2 "Builds" for college

[Leah96xxx]

Hey guys,

Sorry if this is in the wrong section.

My college has tasked me with picking parts and planning builds for 2 scenarios:

• a music producer with £700/US$915 budget
• a video editor (using Adobe Premier) with no budget but wants to keep it cheap

I was just wondering if you guys can give me some feedback on my chosen parts. Both "builds" will be running Win10 Pro x64.

 

Build 1: Music Producer (£700/US$915 budget):

• CPU: AMD Ryzen 5 3600 w/ AMD Wraith Stealth cooler
• Mobo: MSI B450M PRO-VDH MAX MSI B450M-A PRO MAX
• RAM: Corsair Vengeance LPX 2400 C16 2x8GB
• GPU: Gigabyte GeForce GT 1030 2GB silent
• Boot: Patriot Viper VPN100 512GB M.2 SSD
• Data: Toshiba X300 5TB HDD
• Case: Aero Cool CS103 mATX
• PSU: Aero Cool Integrator 500W 80+

Total cost: £698/US$913 (including Windows)

 

Build 2: Video editor (no budget but keep it relatively cheap):

• CPU: Intel Core i9-9900KF (probably wouldn't be overclocked)
• Cooler: Cooler Master Hyper H412R
• Mobo: ASRock B365M Pro4
• RAM: Corsair Vengeance LPX 2666 C16 2x8GB
• GPU: Gigabyte GeForce RTX 2060 Super Windforce 8GB
• Boot: Patriot Viper VPN100 512GB M.2 SSD
• Data: Toshiba X300 5TB HDD (will recommend adding more in RAID 1 or 5)
• Case: CiT Jet Stream Mid Tower
• PSU: Aero Cool Integrator 500W 80+ (I might pick a more powerful one, especially if I'm recommending RAID)

Total cost: £1314/US$1719 (including Windows)

 

What do you guys think?

Note that I've picked the Patriot Viper VPN100 for both because I've personally had a good experience with that drive. Also, I don't need peripherals and monitor count is unspecified.

[emosun]

10 minutes ago, steakpie1996 said:

GPU: Gigabyte GeForce RTX 2060 Super Windforce 8GB

why is this in the video editing build , videos are 2D not 3D

if you're rendering with this , then why does it have 9900kf

[Leah96xxx]

9 minutes ago, emosun said:

why is this in the video editing build , videos are 2D not 3D

if you're rendering with this , then why does it have 9900kf

This is why I'm asking for help. I know about music production but I know next to nothing about video editing. I just roughly followed the recommendations Adobe gives for Premier Pro. I was also in a bit of a hurry when I picked my parts for the editing build so I've probably gone a bit overkill on everything.

 

This is the exact task I was given:

Quote

Produce a computer specification for each of the following briefs.  For each specification, write a short report explaining why the specification is appropriate. This must include references to each of the following: 

 ♦ motherboard

♦ processor, including cache

♦ memory

♦ storage

♦ expansion cards

♦ operating system

♦ cost  

Brief 1  You have recently opened a computer shop and amongst other things you offer a PC building service. A potential customer has asked you to build him a machine on which he can record and edit music. He would like to spend no more than £700 and doesn’t need a monitor, keyboard or mouse.  

Brief 2  You are asked by another potential customer to build a PC which would be suitable for video editing using Adobe Premiere software. He has no fixed budget however he would like it to be as inexpensive as possible.

EDIT: I'm also pretty new to PC building and part picking. I've only ever built 1 PC (see Frankenstein 2.0 in my signature).

[emosun]

Well firstly for brief 2 , almost any computer can run premiere. Premiere has been around for years and seeing as they gave no version requirement and listed "cheap as possible" then you can simply choose a 100$ cheapo hp enterprise machine and run cs4 on it.

I'd use their ambiguity in their specs to your advantage to make it easier.

Again , for brief 1 , computers have been editing music for over 30 years so almost any machine can do that.

6 minutes ago, steakpie1996 said:

For each specification, write a short report explaining why the specification is appropriate.

You can literally explain due to the non specificity of the problem the machines would be extremely cheap or even free.

SPECIFICS.... are the determining factors when giving advice to people. It's what prevents people from building 1500$ machines for someone who just wanted to watch youtube and use facebook.

[Leah96xxx]

1 minute ago, emosun said:

Well firstly for brief 2 , almost any computer can run premiere. Premiere has been around for years and seeing as they gave no no version requirement and listed "cheap as possible" then you can simply choose a 100$ cheapo hp enterprise machine and run cs4 on it.

I know that the brief isn't very clear but we've been told to assume that the "customers" are professionals who will be using the latest version of the software (I should have mentioned that before, sorry), so a cheapo $100 machine isn't really appropriate.

 

2 minutes ago, emosun said:

Again , for brief one , computers have been editing music for over 30 years so almost any machine can do that.

You are partly right when you say that any machine can edit music, but from my own personal experience as a music producer AND Image-Line's recommendations for FL Studio 20, you need at least 8-16GB of RAM and a CPU with good single-core and multi-core performance. We'll ignore the music build for now as I'm happy enough with that.

 

9 minutes ago, emosun said:

You can literally explain due to the non specificity of the problem the machines would be extremely cheap or even free.

 

SPECIFICS.... are the determining factors when giving advice to people. It's what prevents people from building 1500$ machines for someone who just wanted to watch youtube and use facebook.

Unfortunately I can't do that as it's technically an assessment. I'd get an automatic fail if I just made a half-hearted attempt to plan the build (another reason why a $100 PC isn't appropriate). My college isn't very specific when it comes to anything really. Neither customer will be using their computer for simply just browsing Facebook or YouTube, I know that much. Like I said above, we have to assume they are pros, or at least semi-pros who will be using the latest software.

 

What I should really be asking is what you would recommend for a reasonably priced machine that can efficiently run Adobe Premier Pro (I'm guessing it's for at least 4K since this is 2019)? What CPU and GPU would you choose for a semi-pro to pro video editor? Sorry for not being more specific before.

[Leah96xxx]

I just found Linus' video "4K Video Editing PC on a BUDGET" from October. Looks like I definitely went overboard with my choice of parts for brief 2. I don't mean to sound like a little fan-girl or a copycat but I've decided to follow his advice and put the Ryzen 5 3600 in the video editing rig too with a GTX 1650.

 

Also, it turns out that I posted the wrong mobo for brief 1. The B450M-A Pro Max is the £58 option I was looking at, not the B450M Pro-VDH I mentioned above, that one would knock the build over-budget. On that note, I also kind of followed Linus' advice for the video rig and picked the B450-A Pro Max (the B450-A Pro Linus used ins't available in the UK for some reason) since it's just the ATX version of the one I used for brief 1 with more SATA ports for extra drives and more DIMM slots to make it upgradeable.