New Build for Video Editing and Gaming

[yas1320]

Hi Guys

 

Need your help!

 

I'm looking to upgrade my motherboard, ram and cpu, which i will be using for video editing and gaming(GTA 5 and Far Cry 4 etc).  I will not be overclocking. Motherboard Will need at least 5 sata ports, i have 5 fans on my pc, and would like to go down the DDR4 route. Also, the motherboard will need to be a matx.    I already have a Samsung 250gb 850 Evo ssd and will use my GTX 650gpu for now and then will upgrade this at a later date.

 

My budget is £350.00.

 

Can anyone suggest what motherboard, cpu and ram i should go for.

 

Thanks

 

yas1320

[Starelementpoke]

2 minutes ago, yas1320 said:

Hi Guys

 

Need your help!

 

I'm looking to upgrade my motherboard, ram and cpu, which i will be using for video editing and gaming(GTA 5 and Far Cry 4 etc).  I will not be overclocking.  I already have a Samsung 250gb 850 Evo ssd and will use my GTX 650gpu for now and then will upgrade this at a later date.

 

My budget is £350.00.

 

Can anyone suggest what motherboard, cpu and ram i should go for.

 

Thanks

 

yas1320

What´s your entire build as of now?

[yas1320]

2 minutes ago, Starelementpoke said:

What´s your entire build as of now?

Its about 6 years old.

 

CPU : Intel Pentium E5550

Ram: 4gb

Motherboard: Asrock G31m.S

Powersupply: Frcatal Design 650M

SSD: Samsung Evo 850 250gb

GPU: Asus GTX650

[Jer45]

5 minutes ago, yas1320 said:

Hi Guys

 

Need your help!

 

I'm looking to upgrade my motherboard, ram and cpu, which i will be using for video editing and gaming(GTA 5 and Far Cry 4 etc).  I will not be overclocking.  I already have a Samsung 250gb 850 Evo ssd and will use my GTX 650gpu for now and then will upgrade this at a later date.

 

My budget is £350.00.

 

Can anyone suggest what motherboard, cpu and ram i should go for.

 

Thanks

 

yas1320

http://pcpartpicker.com/p/Z8z4Vn

this should be a good upgrade and if you dont need the cpu cooler i included just buy more ram!

[Starelementpoke]

Just now, yas1320 said:

Its about 6 years old.

 

CPU : Intel Pentium E5550

Ram: 4gb

Motherboard: Asrock G31m.S

Powersupply: Frcatal Design 650M

SSD: Samsung Evo 850 250gb

GPU: Asus GTX650

Is that PSU Integra M or Edison M?

[Jer45]

2 minutes ago, yas1320 said:

Its about 6 years old.

 

CPU : Intel Pentium E5550

Ram: 4gb

Motherboard: Asrock G31m.S

Powersupply: Frcatal Design 650M

SSD: Samsung Evo 850 250gb

GPU: Asus GTX650

http://pcpartpicker.com/p/6LdHVn with 16gb of ram

[yas1320]

Just now, Starelementpoke said:

Is that PSU Integra M or Edison M?

Integra

[Aereldor]

2 minutes ago, Starelementpoke said:

Is that PSU Integra M or Edison M?

They're both alright, even though the Integra M isn't as suitable for high-end builds. So long as we aren't pushing 650W with it, he should be alright.

[yas1320]

thanks for your suggestions guys!

 

Would it be worth it to go for the new generation i5?

[Jer45]

Just now, yas1320 said:

thanks for your suggestions guys!

 

Would it be worth it to go for the new generation i5?

not really I usually wait 1 generation 

[Aereldor]

6 minutes ago, yas1320 said:

GPU: Asus GTX650

You aren't going to be doing a lot of gaming with this GPU, even at 1080p. It's incredibly underpowered, and you probably won't be seeing smooth performance on AAA titles even at the lowest settings. Also, what programs are you going to be using? Adobe Premiere fares better with CUDA cores than stream processors, but Sony Vegas Pro is more suited towards AMD's hardware, oddly enough. 

Granted, at this level, you'd be better off putting as much towards the CPU as you can if video editing is the main purpose of this build. However, I wouldn't recommend keeping the GTX 650 for gaming.

[Starelementpoke]

1 minute ago, yas1320 said:

thanks for your suggestions guys!

 

Would it be worth it to go for the new generation i5?

I´d recommend the 1231v3 if you plan on video editing actually.

PCPartPicker part list: http://uk.pcpartpicker.com/p/XWK3sY
Price breakdown by merchant: http://uk.pcpartpicker.com/p/XWK3sY/by_merchant/

CPU: Intel Xeon E3-1231 V3 3.4GHz Quad-Core Processor  (£222.89 @ Dabs) 
Motherboard: ASRock B85 Anniversary ATX LGA1150 Motherboard  (£53.94 @ Ebuyer) 
Total: £276.83
Prices include shipping, taxes, and discounts when available
Generated by PCPartPicker 2016-04-03 15:45 BST+0100

[yas1320]

1 minute ago, Aereldor said:

You aren't going to be doing a lot of gaming with this GPU, even at 1080p. It's incredibly underpowered, and you probably won't be seeing smooth performance on AAA titles even at the lowest settings. Also, what programs are you going to be using? Adobe Premiere fares better with CUDA cores than stream processors, but Sony Vegas Pro is more suited towards AMD's hardware, oddly enough. 

Granted, at this level, you'd be better off putting as much towards the CPU as you can if video editing is the main purpose of this build. However, I wouldn't recommend keeping the GTX 650 for gaming.

Ill be using premiere.  I will upgrading the GPU at a later date.  Will mainly be using it for video editing at the moment!

