Planning an upgrade for Video Editing Stations at work

[Soujiro1337]

Budget (including currency): US$ 1500-2500

Country: Argentina

Games, programs or workloads that it will be used for: Adobe Suite, Premiere, After Effects, Remote Desktop

 

• Parts intended to be kept:

PSU: 650w Seasonic (more details unknown)

Case: Corsair full tower (more details unknown)

GPU: Nvidia Quadro K2200

Hard Drives

M2 SSD 500gb Samsung

 

• Parts to be upgraded:

Processor: Intel i7 5820K

RAM: 8 sticks of 8gb 2800hz

Motherboard: Asus X99 Pro

Cooler: Corsair Water Cooling (not sure on the model, but it was for socket FCLGA2011-3)

 

The original build is from around 2014/2015. The aim is to have two or three budgets: One just upgrading the Motherboard, Processor and RAM. Another adding another M2 SSD. And a final one that changes PSU, GPU as well. I'm not sure that the 650 PSU may be able to support a top of the line CPU by itself. I know the forums may not specialize in the Argentinean market, but we will be checking international prices too. Though our main concern is PSU support, and if the water cooler can be used on a newer socket with an adapter.

 

 

 

 

[boggy77]

cooler should fit (might need a bracket), psu might need upgrading depending on what model it is. 

you can only use 4 sticks of ram, so if you're fine with 32gb, keep half of what you have, otherwise, buy 4x16gb.

PCPartPicker Part List

Type	Item	Price
CPU	AMD Ryzen 9 5900X 3.7 GHz 12-Core Processor	$841.87 @ Newegg Argentina
Motherboard	MSI MAG B550 TOMAHAWK ATX AM4 Motherboard	$302.12 @ Newegg Argentina
Memory	G.Skill Flare X 64 GB (4 x 16 GB) DDR4-3200 CL16 Memory	$441.79 @ Newegg Argentina
Storage	Western Digital Blue SN550 1 TB M.2-2280 NVME Solid State Drive	$176.37 @ Newegg Argentina
Power Supply	Corsair RM (2019) 850 W 80+ Gold Certified Fully Modular ATX Power Supply	$254.14 @ Newegg Argentina
	Prices include shipping, taxes, rebates, and discounts
	Total	$2016.29
	Generated by PCPartPicker 2021-02-24 13:45 -03-0300

 

[Soujiro1337]

1 hour ago, boggy77 said:

cooler should fit (might need a bracket), psu might need upgrading depending on what model it is. 

you can only use 4 sticks of ram, so if you're fine with 32gb, keep half of what you have, otherwise, buy 4x16gb.

PCPartPicker Part List

Type	Item	Price
CPU	AMD Ryzen 9 5900X 3.7 GHz 12-Core Processor	$841.87 @ Newegg Argentina
Motherboard	MSI MAG B550 TOMAHAWK ATX AM4 Motherboard	$302.12 @ Newegg Argentina
Memory	G.Skill Flare X 64 GB (4 x 16 GB) DDR4-3200 CL16 Memory	$441.79 @ Newegg Argentina
Storage	Western Digital Blue SN550 1 TB M.2-2280 NVME Solid State Drive	$176.37 @ Newegg Argentina
Power Supply	Corsair RM (2019) 850 W 80+ Gold Certified Fully Modular ATX Power Supply	$254.14 @ Newegg Argentina
	Prices include shipping, taxes, rebates, and discounts
	Total	$2016.29
	Generated by PCPartPicker 2021-02-24 13:45 -03-0300

 

I was not aware of Newegg Argentina! Thanks for this. I think we're aiming for 128gb of ram. I'll see what we can get. Thanks again.

[Aereldor]

23 minutes ago, Soujiro1337 said:

I was not aware of Newegg Argentina! Thanks for this. I think we're aiming for 128gb of ram. I'll see what we can get. Thanks again.

You're going to hit a lot of different bottlenecks before you see RAM usage above 64GB, especially with that 12-core monstrosity. 

[brob]

Seasonic makes some very good psu and 650W is enough. So it's possible the psu would be fine. If not consider a Seasonic GX-650 or Corsair RMX 650.

 

A PCIe 4.0 m.2 drive should improve performance. The existing ssd could be used as a scratch drive.

 

PCPartPicker Part List

CPU: AMD Ryzen 9 5900X 3.7 GHz 12-Core Processor  ($841.87 @ Newegg Argentina) 
CPU Cooler: Noctua NH-U12S 55 CFM CPU Cooler  ($132.03 @ Newegg Argentina) 
Motherboard: MSI B550-A PRO ATX AM4 Motherboard  ($262.19 @ Newegg Argentina) 
Memory: Corsair Vengeance LPX 128 GB (4 x 32 GB) DDR4-3200 CL16 Memory  ($942.30 @ Newegg Argentina) 
Storage: Western Digital Black SN850 500 GB M.2-2280 NVME Solid State Drive  ($195.73 @ Newegg Argentina) 
Total: $2374.12
Prices include shipping, taxes, and discounts when available
Generated by PCPartPicker 2021-02-24 15:48 -03-0300

[Soujiro1337]

1 hour ago, Aereldor said:

You're going to hit a lot of different bottlenecks before you see RAM usage above 64GB, especially with that 12-core monstrosity. 

Thanks for this, I'll recommend 64gbs to the owner. However they are specifically asking for 128gbs of ram. Also, taking into account multiple employees may log in to a single PC.

[Aereldor]

Just now, Soujiro1337 said:

Thanks for this, I'll recommend 64gbs to the owner. However they are specifically asking for 128gbs of ram. Also, taking into account multiple employees may log in to a single PC.

Still going to be CPU bound. If there are only 3 people working off this with VMs, suddently they just have quad cores. Probably want to get something bigger, maybe even threadripper.

[boggy77]

22 minutes ago, Soujiro1337 said:

Thanks for this, I'll recommend 64gbs to the owner. However they are specifically asking for 128gbs of ram. Also, taking into account multiple employees may log in to a single PC.

For multiple people, go the 3950x or 5950x roure for extra cores. Threadripper is probably out of the budget. Ypu can probably find better prices locally than on newegg argentina, but this gives an indication of what you can get for the budget