Need help | PC build for After Effects and Video Editing

[mayankmaurya76]

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 

 

 

 

[Entropy.]

2 minutes ago, mayankmaurya76 said:

 

 

For storage, Samsung is shit for the price. Try something else. For the motherboard, just wait for the MSI x570 Tomahawk or use the B450 Tomahawk MAX, as most cheap x570's are a joke.

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16 minutes ago, mayankmaurya76 said:

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?

I would go for a 1tb instead of the 2 500s. If you want, you can always partition the drive so it shows up as 2 500s.