[Aereldor]

2 minutes ago, Starelementpoke said:

I´d recommend the 1231v3 if you plan on video editing actually.

PCPartPicker part list: http://uk.pcpartpicker.com/p/XWK3sY
Price breakdown by merchant: http://uk.pcpartpicker.com/p/XWK3sY/by_merchant/

CPU: Intel Xeon E3-1231 V3 3.4GHz Quad-Core Processor  (£222.89 @ Dabs) 
Motherboard: ASRock B85 Anniversary ATX LGA1150 Motherboard  (£53.94 @ Ebuyer) 
Total: £276.83
Prices include shipping, taxes, and discounts when available
Generated by PCPartPicker 2016-04-03 15:45 BST+0100

I second the Xeon, but you're going to need at least 8GB of DDR3 ram- The Pentium E5550 OP has uses DDR2, if I'm not mistaken.

Furthermore, what of mass storage? If he intends to edit video and have a few games installed, 250GB won't be anywhere near enough.

[Aereldor]

5 minutes ago, yas1320 said:

Ill be using premiere.  I will upgrading the GPU at a later date.  Will mainly be using it for video editing at the moment!

PCPartPicker part list / Price breakdown by merchant

CPU: Intel Xeon E3-1231 V3 3.4GHz Quad-Core Processor  (£222.89 @ Dabs) 
Motherboard: Gigabyte GA-B85M-D3H Micro ATX LGA1150 Motherboard  (£53.95 @ More Computers) 
Memory: Crucial 8GB (1 x 8GB) DDR3-1600 Memory  (£23.49 @ Ebuyer) 
Storage: Seagate Barracuda 2TB 3.5" 7200RPM Internal Hard Drive  (£54.98 @ Novatech) 
Total: £355.31
Prices include shipping, taxes, and discounts when available
Generated by PCPartPicker 2016-04-03 15:54 BST+0100

 

You're going to need a lot more mass storage than what your SSD can hold. I can't find cheap motherboards with that many fan headers, so you're better off purchasing a fan hub/controller or piecing one together. I did find one that has three, so you can probably get away with a few splitters. Also, why do you think having 5 fans in your case is a good idea to go with DDR4? It doesn't make any difference.

[yas1320]

4 hours ago, Aereldor said:

PCPartPicker part list / Price breakdown by merchant

CPU: Intel Xeon E3-1231 V3 3.4GHz Quad-Core Processor  (£222.89 @ Dabs) 
Motherboard: Gigabyte GA-B85M-D3H Micro ATX LGA1150 Motherboard  (£53.95 @ More Computers) 
Memory: Crucial 8GB (1 x 8GB) DDR3-1600 Memory  (£23.49 @ Ebuyer) 
Storage: Seagate Barracuda 2TB 3.5" 7200RPM Internal Hard Drive  (£54.98 @ Novatech) 
Total: £355.31
Prices include shipping, taxes, and discounts when available
Generated by PCPartPicker 2016-04-03 15:54 BST+0100

 

You're going to need a lot more mass storage than what your SSD can hold. I can't find cheap motherboards with that many fan headers, so you're better off purchasing a fan hub/controller or piecing one together. I did find one that has three, so you can probably get away with a few splitters. Also, why do you think having 5 fans in your case is a good idea to go with DDR4? It doesn't make any difference.

yes sorry.  forgot to mention I also have 500gb HDD.  I currently have 5 fans in the case i will be using with the new build

[yas1320]

sorry guys.  I forgot to mention the motherboard needs to be a matx form factor.

[Aereldor]

1 hour ago, yas1320 said:

I currently have 5 fans in the case i will be using with the new build

Yes. You already said so, and I already told you to purchase 3-pin/4-pin splitter cables to use all your fans with the 3 PWM system fan ports on the motherboard. However, you probably won't need all five fans, especially not with your efficient hardware. Neither the Xeon E3 1231-V3 or the GTX 750 runs particularly hot.

 

1 hour ago, yas1320 said:

sorry guys.  I forgot to mention the motherboard needs to be a matx form factor.

I did recommend a micro-ATX board.

Also, you didn't forget to mention it- you did mention it. In your first post-

6 hours ago, yas1320 said:

Also, the motherboard will need to be a matx.

If you're trying to restate a point, just say you're restating it.

[yas1320]

49 minutes ago, Aereldor said:

Yes. You already said so, and I already told you to purchase 3-pin/4-pin splitter cables to use all your fans with the 3 PWM system fan ports on the motherboard. However, you probably won't need all five fans, especially not with your efficient hardware. Neither the Xeon E3 1231-V3 or the GTX 750 runs particularly hot.

 

I did recommend a micro-ATX board.

Also, you didn't forget to mention it- you did mention it. In your first post-

If you're trying to restate a point, just say you're restating it.

Thanks for all your help and advice @Aereldor 

[Aereldor]

2 minutes ago, yas1320 said:

Thanks for all your help and advice @Aereldor 

Cheers. Good luck with your editing work. 

Also- if Adobe Premiere has the Intel QuickSync feature that you find in Sony Vegas Pro (using the iGPU to speed up rendering), keep in mind that you won't be able to do so, as the Xeon E3 1231-V3 doesn't come with any integrated graphics, which is why it's so cheap.

[yas1320]

3 minutes ago, Aereldor said:

Cheers. Good luck with your editing work. 

Also- if Adobe Premiere has the Intel QuickSync feature that you find in Sony Vegas Pro (using the iGPU to speed up rendering), keep in mind that you won't be able to do so, as the Xeon E3 1231-V3 doesn't come with any integrated graphics, which is why it's so cheap.

Thanks for that. I'll keep that in mind.