Building PC for Video Editing

Thinking of building my own computer as an economic way to get a faster computer than my Macbook I'm currently using. Workflow is super slow on this laptop and a powerful desktop would solve this problem. I don't want to buy a $2500 Mac because I like the idea of being able to muck around with the guts. Looking to build something from around the 750-1000 range.

I'm sure a lot of you have experience building a computer. I'm just now learning all the parts. I'm going to be doing casual gaming but mainly building it for video editing. 

For video editing, is it required to have both a powerful GPU and CPU? Would just a good CPU suffice? I have access to an entry level graphics card and I'm wondering if that will suffice.

 Again, I'm still very new to this. Tips and information welcome.

http://www.logicalincrements.com/articles/videoediting

also:

http://www.logicalincrements.com/

http://pcpartpicker.com/

https://wiki.installgentoo.com/index.php/Build_a_PC

also the technology (/g/) board on 4chan is surprisingly friendly so go to their PC building threads and ask for feedback and any doubts you have

basically find out if the software you wanna use for editing actually uses GPU to render stuff. It's definitely the future for anything graphical, but many softwares still do everything on the CPU.

build an alienware

Thanks guys. Pretty sure I'll be able to get a free download of Windows 10 through my school so that should knock $100 off

To be honest any machine within that price range will be fine (though you might possibly experience some stuttering *if* you plan to edit in 4k). Premiere will benefit from a gpu with cuda support (lots of nvidia cards have it) most notably with reducing export times. Though as I mention, you should really be OK with any machine 'round that price.

So i've run into a little standstill. I'm jumping between two processors, the cheaper i5 6500, 3.2 Ghz or the i7 6700 3.4 Ghz. They both have 4 cores and the later is about 100 dollars more. I'm not planning to overclock but the i7 can utilize hyper threading with 8 threads and the i5 cannot. 

Do you guys know if Adobe Premiere greatly utilizes hyper threading and is it worth it? I can't find a solid answer online. Seems like everyone overlocks the 6700 but I'm already starting to get out of my price range and the "price of admission" to overclock is an addition 50-100 with all the necessary components. 

I believe Premiere places heavy loads on both CPU and GPU. Hyperthreading will almost certainly be beneficial. i5 chips are nice but i'd wager the difference between the two in price accurately reflects their performance.

when comparing the i5 to the i7, the i7 always seemed to be best for video editing/rendering. as for gaming, the difference was negligible (for now, at least)..but it seemed like going w/ one of the i7's seemed best for video stuff. 

this is one of the comparison videos i watched. try to ignore the awful music:

The i7 is a much stronger chip for CPU bound workloads (which Premiere definitely is). Hyperthreading (which i5s do not have) will make a significant difference too.

I see a growing trend in software to increase performance by distributing workload in parallel (like the graphics/compute API Vulkan, which will replace DirectX and OpenGL in time). Gaming performance should greatly increase once this becomes commonplace.

I think the i7 is a better chip to consider as it may stay relevant for longer. It's only a matter of time before Intel starts dropping new architecture. It's much more difficult to increase clock rates without running into thermal problems and so we will likely see quad-core, hexa-core, and octa-core chips everywhere in the future. A good example of what's coming is something like Intel's extreme series. They offer a 10 core hyperthreaded (20 virtual cores, essentially) monster.

For a gamer this is rather useless at the moment, but Vulkan and similar solutions will no doubt change the game entirely.

probably wanna go socket 2011-v3 if you want to be able to upgrade the machine to handle higher workloads. 2011v3 can hold up to like 128gb of RAM and is designed to handle those types of processing better than the other most recent socket. think it's 1150 or 1155. can't remember off the top of my head. Try to get a reasonably high speed RAM too. It should help.

2nded on the SSD + HDD Storage. currently running a 500 gb ssd for my OS, 1TB SSD storage for games and 7TB HDD of storage for everything else. works well for storing FLACs.

I prefer cooler master cases generally as they have a wide variety of cases with handles on them. Makes it very easy to move them comfortably when it's necessary.

http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=9SIA6ZP4XJ8352

https://www.amazon.com/Cooler-Master-Cosmos-SE-COS-5000-KWN1/dp/B00HZ4L50S/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1482596532&sr=8-1&keywords=cooler+master+se

Good, I think I'll go with the i7 6700K. If I'm not planning to overclock, can i get away with slapping a stock CPU cooler onto it? 

Unless something's changed, I think Intel provides a stock cooler with their CPUs. Might want to check though.

The stock cooler tends to do just fine. I've used one on my i7 3770k for ages and it never has thermal problems.

  On 12/25/2016 at 3:11 AM, Danny O Flannagin said:

Good, I think I'll go with the i7 6700K. If I'm not planning to overclock, can i get away with slapping a stock CPU cooler onto it?

If you buy the boxed version rather than an OEM version it will come with a cooler.

I prefer quiet options though - Zalman coolers have always served me well.

  On 12/25/2016 at 4:58 PM, Grain Bastard said:

 

  On 12/25/2016 at 3:11 AM, Danny O Flannagin said:

Good, I think I'll go with the i7 6700K. If I'm not planning to overclock, can i get away with slapping a stock CPU cooler onto it?

If you buy the boxed version rather than an OEM version it will come with a cooler.

 

I prefer quiet options though - Zalman coolers have always served me well.

 

Went with the K version because the base frequency is .5 ghz faster, getting a stock cooler from a friend

How to optimize for After Effects, it could be useful.

Get one with a screen, very important.

Plus it's suggested to use one that's currently not on fire as well