Editing WorkPC

[JeyTee84]

Building a PC for one of my friends.

It'll be used on a regular basis, for things like 4K video editing. No gaming planed. Frequent data backups go to external HDD-s

 

Here's the planned setup:
http://pcpartpicker.com/p/N36HwP

What do you think about it?

What's good, what should I change?

What are the thing's I should pay attention to when building a video editing PC?

 

Thanks for all the help and comments!

 

 

[Starelementpoke]

6 minutes ago, JeyTee84 said:

Building a PC for one of my friends.

It'll be used on a regular basis, for things like 4K video editing. No gaming planed. Frequent data backups go to external HDD-s

 

Here's the planned setup:
http://pcpartpicker.com/p/N36HwP

What do you think about it?

What's good, what should I change?

What are the thing's I should pay attention to when building a video editing PC?

 

Thanks for all the help and comments!

 

 

Budget?

[JeyTee84]

well... lower is better  but it can go up if necessary

[Marinatall_Ironside]

Here's an excellent 4K video editing rig that is much faster.

PCPartPicker part list / Price breakdown by merchant

CPU: Intel Core i7-5820K 3.3GHz 6-Core Processor  ($343.98 @ Micro Center) 
CPU Cooler: be quiet! Dark Rock 3 67.8 CFM Fluid Dynamic Bearing CPU Cooler  ($80.51 @ Newegg) 
Motherboard: Asus SABERTOOTH X99 ATX LGA2011-3 Motherboard  ($333.23 @ Amazon) 
Memory: Corsair Vengeance LPX 32GB (4 x 8GB) DDR4-2133 Memory  ($188.11 @ Newegg) 
Storage: Samsung 850 EVO-Series 250GB 2.5" Solid State Drive  ($81.68 @ Amazon) 
Storage: Samsung 850 EVO-Series 250GB 2.5" Solid State Drive  ($81.68 @ Amazon) 
Storage: Samsung 950 PRO 256GB M.2-2280 Solid State Drive  ($182.73 @ Micro Center) 
Storage: Western Digital BLACK SERIES 4TB 3.5" 7200RPM Internal Hard Drive  ($211.76 @ Newegg) 
Storage: Western Digital BLACK SERIES 4TB 3.5" 7200RPM Internal Hard Drive  ($211.76 @ Newegg) 
Storage: Western Digital BLACK SERIES 4TB 3.5" 7200RPM Internal Hard Drive  ($211.76 @ Newegg) 
Storage: Western Digital BLACK SERIES 4TB 3.5" 7200RPM Internal Hard Drive  ($211.76 @ Newegg) 
Video Card: EVGA GeForce GTX 980 Ti 6GB Video Card  ($698.73 @ NCIX US) 
Case: BitFenix Pandora ATX ATX Mid Tower Case  ($160.17 @ Amazon) 
Power Supply: SeaSonic Platinum 860W 80+ Platinum Certified Fully-Modular ATX Power Supply  ($119.73 @ Newegg) 
Operating System: Microsoft Windows 10 Pro Full - USB (32/64-bit)  ($278.40 @ NCIX US) 
Total: $3395.99
Prices include shipping, taxes, and discounts when available
Generated by PCPartPicker 2016-02-05 16:31 EST-0500

 

The four 4TB Black drives are configured in RAID 10 for fast and safe storage, while the two 850 EVO 250GB drives are configured in RAID 0 for hyper-fast storage for active projects and scratch disks. The 950 PRO is the system drive (OS and application suite). Remember this is a guideline you should follow.

 

You would want a 6-core CPU and a powerful GPU (if your friend uses CineForm). That's why I chose the 5820K and the 980 Ti for that reason alone.

 

Disclaimer: If your friend lives in California, there's currently a 7.5% tax rate for all sales. The total you see here is with the taxes as follows

 

Base Total: $3,187.76 USD

Promo Discounts: -$10.00 USD

Mail-in Rebates: -$20.00 USD

Tax: $238.23 USD

Total: $3,395.99 USD

Source: PCPartPicker system build.

