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Budget (including currency): 2500 Euro Country: Sweden Games, programs or workloads that it will be used for: Clip studio paint, Adobe Photoshop, Adobe Premiere, Adobe After Effects Other details: Cintiq, dual 1440p monitors I was wondering if there's some kind of tool where you could weigh hardware against each other using benchmarks for certain software? I am starting to research CPU and GPU for a build and if there already exists a good tool for comparison it feels a little silly to google for hours.

Budget (including currency): $5,000 USD Country: US Games, programs or workloads that it will be used for: Blender, After Effects, Premiere Pro, DaVinci Resolve, and some gaming for fun, not too concerned with top notch FPS when gaming. Mostly want to cut through render times, and make the Blender viewport lightning fast. Other details (existing parts lists, whether any peripherals are needed, what you're upgrading from, when you're going to buy, what resolution and refresh rate you want to play at, etc): My current configuration is looking like: CPU: Ryzen 9 7950x Cooler: Arctic Liquid Freezer II 420 Motherboard: ASUS ProArt X760E CREATOR WIFI ATX GPU: ASUS TUF RTX 4090 24GB RAM: Kingston Fury 128GB (4x32GB) DDR5 5600MT/s CL36 FURY Beast Black EXPO SSD: Crucial P5 1TB PCIe Gen 4 NVMe M.2 x3 PSU: Corsair HX1200 Platinum 1200 W Case: Fractal Meshify 2 or Corsair 7000D Airflow My main concerns are around the instability of DDR5 running with AM5. I've heard people successfully running 128GB at around 3600, but the use of 2 DIMM slots at 64GB can yield up to the full 5600. For productivity tasks specifically, would programs like Blender/After Effects benefit most from the lower speed 128gb (mixed kits as well), or the full speed running 64gb? I'm okay to start with 64 and see if the BIOS updates catch up and DDR5 starts to play nice. Since the 7950x is always sprinting to the 95 C, I'm thinking the 420mm Arctic can help out keep those thermals under control. I'm also thinking the 1200w is generously on the safe side considering the power hungry CPU, GPU combo. Would also love some reference on the case, I'm attracted to the plentiful size of the 7000D, but mostly wanting the best airflow. Additionally, since this is my first ever build, feel free to throw out any general things I should be aware of / references or homework I should take a peek at. Thanks and of course all hail the LTT Screwdriver.

I use Premiere Pro and After Effects for video editing. I built a separate server to handle rendering to not bog down my editing rig. I set it up using media encoder. However, many of my projects utilize dynamic link between premiere and after effects. This gets missed when I have this machine render it. Any ideas on how to resolve this?

Budget (including currency): Max $2500, $2000 target. Country: United States of America (California) Games, programs or workloads that it will be used for: After effects, various 3D modeling, mid-heavy gaming such as Risk of Rain 2, Grounded, Elden Ring, and Ghostwire Tokyo. A friend of mine is looking to upgrade from a garbage tire laptop to a desktop for gaming and 3D modeling/after effects work for school. I've never done a build focused outside of gaming workloads and my knowledge is rusty as hell so I'd appreciate some help. He needs to wirelessly connect to the internet, he's working with a somewhat constrained space, see attached photo, and is looking for a larger 1440p 120Hz display with decent color accuracy. Personally I believe with such space constraints a micro-ATX or mini-ITX build with the Wi-Fi built into the motherboard is the best bet here. Last time I paid attention a build like this would have used a high core count Ryzen chip with high capacity fast RAM but I'm unsure if hardware has changed much over the years and I do not know how to look for a monitor with good color accuracy. If PC parts need to have a larger budget allocated to them, such as the GPU, my friend is ok with a 1080p display. Given the market used GPU's are acceptable as well. Edit: Anyone got a good keyboard recommendation as well? I'm rocking a model M and a Razer Death Adder Elite and I'm certain this is not a good combo to recommend to anyone for gaming lol. He wants something RGB if possible and I personally trust Razer but I'm open to all recommendations.

Hey! I'm looking to upgrade my RAM to 32GB for After Effects, Cinema4D and Premiere work. My current setup is as follows: - AMD Ryzen 3700x - G.Skill Trident Z RGB 16GB (2x8) 3200Mhz CL14 - Nvidia RTX 2080 Ti - Gigabyte x570 Aorus Elite I'm looking at the G.Skill Trident Z Neo RGB 32GB (2x16) 3200Mhz CL16 and the HyperX Fury RGB 32GB (2x16) 3200Mhz CL16, at 198€ and 170€ respectively. I'm planning to sell my current RAM sticks for maybe something around 85€. I'm aware 3200Mhz at CL14 is ideal for this CPU but the prices skyrocket way out of my budget and I've heard CL16 is also a pretty solid choice. My question is, is there a difference between the HyperX and the G.Skill sticks considering they have the same frequencies and latency or can there be differences in performance between the two due to different brands? If so, is it noticeable at all? Does the HyperX work as well with this Ryzen as the G.Skill does? Or do you have any other recommendations? Thank you!

