Editing PC

[Xreo]

Hey all. I started a youtube channel and am looking for a budget editing rig. I've got a PC for gaming, but sadly, it has a lot of issues when it comes to editing and rendering, like humongous rendering times, since PC is based on AMD platform. Could ya'll help me build a rig just for editing? The cheaper the better, as I said, it will be used only for editing, nothing else, no need for fancy lights or something. Need only the rig, no peripherals or displays. If that helps, I live in Lithuania. 

Max price limit would be around 500 euros I guess, so would be cool to get the best editing rig for that money.

Thanks in advance for help.

[Zyndo]

I would say just take the 500 euros you want to build a new PC with and just get a CPU/mobo/RAM for your gaming rig. Could probably get an I7 on that budget, rather than having to settle for less if you had to build an entire system. not to mention then your games would benefit as well.

[Zyndo]

1 minute ago, EnemySp0tt3d said:

I wouldn't get an i7 on that budget.

you would get more? less? xeon?

[Matu20]

4 minutes ago, Zyndo said:

you would get more? less? xeon?

i3 and the best GPU you can buy. Best for that budget.

[Zyndo]

Just now, Matu20 said:

i3 and the best GPU you can buy. Best for that budget.

You're thinking like a gamer. He wants an editing rig. He shouldn't even get a GPU in that price range if hes only editing.

[Matu20]

Just now, Zyndo said:

You're thinking like a gamer. He wants an editing rig. He shouldn't even get a GPU in that price range if hes only editing.

You seem to think that gaming PCs can't edit.

[brob]

What editing software is being used?

[Zyndo]

32 minutes ago, Xreo said:

Hey all. I started a youtube channel and am looking for a budget editing rig. I've got a PC for gaming, but sadly, it has a lot of issues when it comes to editing and rendering, like humongous rendering times, since PC is based on AMD platform. Could ya'll help me build a rig just for editing? The cheaper the better, as I said, it will be used only for editing, nothing else, no need for fancy lights or something. Need only the rig, no peripherals or displays. If that helps, I live in Lithuania. 

Max price limit would be around 500 euros I guess, so would be cool to get the best editing rig for that money.

Thanks in advance for help.

Look at your prices online... I like to use PCpartpicker to get an idea of what prices are going to be like, but they don't have a filter for your country. Closest i could get was Germany euros. Assuming your country has somewhat similar prices on electronics to them then at 500 bucks, if you upgrade your gaming rig rather than building a new one, you can get an i7 a decent H170 board with good audio, connectivity, features, expandibility, etc (there are certainly cheaper motherboards if you need to save money) and 16GB of RAM. Also if you have a good air cooling already in your rig, you could always get a 6700k, and a cheap Z170 board for about 500 EUR and get even more performance out if your machine.

 

http://de.pcpartpicker.com/list/pcXx3C

 

If you really need another full PC, then here is something you could do:

http://de.pcpartpicker.com/list/fzRC6X

 

This PC was made with the absolute bare minimum in every area (except the CPU). everything selected was about the cheapest possible thing on the list. You needn't buy these exact parts, as things may be priced a bit differently in your country, but this should give you a good idea of what you can expect out of 500 EUR for a new system. and this doesn't include your OS.

 

14 minutes ago, Matu20 said:

You seem to think that gaming PCs can't edit.

Its not that they cant, its that if you have 500 bucks to spend on a computer for editing, then you shouldn't get a GPU. Very few editing programs have good GPU compute support. And those that do, often don't scale well if you get a budget GPU. If you just get a stronger CPU, it will perform pretty much the same in those GPU compute areas as a weak GPU will. Not only that, but It would make no sense whatsoever to spend the money on a GPU when your computer is simply not going to use it pretty much at all. Especially when it means you're going to be left with an i3 at BEST by going with a GPU. i3's don't come with a good amount of horsepower for editing. He would basically have a second computer equally as weak as his current computer which he says isn't good enough to edit on. SOME gaming PCs like mine, is a 6700k and 980ti. You could DEFINITELY edit on that. But its not a 500 dollar PC.