[HKZeroFive]

If you don't mind spending a bit more, I'd say the hexacore 5820K would be best suited for workstation applications:

 

PCPartPicker part list / Price breakdown by merchant

CPU: Intel Core i7-5820K 3.3GHz 6-Core Processor  ($374.99 @ SuperBiiz) 
CPU Cooler: be quiet! PURE ROCK 51.4 CFM Sleeve Bearing CPU Cooler  ($34.90 @ Newegg) 
Motherboard: Gigabyte GA-X99-SLI ATX LGA2011-3 Motherboard  ($173.98 @ Newegg) 
Memory: Kingston HyperX Fury Black 16GB (2 x 8GB) DDR4-2133 Memory  ($80.99 @ Newegg) 
Storage: Samsung 850 EVO-Series 250GB 2.5" Solid State Drive  ($75.99 @ Amazon) 
Storage: Western Digital BLACK SERIES 1TB 3.5" 7200RPM Internal Hard Drive  ($73.89 @ OutletPC) 
Video Card: EVGA GeForce GTX 950 2GB Superclocked Video Card  ($129.99 @ Newegg) 
Case: Fractal Design Define S ATX Mid Tower Case  ($79.99 @ NCIX US) 
Power Supply: EVGA SuperNOVA G2 650W 80+ Gold Certified Fully-Modular ATX Power Supply  ($69.99 @ Newegg) 
Total: $1094.71
Prices include shipping, taxes, and discounts when available
Generated by PCPartPicker 2016-02-05 16:32 EST-0500

[vanished]

Part of me says use use the iGPU and save some money if no gaming planned, but some programs can actually take advantage of the GPU and are much faster and more powerful if you get a good one - one the right kind, that is.

 

Oh, and I would be tempted by something like a 5930k or 5960x since the programs will probably use it (unlike games these days)

And also may as well go 32 GB of RAM.  It's really nice when editing stuff

[JeyTee84]

2 hours ago, JurunceNK said:

Here's an excellent 4K video editing rig that is much faster.

It is excelent indeed, but what does this have to do with my setup? It's almost 3 times more expensive than mine. And why would he need a 980Ti for editing? The gpu is more op than the cpu. It's more like a gaming, nas kind of pc than an editing pc. I don't get how could that be helpfull.

 

2 hours ago, HKZeroFive said:

the hexacore 5820K

The 5820K and the 6700K are almost the same price (6700K is a bit cheaper for me) and they have 2000 difference in benchmark points. The question is that shouldn't I sacrefice that little more performance for the skylake z170 motherboard? or the  LGA2011-3 mobo and cpu are more advantageous for editing? isn't the skylake mobo more "futureproof"?

 

2 hours ago, Ryan_Vickers said:

use the iGPU and save some money

I was thinking about this too, and ended up here as well Also if he ever decides to do some 3d rendering the dedicated gpu comes in handy. Is that 32Gb ram really necessary? Also, do you think he'll ever need 64Gb (cus than i'd go with a 2x16 setup). How about the frequency? Do anyone know if that matters or not when editing?

[vanished]

11 minutes ago, JeyTee84 said:

I was thinking about this too, and ended up here as well Also if he ever decides to do some 3d rendering the dedicated gpu comes in handy. Is that 32Gb ram really necessary? Also, do you think he'll ever need 64Gb (cus than i'd go with a 2x16 setup). How about the frequency? Do anyone know if that matters or not when editing?

Well, decide if you are going X99 or X170 before deciding RAM because there are twice as many slots in X99

All I know is I can use 32 GB doing Photoshop, so never mind video editing.  I'm not sure what software you'd be using, but After Effects can eat literally any amount of RAM.  16 would be enough probably, but it's nice never having to worry about it, and for bigger projects it could make a difference.

[brob]

3 hours ago, JeyTee84 said:

well... lower is better  but it can go up if necessary

Editing 4K video really needs more memory and ideally an X99 cpu. Unfortunately both are not really possible at $1K. I would also suggest a more powerful gpu as many packages can use the gpu to accelerate editing functions and rendering.