Country: Spain (€) Games, programs or workloads that it will be used for: After Effects & Cinema 4D Hey! I want to start saving up for a Video Editing PC. I'm going to want to be able to use After Effects on the heavy side and render big workloads. What components will I have to prioritize? And, roughly, what budget will I be looking at? Thanks in advance!

Hi all, Trying to decide whether I should get the 3700x or 5600x with my priority use being video editing (I will be using it for gaming and streaming too but editing is Priority 1 as it's how I earn my living). A lot of sites and videos only talk about the render/encoding time differences and seemingly no one mentions what the differences are when actually using the programs with the different CPUs. The render time differences appear minimal and won't make as much difference to me compared to what it's like using PremPro or AE, like scrubbing through footage with heavy effects applied, or booting up and using After Effects with Premiere Pro running in the background (like if I replaced a clip in my PremPro timeline with an After Effects composition, something I do a lot to do things like make keyframe animations much better). If it helps, my other components for the PC are as follows: GPU - EVGA RTX 2060 XC CASE - NZXT H510 RAM - 32GB Corsair Vengeance LPX Black DDR4 - 3600 MHz - 2x16GB PSU - EVGA SuperNOVA 750 G5 SSD - Samsung 980 PRO 500GB PCIe 4.0 M.2 HDD - Seagate BarraCuda 4 TB Motherboard - ROG STRIX B550-F GAMING (WI-FI) I appreciate any help with this. Cheers!

Hi guys. First of all, I'm kind of new to this forum thing and what I'm about to ask might have been answered before, so sorry in advance if I'm asking the same question again. So I enjoy casual video editing. I'm still in the learning phase, and recently my computer performance was very slow considering my pc specs are pretty good. Specs: Ryzen 5 2600X GTX 1060 6G 16GB 3000MHz Asus TUF B450-Pro I have had 3 Hard drives, 2TB, 1TB (both 7200RPM) and the 3rd one was 700gb (5400RPM). My boot up time was really slow, my software load up time was very slow etc and finally I got enough money for an SSD, so I went for a 500GB Kingston A2000 M.2 NVMe budget SSD. I'm happy the time it takes my pc to fully turn on and become usable has gone down from 4-5 minutes to 20 seconds.. (I'm not exaggerating). So now for my question. I know putting premier pro in the SSD helps load up the software pretty fast, and so naturally I have done that. But for the Cache files and Media Files, I am using my Hard drives. both the 7200RPM drives for cache and media files respectively. Now I still hear people saying its a good idea to put the Media files in the SSD as it will help load and process the video data faster. So my question is, should I put the media files in the same SSD that I have my OS and Software in? Will that hurt the performance in anyway instead of using the Software, media and cache for premier pro in all different physical drives? Help would really be appreciated. If I missed something, please tell me, I'll be sure to provide the necessary information. Thank you

Budget (including currency): 450 Euro to 650 Euro Country: EU Games, programs or workloads that it will be used for: Mostly Adobe After Effects and Premiere Pro Other details: My current PC: CPU: Intel i7 3770K Motherboard: Gigabyte Technology Z68AP-D3 Ram: 16gb mhz Graphic: Geforce gtx 660 2gb Resolution: 2560 x 1080 Hi, I plan to upgrade my PC - new motherboard, RAM and CPU. I will use my PC mostly for work / rendering in Adobe After Effects. Basing on Gamers Nexus video [https://youtu.be/y7ukz8WUdW4?t=438] I gathered all processors I would be most interested in one place: https://i.imgur.com/FjxbLWD.png I though Ryzen 9 3900X would be the best choice for me because of the number of cores/threads/cache - but scored less points than other ones with less cores/threads. I found also article from 2019 where Ryzen 9 3900X scored just a bit more points then cheaper AMD Ryzen 7 3700. https://www.pugetsystems.com/labs/articles/After-Effects-CPU-Roundup-AMD-Ryzen-3rd-Gen-AMD-Threadripper-2-Intel-9th-Gen-Intel-X-series-1533/ As for the motherboard - I am looking for something with the B550 chipset RAM 32 GB 3600 mhz for better performance. What would you recomend? Thx for your help! Rejken

