Budget Video Editing PC

[nuxsh]

Budget (including currency): $900-$1000

Country: United States

Games, programs or workloads that it will be used for:  Video Editing, Web browsing (10 - 20 tabs), 3D design w/ blender [ EDIT: I'm also going to be using it for Coding]

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): 

Existing Parts list:

CPU: Ryzen 5 3600

MOBO: MSI B450M PRO-VDH MAX Micro ATX AM4

RAM: Corsair Vengeance LPX 2 x 8 GB

GPU: nVidia 1650 SUPER / Radeon 570

SSD: Crucial P2 500GB

HDD: Seagate Barracuda 1TB

Case: NZXT H510 / Silverstone Fara R1

PSU: Corsair CX650M

Monitor: Full HD 1920 x 1080

 

I'm upgrading from a Lenovo ideapad 100 w/ 4GB ram and an i3 5005U. Yeah, it's a HUGE Upgrade.

 

Edited January 29, 2021 by nuxsh

[nuxsh]

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That’s overall a pretty good build for the price, I would say with photo editing you should drop some raw performance and buy a high accuracy monitor.

something like the current dell ultrasharp line, or maybe an older used one

thatll cost at minimum a few hundred dollars though, so you’d probably be omitting the nicer case, maybe starting with less ram and upgrading later, maybe a lower end or secondhand processor 

but for photo editing, a monitor with good color accuracy is important and it’s a worthwhile investment over performance based hardware which only saves you time by being faster to render

get a Ryzen 3 3300x or something for dirt cheap, it’ll still perform great but not as good as a 3600, omit the more current gpu and buy a secondhand 3gb 1060, spend the savings on a good monitor

 

I am looking forward to editing 4K video sometime in the future once I upgrade to more RAM and a better GPU, so the 3300X isn't really an option.

My friend has an old LG monitor that has pretty good colors, so I'm going to be using that.

DaVinci Resolve uses GPU acceleration for rendering so  I need  at least 4GB of VRAM. I'm considering a secondhand card though.

 

Thank you!

 

[Gum Joe]

I'd second what @8tg said - overall, looks like a solid config. You mentioned about the old LG monitors - I'd recommend possibly hiring a colour calibration device just to make sure the colours on the old LG are up to scratch and as accurate as possible. The monitors section on the forum has some good stuff on this matter.

 

Also, for picking a GPU I highly recommend Puget Systems' benchmark pages - they provide thorough benchmarks results for creative applications such as Blender and DaVinci.

See here: Puget Custom Computers: PC Hardware Articles (pugetsystems.com)