 

PCPartPicker part list / Price breakdown by merchant

CPU: Intel Xeon E3-1230 V5 3.4GHz Quad-Core Processor  ($247.99 @ SuperBiiz)
Motherboard: Gigabyte GA-X150M-PLUS WS Micro ATX LGA1151 Motherboard  ($166.97 @ Newegg)
Memory: G.Skill Ripjaws V Series 32GB (2 x 16GB) DDR4-2400 Memory  ($179.99 @ Newegg)
Storage: Samsung 850 EVO-Series 250GB 2.5" Solid State Drive  ($84.89 @ OutletPC)
Storage: Western Digital Caviar Blue 1TB 3.5" 7200RPM Internal Hard Drive  ($49.89 @ OutletPC)
Video Card: XFX Radeon R9 380 4GB Double Dissipation Video Card  ($189.99 @ Newegg)
Case: Corsair Carbide Series 88R MicroATX Mid Tower Case  ($44.99 @ Micro Center)
Power Supply: SeaSonic S12II 520W 80+ Bronze Certified ATX Power Supply  ($55.99 @ SuperBiiz)
Total: $1020.70
Generated by PCPartPicker 2016-02-05 20:07 EST-0500

[HKZeroFive]

1 hour ago, JeyTee84 said:

The 5820K and the 6700K are almost the same price (6700K is a bit cheaper for me) and they have 2000 difference in benchmark points. The question is that shouldn't I sacrefice that little more performance for the skylake z170 motherboard? or the  LGA2011-3 mobo and cpu are more advantageous for editing? isn't the skylake mobo more "futureproof"?

The 5820K is going to be much better than the 6700K in editing, especially in 4K. To put it simply, those two extra cores are going to edit videos much faster than that quad core 6700K. If your friend is willing to spend a bit more (and let's face it, it's not too much to ask for), I'd opt for the 5820K.

 

Now, I dare say that the 5820K and the X99 is more "futureproof" (personally I think the term "future proofing" shouldn't exist with the introduction of more CPUs each year), since the upcoming Broadwell-E family will be based on the X99 platform and those six cores are going to last for a long time in comparison to just four, especially in workstation applications.

[Marinatall_Ironside]

1 hour ago, JeyTee84 said:

It is excelent indeed, but what does this have to do with my setup? It's almost 3 times more expensive than mine. And why would he need a 980Ti for editing? The gpu is more op than the cpu. It's more like a gaming, nas kind of pc than an editing pc. I don't get how could that be helpfull.

 

The reason why I stuck a 980 Ti in the build I provided is for CineForm (A GPU-accelerated codec). And 8TB of RAID 10 mass storage is for storing the footage when he's not working on them. the 500GB of RAID 0 is for scratch disks and for active projects (make a partition large enough for the 4K project and the rest is for scratch disks). Video editors works on these kinds of machines since they are powerful enough for working on 4K footage. When you're scrubbing through a timeline, if you don't have a powerful-enough of a system, you will notice that it will start to get sluggish.

 

And 4K footage is really, really big. So 8TB will be incredibly helpful. But if your friends stores the 4K footage on a NAS, that's perfectly fine. You can choose to omit that storage or get two 4TB drives and run those in RAID 1 for storage.

 

If I was doing video editing, I will actually build this system. It will last me. But since I do 3ds Max, I don't need any scratch disks or 8TB of mass storage, but for what I want to do, a Titan X will really help me out a lot since 3D programs like 3ds Max, Maya, Cinema 4D, and AutoCAD can benefit from having more VRAM and if you don't have enough VRAM, issues can arise (such as textures not loading, or worse, the file won't open because of insufficient VRAM). And yes, I do intend to get the 6700K for my workstation/gaming hybrid machine which you can follow in my signature. Since the Titan X is so powerful already, I don't need to rely on the CPU to render and I plan on getting another Titan X to boost the rendering speeds even more (I use Nvidia Iray for rendering, which is GPU-accelerated)