Hardworking Handbrake Mini-ITX PC

[SilkyJohnston]

This will be my very first PC that I'm building, with some help and perhaps during the last week of March Madness, it may come together. The build's primarily a Handbrake factory, pumping out videos and simple video-editing for portable devices, like a PSP or an ITouch 2015. Budget's at $850.

 

http://pcpartpicker.com/p/29cqD3

 

1. With the Xeon, Asus H97I and 16gb RAM cards, will this be able to speed Handbrake's conversion rates to 200 fps, or less? (The 200 fps is based on Handbrake usage in a Dell Optiplex 7440 AIO with a I7 vpro core)

2. Do I need radiators for this build? 

3. Should the option come around, can this build be upgraded to a gaming rig with appropriate parts to be able to play 2015-2016 pc games (Witcher III, Fallout 4, The Division) at minimum?

 

Feel free to take apart or improve. Thanks.

[astranger200]

1. dont know

2. its a zeon so now. get a t4 or something

3. yes, very much yes

[HKZeroFive]

Trash SSD as it's a bait and switch product from Kingston. I recommend the Sandisk SSD Plus 120GB instead.

 

Where's the GPU?

 

To answer your questions; likely, probably not and yes.

[SilkyJohnston]

2 minutes ago, HKZeroFive said:

Trash SSD as it's a bait and switch product from Kingston. I recommend the Sandisk SSD Plus 120GB instead.

 

Where's the GPU?

 

To answer your questions; likely, probably not and yes.

Noted on SSD. No idea on what GPU to use, I may make a decision based on DOOM 2016's official system requirements.

[Omon_Ra]

1.) Depends on the source and final formats (file and resolution) for the videos. If it's low bitrate H.264, your CPU should be able to keep up. It will also help a little bit if you have the export folder on an SSD.

 

2.) Not really, unless you want to watercool it just because.

 

3.) Yes. Just a decent GPU (which you're going to need anyways, Xeon's don't have integrated graphics) and you'll be set. Don't bother with recommended specs, if you're concerned with performance specifically for Doom, wait for the benchmarks to come out for it and buy based on those. Or just get a 970/390x and be done with it.

[Megazero]

19 minutes ago, HKZeroFive said:

Trash SSD as it's a bait and switch product from Kingston. I recommend the Sandisk SSD Plus 120GB instead.

 

Where's the GPU?

 

To answer your questions; likely, probably not and yes.

To be fair though I'm currently use one as bootdrive in my desktop, and i has been working perfectly well for me for the pass 3 years or so, so I never understand all the hate for it Granted it may not have the highest read/write speed out of all SSD, but my Windows 10 still boot around 10 seconds, and it's not like you can copy anything big that can take advantage of the speed on it anyway since it's only 120GB.

[SilkyJohnston]

28 minutes ago, powderbanks said:

Just a decent GPU (which you're going to need anyways, Xeon's don't have integrated graphics) and you'll be set.

Fudge on the lack of integrated graphics. I intended to build the PC during March without the gpu and then save up for a GTX 970. 

 

I guess I can wait until May, or when Bethesda gets their act together and release the system requirements at an early date.

[TheRandomness]

1 hour ago, SilkyJohnston said:

Fudge on the lack of integrated graphics. I intended to build the PC during March without the gpu and then save up for a GTX 970. 

 

I guess I can wait until May, or when Bethesda gets their act together and release the system requirements at an early date.

Just get an R9 390, 8GB VRAM and the cost will be fine for basically all future games for the next 4~ years. 

[Megazero]

1 hour ago, SilkyJohnston said:

Fudge on the lack of integrated graphics. I intended to build the PC during March without the gpu and then save up for a GTX 970. 

 

I guess I can wait until May, or when Bethesda gets their act together and release the system requirements at an early date.

May I ask why you choose a Xeon? This is a default build I have for the price range of ~1000$ with a GTX 970 and without Windows, so subtract it you could get a i5 with integrated GPU easily at your budget. 

