I’m Pimping my PC, need your advice please! Rx480 6700K?

[Paul Berk]

I’m partial to six core i7 for video editing — I’d start with an i7-6800K and go from there.

[Ole Kristiansen]

Specs. for Vegas Pro 13/14, 4K editing !

Processor: 8 cores recommended for 4K
RAM: 16 GB recommended for 4K
Solid-state disk (SSD) or high-speed multi-disk RAID for 4K media
Graphics card: min. 1 GB recommended for 4K and GPU-accelerated video processing

[George Dean]

Hi David,

If your budget doesn’t have room for an 8 core as Ole suggest, then I would lean on at least a 6 core as Paul suggest.

I’m using the i7-6800K (Asus 99A-II board), SSD, 68 GB Ram R9-380. It is fine for 1080p, and handles 4K, but by no means is it a 4K box. When I put this build together I had absolutely no intentions of shooting 4K. 3 months later I picked up a 4K camera!!! We often don’t know, what we don’t know, and at the time I was convinced I wasn’t going 4K! I was wrong about myself. You may know yourself better, but beware, if you have the budget and can get an 8 core, you will never look back. Just my personal opinion. I’m good with what I have, but if I had any idea back then, I would have dumped the extra money for an 8 core box.

Best Regards……George

[Aaron Star]

X99 and a 5930k would be better than a Skylake based system. Mainly due to the board design having 4 channels of memory interfacing.

Buy a motherboard that has the least DPC scores, there is a benchmark for this on Anandtech. Low DPC will make a difference for smooth operation/playback.

Max out out AMD GPU with most “Compute Units” not stream processors you can afford. That would pretty much mean an XT Class GPU chip with the R9-Fury X still being the superior card for 8-bit video work. The newer RX card have pretty much less everything, memory bandwidth, and GFLOP performance being the main things. W9100 if you want 10bit display abilities.

Get 32 or 64GB of RAM, and make sure to get the density of DIMMs to fill only the dual channel interfaces on the board. For an X99, that would be like 4 DIMM modules.

Get an NVMe M.2 for Boot

Get a PCIe based NVME SSD Card for project work, and use spinning disks only for project holding space. Put the PCIe SSD in the slots that hang off the CPU and not the X99 bridge.

Convert camera high compression media to an intermediate format like Cineform, Prores, X-AVC-Intra, HDCAM, or XDCAM (for HD) The camera original formats have a large over head to decompress, and put together the group of pictures back into sequence.

Skylake is not the best at the moment, and we are still waiting on the x99 class board and chip for the Gen6 or 7 CPUs that compare in design.

[Paul Berk]

Great post Aaron .. lots to chew on .. I’m thinking of an 8 core build in the next few months .. just starting to think about it. I never heard of some of the stuff you mentioned.

Thanks for the post.

[Tobias Von brockdorff]

Hi Aron,

I’m using Vegas Pro 14 and surching for the optimal PC System …
(I think magix didn’t changed anything about performance specs in comparison to 13 …)

Wich componets are you using, and wich are your experience with realtime playback stuttering images while using blend/wipe effects and/or more than one video layers …
Does your system play back a 4K Video out of the cam (like mxf xavc) fluently
also if there is a blendeffect maybe a simple crossfade
(or if you use more than one VFX like “colorcorrection curves”) ??

Best regards

Tobi

[Stephen Crye]

I’m seriously considering going the Mac route like John Rofrano did and buying a souped-up Mac, use it just for Vegas, my Windows Machine for everything else I need to do in my IT hell-world.

Steve

Win7 Pro X64 on Dell T7500, MultiTB SATA, 12GB RAM, nVidia Quadro 2000, Vegas 12, 11, 10, 9 DVDA 6.0 & 5.2(build 135) Sony HDR-CX550V, Panasonic GH3 with LUMIX G X VARIO 12-35mm / F2.8 ASPH, LUMIX G X VARIO 35-100mm / F2.8

[Ole Kristiansen]

Hmm, you have to install Windows on a Mac computer if you want to use Vegas Pro