Budget (including currency): $2000 (but I don't mind going a tad over) Country: United States Games, programs or workloads that it will be used for: Premiere Pro, After Effects, Photoshop, OBS, Skype Other details To be frank with you all, I know nothing about PCs. I've spent nearly a decade on Macbook Pros but never considered investing in a PC until I started using more heavy duty applications. I'm starting from scratch. I need a PC plus a monitor and I don't know where to start. I really just need to be able to have multiple programs open at once (ie. OBS and Skype) and not encounter difficulties with streaming like encoding overloads. I also need a lot of space. I plan to edit rather high quality video and possibly 4k in the future. I think I've settled on a CPU (AMD Ryzen 7 3800X 3.9 GHz 8-Core Processor) but that's about it. I definitely want to have some kind of color aesthetic and I'm looking for purple/pink. Someone of reddit created a build for me but I don't know if it's any good (and it's a little too expensive for me). Type Item Price CPU AMD Ryzen 7 3800X 3.9 GHz 8-Core Processor $339.99 @ Amazon Motherboard MSI B550-A PRO ATX AM4 Motherboard $139.99 @ B&H Memory Corsair Vengeance RGB Pro 32 GB (2 x 16 GB) DDR4-3600 CL18 Memory $149.99 @ Amazon Storage Crucial P1 1 TB M.2-2280 NVME Solid State Drive $94.50 @ Newegg Video Card NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3080 10 GB Founders Edition Video Card $850.00 Case Fractal Design Meshify S2 ATX Mid Tower Case $161.99 @ B&H Power Supply Corsair RM (2019) 850 W 80+ Gold Certified Fully Modular ATX Power Supply $154.99 @ Corsair Monitor BenQ PD2700U 27.0" 3840x2160 60 Hz Monitor $499.00 @ Adorama Prices include shipping, taxes, rebates, and discounts Total $2390.45 Really, any help would be fantastic. Thank you guys in advance

Budget (including currency): $250 Country: United States Games, programs or workloads that it will be used for: After Effects, Premiere Pro, Inventor, Fusion 360 I have an i5-8400 (6 cores 6 threads) with 8gb ram, 16gb optane accelerating a 1tb hard drive. I have 250 dollars to upgrade this machine to either 1) i7-8700 + 16gb ram or 2) Just buy a 1660s. Which one would give me better performance in After Effects, better CPU+RAM but no GPU or not as good CPU with a GPU? Thanks!

I work as a video-editor and finally got a decent (overkill) workstation. Now when I render out my videos, I see my hardware is hardly being used. Both CPU and GPU are running around 5-6% when rendering. I know the PC is overkill but I expected a little more sweat or burning plastic while rendering my videos. I have CUDA enabled. Is there a way so that media encoder uses a bit more resources than it does right now? Specs: Ryzen Threadripper 3970x RTX 2080ti 128 GB RAM

Hi guys,, I'm planning to upgrade my GPU. Right now I'm using GT 1030 2GB for mobile video editing, but now I need an upgrade to edit/render 1080p-2k footage on Adobe Premiere pro, After effects and Davinci Resolve.. Please suggest me something.. my budget is around 20K INR My Setup.. Ryzen 5 3600 + Hyper 212 B450 Aorus M 16gb dual channel ram Corsair V lpx 3000mhz 240gb sata + 1 tb hdd (will add NVMe later) Corsair Cx 550 Nvidia GT 1030 2gb (current GPU) Cooler Master MB511 Thanks in advance!

Hey guys can anyone recommend a good monitor for my new Pc. I usually create motion graphic templates in A.E and I will also be doing a good bit of gaming. I have a RTX 2070 Super if that helps . I currently have an Acer R271 which has been okay but since I'm going 4K Id like at least a 32" inch monitor. My budget is around £800 but I could stretch it a little. Thanks for any recommendations. I have done a lot of searching but I thought I'd ask possibly some one might recommend one that I maybe haven't come across... Some features that i was looking for in the monitor; Wide Color Gamut: atleast 95 - 100% in either SRGB or DCI-P3?? HDR Freesync or G-Sync Nothing higher than 5ms response time IPS Panel Id like to get a monitor that would take advantage of the features of my gpu