 

I never said gaming PC's can't edit. I said you're thinking like a gamer. He doesn't need a gaming pc. he needs an editing pc. in the 500 dollar price range, the suggested parts and components are likely going to be VASTLY different.

[Matu20]

1 minute ago, Zyndo said:

Look at your prices online... I like to use PCpartpicker to get an idea of what prices are going to be like, but they don't have a filter for your country. Closest i could get was Germany euros. Assuming your country has somewhat similar prices on electronics to them then at 500 bucks, if you upgrade your gaming rig rather than building a new one, you can get an i7 a decent H170 board with good audio, connectivity, features, expandibility, etc (there are certainly cheaper motherboards if you need to save money) and 16GB of RAM.

 

http://de.pcpartpicker.com/list/pcXx3C

 

If you really need another full PC, then here is something you could do:

http://de.pcpartpicker.com/list/fzRC6X

 

This PC was made with the absolute bare minimum in every area (except the CPU). everything selected was about the cheapest possible thing on the list. You needn't buy these exact parts, as things may be priced a bit differently in your country, but this should give you a good idea of what you can expect out of 500 EUR for a new system. and this doesn't include your OS.

 

Its not that they cant, its that if you have 500 bucks to spend on a computer for editing, then you shouldn't get a GPU. Very few editing programs have good GPU compute support. And those that do, often don't scale well if you get a budget GPU. If you just get a stronger CPU, it will perform pretty much the same in those GPU compute areas as a weak GPU will. Not only that, but It would make no sense whatsoever to spend the money on a GPU when your computer is simply not going to use it pretty much at all. Especially when it means you're going to be left with an i3 at BEST by going with a GPU. i3's don't come with a good amount of horsepower for editing. He would basically have a second computer equally as weak as his current computer which he says isn't good enough to edit on. SOME gaming PCs like mine, is a 6700k and 980ti. You could DEFINITELY edit on that. But its not a 500 dollar PC.

 

I never said gaming PC's can't edit. I said you're thinking like a gamer. He doesn't need a gaming pc. he needs an editing pc. in the 500 dollar price range, the suggested parts and components are likely going to be VASTLY different.

Never read the whole text through. Did not see that he needed one for specifically rendering.

 

In that, why do you need one just for rendering?

[Matu20]

3 minutes ago, EnemySp0tt3d said:

Because in the post he said that he already had a gaming pc.............. legit in the 3rd sentence lol

Doesn't answer my question. Why not upgrade the gaming PC with that money. Much more efficient.

[Xreo]

I cant really use my current gaming PC for editing because it constatly causes issues. Software like Premiere Pro and After Effects takes so much time to render anything its basically pointless to even try, Sony Vegas same story, CyberLink PowerDirector constantly crashes and hangs. Aside from those, I dont really use any other editing software, but I suspect same stuff would happen with any other. There's also an issue with the GPU that I got, R9 280x. For some unknown reason stuff like OpenGL hardware acceleration for software doesnt work, I suspect crappy drivers AMD makes. For gods sake, even that Crimson Edition software they make doesnt work properly, auto crash on start.Last reason: I plan to get entirely new rig sometime soon, because my current one isn't exactly upgradable, without completely changing the platform that is. Makes no point for me to get something entirely new, like new cpu for gaming and stuff, when in like 1 year time I'll be switching system completely, cpu n all.

[Xreo]

Theoretically, I could go with some CPU focused build, with best cpu possible for like 300 bucks + mobo + ram, I guess that would work. But that's just the theory, so for me that doesn't exactly cut it. I liked the idea about i7-6700 tho, I'm just not sure if it's all that worth getting an i7. Wouldn't i5 perform somewhat similar to an i7 in editing for lower price? I mean, from my kinda limited understanding, wouldn't it be better to get i5 and something like 32gb ram?