New PC for Video Editing

Thanks for that K.O.Kiki, proud to see a few of those components were in a build I was cobbling together. Will do a bit of reading up on the benefits of changing the GPU, never heard of Inno3D brand before. Otherwise looks good, would go for a bigger case though, like to have loads of room and space is not an issue where it is going. Not interest in LEDs etc.

Well that throws a spanner in the works, I have had Intel forever, from my first PC from HE Clissman in the 80's when an extra 1Mb of memory cost an additional £100! I had recently come around to AMD was the way to go, will have to reconsider now.

OK, huge range of prices between models 510, 520, 530, 540. the 510 and 530 are most reasonable, will they be ok?

https://de.pcpartpicker.com/products/compare/vMFKHx,wXJgXL,8VvdnQ,pkwmP6/

Thanks k.O.KiKi. The M2 drives have the option of a heatsync or not, do I need it?

I have several 4TB drives in old machine to transfer over, just data files.

That raid until for the M2's looks interesting but beyond my abilities for the moment, will be happy just to get it built and can look at that again. I am pretty good at backing stuff up nowadays, after lessons learned previously.

Still looking for a case, not sold on the Pure 500DX or any others I found. My current case is a CoolMaster CM Storm Trooper and I love it for many reasons. 1) It's huge, easy to work in. 2) It has a great handle for moving around 3) 5.25" slots at the front CD/DVD drives and 4) it has a very handy hotswap slot for SSD drives. Can't find anything similar for a reasonable price. Unfortunately I have promised this one to someone so I can't use it and anyway for a new build I would like a new case.

In the end I went with the Pure Base 500DX case. I got all the baskets ready to order only to find out the German sellers, apart from Amazon don't ship to Ireland - that was a surprise. Had to do a bit of reshuffling including changing the memory from black to white and ordered most stuff from Amazon.de, powersupply form Amazon.co.uk and GPU from Paradigit. So everything now ordered. Thanks for all the assistance.

I need to look for a monitor now (30"/32" suitable for 4k, not for gaming so refresh rate not as important.) and an external optical drive for occasional DVD writing duties.

Just thought I would give an update. All parts arrived safely and on time, the build went very well with the assistance of my nephew who loves this kind of thing. Everything worked first time.

Took ages getting all software, settings and data transferred across, but it all worked. I am still not sure everything is set up correctly to maximise speed etc, but everything works so I am happy. I did some editing in DaVinci Resolve today and it was a breeze, PC flew through he renders.

First time using Windows 11, so that took a bit of getting used too, but not as bad as I feared (so far).

So thanks to everyone who made suggestions or recommendations. If this build lasts as long as the last one I will be a very happy camper.

PS. The only thing that did not work is the LED on the front of the case, as I had already mentioned I was not interested in leds, internally or externally it doesn't matter, but if something was not going to work I am glad it was the LEDs :-)

Sorry, missed this reply. No not really I didn't have much 4k footage to work with, but I added a few clips I have and played around with them and no problems.

I did have a HD project with 4 video and 5 audio tracks and that was a walk in the park, even with clips that had stabilisation and noise reduction etc, previews were perfect no dropped frames or blank previews like before.