Video Editing/Light Gaming PC

[DashLB]

Budget (including currency): $750

Country: United States

Games, programs or workloads that it will be used for: Premiere Pro, Photoshop, Illustrator

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): https://pcpartpicker.com/list/r9hH8J

 

here's a parts list I made for my friend who wants to edit in 1080p and 4k, hes on a budget : https://pcpartpicker.com/list/r9hH8J

anything I need to tweak or does this look good?

 

[Alireza]

you should buy an nvidia card to have the best experience with premier because it can use cuda core for gpu acceleration

you probebly can find used gtx 1070 or rtx 2060s for 180 to 200$

also a quad core cpu can have a pretty bad time while editing 4k videos

also that motherboard cant handle 3600mhz ram

it only goes up to 3200 and cpu can only handle 2933mhz

so you better buy a 32 gb kit that is rated for 3000mhz

[Grabhanem]

3 minutes ago, Alireza said:

you should buy an nvidia card to have the best experience with premier because it can use cuda core for gpu acceleration

you probebly can find used gtx 1070 or rtx 2060s for 180 to 200$

also a quad core cpu can have a pretty bad time while editing 4k videos

also that motherboard cant handle 3600mhz ram

it only goes up to 3200 and cpu can only handle 2933mhz

so you better buy a 32 gb kit that is rated for 3000mhz

As far as I can tell, Premiere can use either OpenCL or CUDA.

Agreed on the 570 not being the best value at that price though -- a used 1070, used Vega 56, or new 1660 will generally be better.

Agreed that the CPU would be the first thing to upgrade.

The motherboard can handle 3600mhz fine -- AMD doesn't lock memory speeds like Intel does, even on their low-end boards
I would see if you can get something a bit better for the price, though, as Gigabyte's B450 VRM is pretty bad.

OP, are you OK going used?

[Alireza]

2 minutes ago, Grabhanem said:

As far as I can tell, Premiere can use either OpenCL or CUDA.

Agreed on the 570 not being the best value at that price though -- a used 1070, used Vega 56, or new 1660 will generally be better.

Agreed that the CPU would be the first thing to upgrade.

The motherboard can handle 3600mhz fine -- AMD doesn't lock memory speeds like Intel does, even on their low-end boards
I would see if you can get something a bit better for the price, though, as Gigabyte's B450 VRM is pretty bad.

OP, are you OK going used?

agreed with the VRM

but he is on budget as far as he wants to use the stock cooler and spent all his money on RAW performance

and about the memory

well i just read the specs and nothing more so maybe your right

also OpenCL vs CUDA ??????

i think we both know the absolute king is CUDA

but he cant go with Vega because he need a much better power supply and a good cooling configuration since VEGA......you know

its just eats power and output heat

[Grabhanem]

Some builds I drew up:

All new parts:

PCPartPicker Part List

Type	Item	Price
CPU	AMD Ryzen 5 1600 (12nm) 3.2 GHz 6-Core Processor	$149.99 @ Amazon
Motherboard	ASRock B450M PRO4 Micro ATX AM4 Motherboard	$82.99 @ Newegg
Memory	Team T-FORCE VULCAN Z 32 GB (2 x 16 GB) DDR4-3200 CL16 Memory	$109.99 @ Newegg
Storage	Crucial P2 500 GB M.2-2280 NVME Solid State Drive	$50.99 @ Amazon
Video Card	Gigabyte Radeon RX 5500 XT 4 GB OC Video Card	$179.99 @ Newegg
Case	Cooler Master N200 MicroATX Mini Tower Case	$44.99 @ Amazon
Power Supply	Corsair CX (2017) 450 W 80+ Bronze Certified ATX Power Supply	$44.94 @ Newegg
	Prices include shipping, taxes, rebates, and discounts
	Total (before mail-in rebates)	$683.88
	Mail-in rebates	-$20.00
	Total	$663.88
	Generated by PCPartPicker 2020-12-10 17:18 EST-0500

If you can find a good deal used on an RX 480/570/580 or similar:

PCPartPicker Part List

Type	Item	Price
CPU	AMD Ryzen 5 3600 3.6 GHz 6-Core Processor	$232.98 @ Newegg
Motherboard	ASRock B450M PRO4 Micro ATX AM4 Motherboard	$82.99 @ Newegg
Memory	Team T-FORCE DARK Za 32 GB (2 x 16 GB) DDR4-3600 CL18 Memory	$119.99 @ Newegg
Storage	Crucial P2 500 GB M.2-2280 NVME Solid State Drive	$50.99 @ Amazon
Video Card	Sapphire Radeon RX 580 8 GB PULSE Video Card	$100.00
Case	Cooler Master N200 MicroATX Mini Tower Case	$44.99 @ Amazon
Power Supply	Corsair CX (2017) 450 W 80+ Bronze Certified ATX Power Supply	$44.94 @ Newegg
	Prices include shipping, taxes, rebates, and discounts
	Total (before mail-in rebates)	$696.88
	Mail-in rebates	-$20.00
	Total	$676.88
	Generated by PCPartPicker 2020-12-10 17:19 EST-0500

Both builds have a bit of wiggle room on your original budget if you wanted to add more storage, get a basic aircooler, get a slightly nicer case, etc.

[DashLB]

21 minutes ago, Grabhanem said:

As far as I can tell, Premiere can use either OpenCL or CUDA.

Agreed on the 570 not being the best value at that price though -- a used 1070, used Vega 56, or new 1660 will generally be better.

Agreed that the CPU would be the first thing to upgrade.

The motherboard can handle 3600mhz fine -- AMD doesn't lock memory speeds like Intel does, even on their low-end boards
I would see if you can get something a bit better for the price, though, as Gigabyte's B450 VRM is pretty bad.

OP, are you OK going used?

Yeah there's nothing wrong with used, my friend insists on using this free editing software he found which probably doesn't take much advantage of cuda cores. I'll let you know what software.