Low Budget Editing PC

[Schakal_No1]

Hi,

 

a few friends of mine want to buy a new PC for editing with Adobe Premiere Pro. They do have an ultra tight budget of 800-900$ which makes things for me pretty complicated (espacially for this use case).

Essentials:

- 250GB SSD (~80$)

- 2TB (~70$)

- Case (~60$)

- 8 GB RAM (~50$)

- Power Supply (~50$)

- Motherboard (~100$)

 

So the budget for cpu / gpu is around 400-500$.

 

My question is:

Should I just get with no GPU or an ultra cheap GPU and get the best possible Intel CPU (e.g. 6700k) or invest in a gpu like gtx960 and only have the money for an i5 CPU?

 

(I know, a 5820 would be great but 5820 + 2011-3 motherboard would just not be within the budget)

[Ihaveswag]

i5 4690k+gtx 960

[Starelementpoke]

The obvious answer is a 1231v3 with a 380 or similar Nvidia card.

[PlayStation 2]

$800 ain't bad for this budget.

PCPartPicker part list / Price breakdown by merchant

CPU: Intel Xeon E3-1231 V3 3.4GHz Quad-Core Processor  ($232.99 @ SuperBiiz)
Motherboard: MSI H81M-P33 Micro ATX LGA1150 Motherboard  ($42.89 @ OutletPC)
Memory: Crucial 8GB (1 x 8GB) DDR3-1600 Memory  ($35.99 @ Amazon)
Storage: OCZ Trion 100 240GB 2.5" Solid State Drive  ($59.99 @ Amazon)
Storage: Western Digital WD Green 2TB 3.5" 5400RPM Internal Hard Drive  ($74.98 @ OutletPC)
Video Card: Sapphire Radeon R9 290 4GB Video Card  ($222.98 @ Newegg)
Case: NZXT S340 (Black) ATX Mid Tower Case  ($55.99 @ Newegg)
Power Supply: EVGA SuperNOVA GS 550W 80+ Gold Certified Fully-Modular ATX Power Supply  ($69.99 @ NCIX US)
Total: $795.80
Prices include shipping, taxes, and discounts when available
Generated by PCPartPicker 2015-11-13 15:23 EST-0500

[Starelementpoke]

$800 ain't bad for this budget.

PCPartPicker part list / Price breakdown by merchant

CPU: Intel Xeon E3-1231 V3 3.4GHz Quad-Core Processor  ($232.99 @ SuperBiiz)

Motherboard: MSI H81M-P33 Micro ATX LGA1150 Motherboard  ($42.89 @ OutletPC)

Memory: Crucial 8GB (1 x 8GB) DDR3-1600 Memory  ($35.99 @ Amazon)

Storage: OCZ Trion 100 240GB 2.5" Solid State Drive  ($59.99 @ Amazon)

Storage: Western Digital WD Green 2TB 3.5" 5400RPM Internal Hard Drive  ($74.98 @ OutletPC)

Video Card: Sapphire Radeon R9 290 4GB Video Card  ($222.98 @ Newegg)

Case: NZXT S340 (Black) ATX Mid Tower Case  ($55.99 @ Newegg)

Power Supply: EVGA SuperNOVA GS 550W 80+ Gold Certified Fully-Modular ATX Power Supply  ($69.99 @ NCIX US)

Total: $795.80

Prices include shipping, taxes, and discounts when available

Generated by PCPartPicker 2015-11-13 15:23 EST-0500

This. If you need a nivdia card, just switch the gpu out for a similar priced one.

[Schakal_No1]

What is the reason for the xeon 1231 instead of the i5? The i5 would be overclockable

[PlayStation 2]

What is the reason for the xeon 1231 instead of the i5? The i5 would be overclockable

But the Xeon has more threads. With Premier, more cores/threads = better

[Schakal_No1]

But the Xeon has more threads. With Premier, more cores/threads = better

ah ok thx, I always thought they had no hyperthreading, should have known better.