Video Editing Spec Advice

[richardswiss]

Hi 

 

I am looking to build up a good video editing machine that will provide a few good years of service with the ability to upgrade in the future. I have pulled together the following spec and am now trying to finalise the build and get going. 

 

Essentially I use Adobe Premiere Pro, After Effects, Photoshop, InDesign and Illustrator with Premiere Pro my main focus. I want the PC to also have plenty of storage to host video and photo file and provide quick access to a library of content via Adobe Bridge. 

 

So down to the questions:

 

Is this a good spec or are there other motherboard, processor graphics cards I should consider? Especially those certified by Adobe?

 

System Spec

 

Intel Canoe i7 5820k (3.3GHz / 15MB)

MSI X99A SLI PLUS S2011-3 X99 ATX

Coller master Fan hyper 212 Evo

Kingston HyperX Fury Black Ed. - 16GB (2x8GB)

Asus GeForce GTX 960 2GB

Corsair PSU CX750M

Samsung SSD 850 Evo Basic 250GB (Operating System)

Samsung SSD 850 Evo Basic 512GB (Project Files)

2x Western Digital Red 2TB  (????)

ASUS DRW-24F1ST

Icy Box IB-865 3.5 inch Multicard Reader with USB 3.0 Hub

Microsoft Windows 10 Home 64 Bit

Fractal Design Define R5 White Computer Case

 

Any assistance would be greatly appreciated. 

 

Many thanks

 

Richard

[ShadowCaptain]

Hi 

 

 

 

Don't get reds, those are for NAS drives, 

CX750M - get a better PSU

 

everything else is ok, I would personally get a better GPU but if you arent gaming then the 960 is fine for editing useage

[Rafferz]

Hi 

 

I am looking to build up a good video editing machine that will provide a few good years of service with the ability to upgrade in the future. I have pulled together the following spec and am now trying to finalise the build and get going. 

 

Essentially I use Adobe Premiere Pro, After Effects, Photoshop, InDesign and Illustrator with Premiere Pro my main focus. I want the PC to also have plenty of storage to host video and photo file and provide quick access to a library of content via Adobe Bridge. 

 

So down to the questions:

 

Is this a good spec or are there other motherboard, processor graphics cards I should consider? Especially those certified by Adobe?

 

System Spec

 

Intel Canoe i7 5820k (3.3GHz / 15MB)

MSI X99A SLI PLUS S2011-3 X99 ATX

Coller master Fan hyper 212 Evo

Kingston HyperX Fury Black Ed. - 16GB (2x8GB)

Asus GeForce GTX 960 2GB

Corsair PSU CX750M

Samsung SSD 850 Evo Basic 250GB (Operating System)

Samsung SSD 850 Evo Basic 512GB (Project Files)

2x Western Digital Red 2TB  (????)

ASUS DRW-24F1ST

Icy Box IB-865 3.5 inch Multicard Reader with USB 3.0 Hub

Microsoft Windows 10 Home 64 Bit

Fractal Design Define R5 White Computer Case

 

Any assistance would be greatly appreciated. 

 

Many thanks

 

Richard

960 with 5820k talk about balance

[fluffy_ninja]

Asus GeForce GTX 960 2GB

Samsung SSD 850 Evo Basic 512GB (Project Files)

2x Western Digital Red 2TB  (????)

I'd get rid of one of the hard drives (probably one of the 2tb hdds) and get a 970 instead of a 960. My video editing rig has a 970 and you'll want more than the 2gb of vram that the 960 has.

[TheRandomness]

I'd get rid of one of the hard drives (probably one of the 2tb hdds) and get a 970 instead of a 960. My video editing rig has a 970 and you'll want more than the 2gb of vram that the 960 has.

Would an R9 390 be a viable option (8GB vram FTW!)? Or is it something about nvidia gpu's that make them better for editing and such? 

[-iSynthesis]

Would an R9 390 be a viable option (8GB vram FTW!)? Or is it something about nvidia gpu's that make them better for editing and such? 

If your programs support OpenCL (you'll find a list on the internet) AMD will do fantastic. 

[fluffy_ninja]

Would an R9 390 be a viable option (8GB vram FTW!)? Or is it something about nvidia gpu's that make them better for editing and such? 

Honestly, I've never noticed much of a difference between AMD's and nvidia's same-tier GPUs. I actually borrowed a friend's 390 about a week ago and tried it in my rig and the graphics benchmarks were pretty much identical; depending on the test sometimes one card did marginally better then the other but that's about it.