 

PCPartPicker part list / Price breakdown by merchant

CPU: Intel Core i5-6600K 3.5GHz Quad-Core Processor  ($249.99 @ Newegg) 
CPU Cooler: Cooler Master Hyper 212 EVO 82.9 CFM Sleeve Bearing CPU Cooler  ($24.88 @ OutletPC) 
Motherboard: MSI Z170A PC MATE ATX LGA1151 Motherboard  ($99.10 @ Amazon) 
Memory: Kingston HyperX Fury Black 16GB (2 x 8GB) DDR4-2133 Memory  ($69.99 @ Amazon) 
Storage: Kingston SSDNow V300 Series 120GB 2.5" Solid State Drive  ($39.99 @ Newegg) 
Storage: Seagate Barracuda 1TB 3.5" 7200RPM Internal Hard Drive  ($46.89 @ OutletPC) 
Video Card: MSI GeForce GTX 970 4GB Twin Frozr V Video Card  ($324.99 @ B&H) 
Case: Cooler Master Elite 431 Plus (Black) ATX Mid Tower Case  ($50.99 @ SuperBiiz) 
Power Supply: EVGA SuperNOVA NEX 750W 80+ Bronze Certified Semi-Modular ATX Power Supply  ($51.98 @ Newegg) 
Total: $958.80
Prices include shipping, taxes, and discounts when available
Generated by PCPartPicker 2016-02-11 04:35 EST-0500

[Megazero]

Just now, Megazero said:

May I ask why you choose a Xeon? This is a default build I have for the price range of ~1000$ with a GTX 970 and without Windows, so subtract it you could get a i5 with integrated GPU easily at your budget. The video editing part may be a bit slower since i5 dont have hyperthreading, but for quick simple video editing work it will still be ok right?

 

PCPartPicker part list / Price breakdown by merchant

CPU: Intel Core i5-6600K 3.5GHz Quad-Core Processor  ($249.99 @ Newegg) 
CPU Cooler: Cooler Master Hyper 212 EVO 82.9 CFM Sleeve Bearing CPU Cooler  ($24.88 @ OutletPC) 
Motherboard: MSI Z170A PC MATE ATX LGA1151 Motherboard  ($99.10 @ Amazon) 
Memory: Kingston HyperX Fury Black 16GB (2 x 8GB) DDR4-2133 Memory  ($69.99 @ Amazon) 
Storage: Kingston SSDNow V300 Series 120GB 2.5" Solid State Drive  ($39.99 @ Newegg) 
Storage: Seagate Barracuda 1TB 3.5" 7200RPM Internal Hard Drive  ($46.89 @ OutletPC) 
Video Card: MSI GeForce GTX 970 4GB Twin Frozr V Video Card  ($324.99 @ B&H) 
Case: Cooler Master Elite 431 Plus (Black) ATX Mid Tower Case  ($50.99 @ SuperBiiz) 
Power Supply: EVGA SuperNOVA NEX 750W 80+ Bronze Certified Semi-Modular ATX Power Supply  ($51.98 @ Newegg) 
Total: $958.80
Prices include shipping, taxes, and discounts when available
Generated by PCPartPicker 2016-02-11 04:35 EST-0500

 

[SilkyJohnston]

6 hours ago, Megazero said:

May I ask why you choose a Xeon?

 

The video editing part may be a bit slower since i5 dont have hyperthreading, but for quick simple video editing work it will still be ok right?

According to research, reviews and having no consideration to overclock a computer, the Xeon's a nice alternative to an I5-K chip I was eyeing a while back. I want my computer build to able to perform similarly and/or better to that Optiplex 7440 AIO+I7 vpro in Handbrake usage. The same goes with video editing.

[brob]

I believe this build will do a slightly better job than the OP system. The psu has sufficient capacity to easily handle a GTX 980 Ti.

 

PCPartPicker part list / Price breakdown by merchant

CPU: Intel Core i7-6700 3.4GHz Quad-Core Processor  ($329.99 @ SuperBiiz)
Motherboard: ASRock H110M-ITX/ac Mini ITX LGA1151 Motherboard  ($69.98 @ Newegg)
Memory: Corsair Vengeance LPX 16GB (2 x 8GB) DDR4-2400 Memory  ($74.99 @ Amazon)
Storage: Crucial BX200 240GB 2.5" Solid State Drive  ($63.99 @ SuperBiiz)
Storage: Western Digital Caviar Blue 1TB 3.5" 7200RPM Internal Hard Drive  ($49.89 @ OutletPC)
Case: Cooler Master Elite 130 Mini ITX Tower Case  ($42.99 @ Micro Center)
Power Supply: SeaSonic G 550W 80+ Gold Certified Semi-Modular ATX Power Supply  ($78.99 @ SuperBiiz)
Operating System: Microsoft Windows 10 Home OEM (64-bit)  ($88.19 @ Amazon)
Total: $799.01
Generated by PCPartPicker 2016-02-11 12:21 EST-0500

[SilkyJohnston]

brob, awesome build.

 

That said, I'll just go slowly on buying the parts. I'll go for the case and psu this month, and then the hard drive and sdd next month. Perhaps at April or maybe at the GDC 2016 in March, I'll get the mobo, CPU and ram cards depending on what DOOM can run it.