Video Editing

KingJefrey · January 17, 2021

Budget (including currency): around $1500

Country: Philippines

Games, programs or workloads that it will be used for: Adobe Premiere, Filmora

Other details Pricing in our country is around 30%-40% more expensive

I am looking to build an video editing software for my YouTube Channel, current my specs are

Intel I5-6500

Samsung 860 250GB

16GB RAM

MSI RX 470 4GB

The problem with my current spec is the video playback/preview is horrible, it like not playing at all or too laggy, is it my computer?

I usually upgrade every 5 years and planning to upgrade this year even it is just the 4th year. Do you think this specs is good for video editing, difference below is the number core and memory. It says Adobe premiere prefers better per core performance but supports upto 8 core

AMD Ryzen 5 5600X

Gigabyte B550M DS3H

G-Skill Ripjaws V Black 2X16GB Ddr4 3600

Samsung 970 Evo Plus M.2 NVME 500GB

Western Digital WD Blue 4TB 64MB WD40EZRZ

Seasonic Focus+ 750FX 750watts 80+ Gold full modular

Zotac RTX 2060 Super Mini 8GB

or

AMD Ryzen 5 3700X

Gigabyte B550M DS3H

G-Skill Ripjaws V Black 4X16GB Ddr4 3600

Samsung 970 Evo Plus M.2 NVME 500GB

Western Digital WD Blue 4TB 64MB WD40EZRZ

Seasonic Focus+ 750FX 750watts 80+ Gold full modular

Zotac RTX 2060 Super Mini 8GB

One of my other option is to use my old video card RX 470 and keep it until it breaks then upsize my ram to 64GB

or go with Intel 10700K + MSI MAG Z490 Tomahawk

10700K is $100 more expensive than 3700x here in our country

or if you have any recommendation that won't break the bank

Kisai · January 17, 2021

1 hour ago, KingJefrey said:

Budget (including currency): around $1500

Country: Philippines

Games, programs or workloads that it will be used for: Adobe Premiere, Filmora

Other details Pricing in our country is around 30%-40% more expensive

I am looking to build an video editing software for my YouTube Channel, current my specs are

Intel I5-6500

Samsung 860 250GB

16GB RAM

MSI RX 470 4GB

The problem with my current spec is the video playback/preview is horrible, it like not playing at all or too laggy, is it my computer?

I usually upgrade every 5 years and planning to upgrade this year even it is just the 4th year. Do you think this specs is good for video editing, difference below is the number core and memory. It says Adobe premiere prefers better per core performance but supports upto 8 core

AMD Ryzen 5 5600X

Gigabyte B550M DS3H

G-Skill Ripjaws V Black 2X16GB Ddr4 3600

Samsung 970 Evo Plus M.2 NVME 500GB

Western Digital WD Blue 4TB 64MB WD40EZRZ

Seasonic Focus+ 750FX 750watts 80+ Gold full modular

Zotac RTX 2060 Super Mini 8GB

or

AMD Ryzen 5 3700X

Gigabyte B550M DS3H

G-Skill Ripjaws V Black 4X16GB Ddr4 3600

Samsung 970 Evo Plus M.2 NVME 500GB

Western Digital WD Blue 4TB 64MB WD40EZRZ

Seasonic Focus+ 750FX 750watts 80+ Gold full modular

Zotac RTX 2060 Super Mini 8GB

One of my other option is to use my old video card RX 470 and keep it until it breaks then upsize my ram to 64GB

or go with Intel 10700K + MSI MAG Z490 Tomahawk

10700K is $100 more expensive than 3700x here in our country

or if you have any recommendation that won't break the bank

If you just need to do video editing a GTX/RTX x70 part is probably the most the software will be able to utilize, and if you're only working in HD, not 4K, you might even get away with less. However driver support has been dropped for Kepler and earlier boards, so only Maxwell (9xx), Pascal (10xxx) parts should be reused in such a system.

Any 6-core or 8-core CPU is fine, if not overkill. If possible, try to get 32GB or 64GB ram as a set.

Always test the software after you change the hardware, as AMD parts tend to not be optimized the best for media software, so you might have special cases where something like Adobe Premier, or Vegas may work better with the Intel or AMD cpu because the SIMD instructions are better utilized, or the core speeds change differently when AVX is used and so forth.