1080p Editor Recycle Build

[daChurchPcGuy]

As you can tell from my user id I work for a church. We have someone that edits our videos for posting on YouTube and elsewhere at 480p. She's using an old Core 2 Duo E7500 with integrated graphics, ew.  My son and I are upgrading to Ryzen builds so are CPU/motherboard/RAM will be available. (i5 2400 & FX 6300)  The i5 is the better option of the two so that's the basic platform.

 

My question relates to GPUs: there are a load of used GPUs for decent dollars on ebay ... what's my best bang for the buck under $100?  This is strictly for editing and transcoding, not gaming.  Low power demand is a concern as well, I don't need to drive her utility bills up to save 10 minutes in transcoding an video.

 

The goal is to build it for as little cash as possible while allowing her to move up to 1080p on a Windows 10 PC.  

 

thanks

[AvocadosGuac]

6 minutes ago, daChurchPcGuy said:

I don't need to drive her utility bills up to save 10 minutes in transcoding an video.

There will be almost no difference unless you're paying some stupid rate for electricity.

Which ebay site do you use? ebay.ca/ebay.com etc?

[daChurchPcGuy]

Yes, I guess you're right, the 3GB short card version of the GTX 1060 requires around a 100W smaller power supply than the full sized 6GB model. I'm just used to cost cutting for power usage around the church and my mind gets stuck in that loop.  Hundreds of LED installs will do that to you.

 

ebay.com

 

My thought was GTX 1050 or 1060, depending on the best deal.  The money saved on the GPU could be used on a larger SSD or whatever. I may be upgrading myself to nvme if I can swing a PCIe gen 4 card for my 3600.

 

I am an experienced PC builder, I just don't do any video encoding builds for people.

Edited December 11, 2019 by daChurchPcGuy
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[boggy77]

do you now what software is used?

[SavageNeo]

7 hours ago, daChurchPcGuy said:

Yes, I guess you're right, the 3GB short card version of the GTX 1060 requires around a 100W smaller power supply than the full sized 6GB model. I'm just used to cost cutting for power usage around the church and my mind gets stuck in that loop.  Hundreds of LED installs will do that to you.

 

ebay.com

 

My thought was GTX 1050 or 1060, depending on the best deal.  The money saved on the GPU could be used on a larger SSD or whatever. I may be upgrading myself to nvme if I can swing a PCIe gen 4 card for my 3600.

 

I am an experienced PC builder, I just don't do any video encoding builds for people.

gxt 1050 and 1050 ti lose to used rx 570 4gb and used rx 470 4gb. The 1060 3gb is pretty muvh rx 580 4gb model or little worse

 

So best pet would be used rx 570 4gb or used rx 470 4gb

[daChurchPcGuy]

13 hours ago, boggy77 said:

do you now what software is used?

Probably just Windows Movie Maker right now. I'm going to try to shift her to something more powerful once the PC build is done.

[daChurchPcGuy]

10 hours ago, SavageNeo said:

gxt 1050 and 1050 ti lose to used rx 570 4gb and used rx 470 4gb. The 1060 3gb is pretty muvh rx 580 4gb model or little worse

 

So best pet would be used rx 570 4gb or used rx 470 4gb

Do the AMD cards have something like Nvidea NVENC? I have a GTX 1050 in my i7 Emby server because they support NVENC natively if I recall.

 

So if I find an Nvidea 1060 and an RX 570 or RX 470 for the same price, which is the better deal?  I haven't had an AMD graphics card in a long while but I'm pretty sure my son does run an RX 580 in his current gaming build.

[boggy77]

You can try to find an 1650

[Zando_]

13 minutes ago, daChurchPcGuy said:

Do the AMD cards have something like Nvidea NVENC? I have a GTX 1050 in my i7 Emby server because they support NVENC natively if I recall.

 

So if I find an Nvidea 1060 and an RX 570 or RX 470 for the same price, which is the better deal?  I haven't had an AMD graphics card in a long while but I'm pretty sure my son does run an RX 580 in his current gaming build.

NVENC is more for encoding streams/recordings, not rendering video out of an editing application. Depending on the app it may do better with AMD cards or it may want CUDA acceleration (which only Nvidia has). What software are they using? 

EDIT: See you already answered the software question, what software will you try and move them to after the upgrade? Davinci Resolve is free and pretty robust, IIRC that's fine with either OEM's GPUs, in which case an RX 570 would be the better choice.