Video editing rig

the_syco

Hey all.

I've been tasked with sorting out a new machine for a mate that uses Premiere and Davinci Resolve to make his own movies.

Current rig is Q6600, 1GB GT 220, 3GB RAM and I think about ten years old. And it's running Windows 10.He's doing 4k with this atm, I think.

The budget is €500 to €600.
I think the old thing was a Dell, so I doubt he'll be able to use the old PC case, or much inside it.

Current disk storage;
596GB Intel Raid 0 (no idea)
Samsung HD154UI 1.5 TB SATA 5400 (wait, a 5400RPM HDD for video? WUT????)
An OCZ 120GB Agility 3
Some 4TB Seagate external thing

Seems Davinci Resolve can use multiple threads, so the E3-1231v3 (I'm assuming the stock fan will do the job) for €262 looks good.

Thinking of a Gigabyte H97 or H87? Something is telling me not to get the B85 chipset, but I forget why. Are they limited somehow? The H87 are about €82 to €90

I'm in two minds about the graphics card.
Would probably get the 2GB K620 for €180 over the 1GB K600 for €160, but also looking at 4GB GTX 960 for €240, as the person who has asked me to look into this on behalf of another mate is of the opinion that more GDDR RAM there is, the better it'll render.

Have read a few sites saying that the K620 is grand, but other sites say that the 960 has many more CUDA cores (Davinci Resolve supports the use of CUDA cores), and thus would be better.

Or, take TerrorFirmer's advice from the other thread and get a cheap GFX card now (shall el cheapo graphics show 4k after it's rendered?), with a view to upgrade at a later date?
GeForce GT720 is cheap'ish.

Shall be (oh dear, there goes the budget) getting a 400W Be Quite! PSU for €40'ish (or would I need 500W?), and if I do go cheap on the GFX card, I'd maybe get a Crucial SSD 250GB BX100 (would 370 MBps write be enough for 4K video?)

And some Corsair Vengeance - DDR3 - 8 GB for €60 to finish it off.

Checked the following through Geizhals but got nothing.

CPU; E3-1231v3 - €262
Mobo; H97 - €83
PSU; 400W Be Quite! - €40'ish
RAM; Corsair Vengeance 8GB - €54
SSD; Crucial SSD 250GB BX100 - €88
GFX; GeForce GT720 - €58
Total; €585 + shipping = limit

What say ye?

Digital Solitude

My drunken mind says 400w will be G but cutting it close. Not sure of the draw of the card though

the_syco

Digital Solitude wrote: »

My drunken mind says 400w will be G but cutting it close. Not sure of the draw of the card though

How much should I increase it to? 600W? Keeping in mind, that although I'll start off with a basic card, my mate will most likely upgrade at a later stage.

Digital Solitude

500w is loads for most single gaming cards, like up to GTX 970 or R9 290x levels so I'd say it'd be grand for any regular card he uses

the_syco

Updated;

the_syco wrote: »

CPU; E3-1231v3 - €262
Mobo; H97 - €83
PSU; be quiet! SYSTEM POWER 7 500W - €62
RAM; Corsair Vengeance 8GB - €54
SSD; Crucial SSD 250GB BX100 - €88
GFX; GeForce GT720 - €58
Total; €607 - not including shipping (how much is it these days?)

Looking at this, it'd seem CPU matters, but so too does a decent for certain parts. Although I could go for a cheaper ATI, a few places have said not to mix ATI and non-ATI, and whilst I'm not sure if it's true, best not making the chance.

percy212

I am very impressed that someone can come up with a video editing rig for 600 euro. Looks great. When I think of the money I wasted in the past on....[you know what].

I think I would want 16gb of RAM if it were me. Just saying...ok leaving now!

TerrorFirmer

If you're running something that utilizes an Nvidia card might as well go for something like a GTX750 now if you can, has about triple the CUDA cores of the GT720 which is frankly a waste of time. Even a GT740 would be a massive improvement at around 30 euro extra.

Or else GTX560's also sell for around €50 second hand if you want to keep costs down and would be much faster than a GT720. Example here.

the_syco

TerrorFirmer wrote: »

Or else GTX560's also sell for around €50 second hand if you want to keep costs down and would be much faster than a GT720. Example here.

Shall advise that. The €600 budget that I was given has been breached, so not sure how much wriggle room he has.

frozenfrozen

Does he have a 4k monitor? gtx560 will only display up to 2560x1600 so be careful of that. won't stop editing 4k footage but just for displaying it. I use a gtx580 with resolve and it's fine, it complains a bit that there's only one gpu because it wants one for displaying and one for cuda stuff but it works pretty well

TerrorFirmer

Good spot, didn't even think of that.

the_syco

Going to skimp on the SSD, and get a decent GFX for now;

http://i.imgur.com/XzVJvTw.png

TerrorFirmer

A 2GB GTX750 is cheaper and way faster.

It has also more CUDA cores.

the_syco

TerrorFirmer wrote: »

A 2GB GTX750 is cheaper and way faster.

It has also more CUDA cores.

Oooooooo and only 109

the_syco

Shyzers...
http://www.hardwareversand.de/en/DDR3/239631/Sale%3A+Gigabyte+GA-H97-HD3%2C+Sockel+1150%2C+ATX.article

Compatible Processors Pentium, Celeron, Core i5, Core i3, Core i7

Would that include the xeons?

/edit

Seems it will, if the mobo bios is F2 or after.

frozenfrozen

what about this 750ti http://www.amazon.co.uk/gp/product/B00IGQ4ZHY/ref=as_li_qf_sp_asin_il_tl?ie=UTF8&camp=1634&creative=6738&creativeASIN=B00IGQ4ZHY&linkCode=as2&tag=few05-21

140 euro (99 pounds) on offer at the moment, looks like a decent price for it

percy212

How did you get on with this build? Would love to know what final configuration you went with.