the HP z420 workstation under the first ebay link?
I believe that something like this is the best bang for the buck in your situation and it’s still well under $1000,- even if you include a 1-year protection plan.
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