Built my first PC this year so please be patient with my beginner knowledge! (Let me know if more specs are needed) Basically got the PC working, got adobe installed, and im not sure why im still getting sub par playback performance / rendering. Cinebench is 9006, yet it still seems to struggle with relatively simple projects. Opened up task manager to see if I could find an issue and turns out im only using 30% - 50% CPU while running AE / rendering in AME. Really not sure what my next steps should be. Pretty sure my drivers are up to date, my AE RAM usage is maxed, and I have 400gb on my NVME drive for storage that I purge frequently. Any idea why im only getting 30% - 50% cpu usage? GPU also varies around 10% as well using Mercury Playback Engine GPU Acceleration (CUDA), is that normal as I know AE is not necessarily made for GPU rendering. CPU - Ryzen 9 3950x 3.5 GHz 16 core MEMORY - GSKILL Ripjaws V 32 (2x16GB) ddr4-3600 GPU - MSI GeForce RTX 2080 Ti GB Gaming x Trio Storage - Sabrent Rocket 1tb NVME + Segate BarraCuda 2tb SSD Also for reference - https://linustechtips.com/main/topic/1166809-first-time-pc-build-after-effects-c4d-octane/?tab=comments#comment-13389501 https://pcpartpicker.com/user/teejco/saved/#view=cNXYgs

Hey y'all, Quick question I hope someone can answer for me. My girlfriend is making one last upgrade to her GPU in her workstation PC before we build her a new one. She needs something thats good for Premiere Pro and After Effects. I was looking at the Radeon Pro cards (W5500 probably) while she's looking at GTX 1660 Ti or possibly an RTX 2060 (budget is around $300-400). TBH when it comes to workstation GPUs I'm kinda lost, plus her CPU is a 4th gen i7-4820k so I was hoping someone could help us figure out if there'd be any bottlenecking with a newer/faster GPU. She currently has a GTX 1060 in the system. Thanks in advance.

Budget (including currency): 1800dollar (around 140000 INR) Country: India Games, programs or workloads that it will be used for: Mostly After Effects and Video Editing Other details (existing parts lists, whether any peripherals are needed, what you're upgrading from, when you're going to buy, what resolution and refresh rate you want to play at, etc): Hey, So I am a motion designer based in India and need help for the upcoming PC build. I do had taken few reference from Puget systems. Based on that I do had developed a system have a look. How I really use the PC? I do have heavy work on motion graphics done on after effects and lots of its scripts and extensions. There is no 3D element been imported from cinema 4D but use 3d camera and so. There are tons of shape layers. I dont do any vfx things. I do care scrubbing and caching should be fast. Then Premiere. I dont even put a single effect. Even a simple scale animation is done in After Effects. I think best way I would describe my Premiere use is to assemble the different animation into a complete video. Then comes audition which is used for changing a lot in sounds. Also I do open both after effects and premiere at the same time. And also quite many chrome tabs (sometimes chrome eats more ram then those software LOL.) And I dont care for gaming and neither too much fancy lighting except the front of the case Cabinet : Corsair 465x RGB (Moslty due to availabelity of installing 7 fan and look. Also I already using Icue for keyboard it helps in lighting effects easily) Processor : AMD ryzen 7 3700x. Puget System told processor with high clock speed is important. Q1. Should I get 3800x? I check review and comparison I feel that its like 6-8% boost. Q2. Should I overclock whatever the CPU I purchased? I dont know anything much on overclocking and havent done in past. Motherboard : MSI X570-A PRO (Cheapest 570 motherboard I find. I dont need any fancy gaming feature and neither wifi also need many USB ports for my different pheripherals) Graphics Card : Geforce GTX 1660 OC 6gb (Puget System told graphics card wont significantly Improve the performance also raytracing wont help after effects so I dont feel to invest in that area). Q3. I also use premiere for editing. But even my slight animation is done on After effects. And just use premiere to assemble the video and dont apply any effects. Is this graphics card is fine? SMPS : Cooler Master Bronze semi modular 750w Storage : Storage 1 : 500 gb 860evo 2.5 (OS and software) Storage 2 : 500 gb 860evo 2.5 (media and scratch) Storage 1 : 250 gb 860evo 2.5 (seperate scratch OPTIONAL or later upgrade) I dont need hard drive as I already own it. This idea is still came from puget system. Q4. Should I go with NVMe for scratch? Q5. Should I have seperate scratch drive? Q6. I thought to get 1 tb of 860evo as its just a little costlier than 500gb and use that as OS, software and media drive? Ram: Corsair 64gb ddr4 3000mhzvengeance (again puget recommed 64gb) Liquid Cooler : Corsair H100i Pro Rgb Q7. Is this is enough to cool even if I learned about overclocking and do it in future? Q8. Please tell me should I need amp or not? I do use lot of music in the tracks. Dont produce my own its from music subscription service. But do need to change a lot in effects. Q9. Do I need the thermal paste for liquid cooler? Q10. Should I go with Cooler Master Master Air MA621P TR4 Edition instead of liquid cooler? Please mention the changes, tips and guide and help in whatever way possible. Thanks

Does anyone have ANY clue what this guy is using to make his videos this smooth? I've tried my damndest to get my videos to look like this and cannot for the life of me. I record at 60 fps and render out to 60 fps but cannot achieve anything similar. I FEEL or think it is motion blur but I'm really not sure. I record and render/upload at 60FPS 1440p but if you watch the video it is almost like it has motion blur added too it. I've tried a ton of things and can't get anything close. I normally record on OBS with CQP at 15 and edit in After Effects and then render it out with a bitrate of 50 CBR through media encoder. I know this probably isn't the best place to ask but honestly I'm going to lose my mind if I don't ask others for help. x.x Here is the video in question I would contact him but he's currently in the Korean military until near the end of the year. So far I've tried the base motion blur option in AE, CC Force Motion Blur in AE, smart resample in Vegas, recording at a higher frame rate (120 to 240 fps to match my monitors refresh rate as I read this would make it replicate this "smoothness") and then trying both those options again, RSMB, Twixtor and I just cannot find how this video looks THIS smooth. If he used RSMB or Twixtor there would be warping but as far as I can see there isn't any at all. Any help or nudge in the right direction is greatly appreciated!

Taking the leap from Mac to PC and feeling a bit overwhelmed with all these choices. Got a couple builds going on PC part picker, but now I need to narrow it down. Mainly I do a hybrid of audio, video, and animation in after effects, but would also like to transition into more GPU heavy 3D - Likely C4D + Octane Any specific recommendations or even just generally how I should spread my spend to maximize would be great. Any good links for beginners building their first PCs or resources are cool too. Budget is ideally 5k for everything including mouse, keyboard, and monitor ... etc (recommendations for those are appreciated as well) Current spec 15.4-inch macbook pro (2880 x 1800) 2.5 GHz Intel Core i7 16 GB 1600 MHz DDR3 Intel Iris Pro 1536 MB Friends suggestion : [https://pcpartpicker.com/user/teejco/saved/#view=ZvWbhM]

Heres a little test thing I made for LMG's new channel, ShortCircuit! The idea was to have something that transitions seamlessly with the video Let me know what you think

When see your system requirements of Adobe After Effects 17.0, It says that requires Windows 10. Is there anyway to run Adobe After Effects 17.0 on any Windows 7 or 8.1 or Linux PC?

So guys here's the thing, I am a beginner in After Effects and know the basics of it and I want to create a Windows 10's Ribbon screensaver style effect in After Effect. Can anyone teach me how to do so or tell me the tools and steps at least??

So guys here's the thing, I am a beginner in After Effects and know the basics of it and I want to create a Windows 10's Ribbon screensaver style effect in After Effect. Can anyone teach me how to do so or tell me the tools and steps at least??

Note: This is my first post, so if there are any mistakes, apologies I'm looking to build a pc for Adobe After Effects projects which do most of the time, and I want a good mix of gaming experience for esports titles like Dota 2, CS GO and fortnite. What Stuff I already Have: -GTX 1050Ti 4GB OC (Not Willing to upgrade the GPU) -AMD Phenom ii X4 (older CPU, DDR3, bottlenecking my GPU most of the time, Want to upgrade it) Builds I'm confused between: So basically, being limited on the budget, and looking around the local market here, since amazon and ebay isn't an option in my location. I've come up with following combos to go with my GPU -HP Z220 Desktop Xeon E3-1225 v2 (No Hyperthreading) 16GB Ram (Normal Speed) I was thinking of getting this machine and putting in a E3-1240 v2 from AliExpress to go with the build as the motherboard supports it. -CUSTOM BUILDS i7 3770 16GB Ram (Not Sure about the Speed) Not Sure about the mobo -ANOTHER ONE i5 4th gen overclockable with a decent board with a possible i7 4th gen upgrade in the future 16GB Ram (Again not sure about the speed) I need recommendations about: as mentioned, mainly focusing on after effects. I need a recommendation on combo of motherboard cpu and ram, not latest builds, an older used build to go good with my budget and provide me with good performance as well.

So I had an hour or two to spare and the idea has been floating around my head for about a week. I wanted to do an update to the LTT Intro video that included the new logo. It doesn't really follow the new brand look as a whole and I am assuming the LTT will have a unique animation eventually. But for now I thought I would incorporate the new logo (which I am a big fan of) into the current intro video. I took a screenshot of the new logo, copied it in Illustrator, then animated it in After Effects. Here is the finished animation with music Gif version: Enjoy!