Hello guys. So I'm helping a friend out with his first PC build. His budget is around the $1,500 range. The main purpose of the rig is to game and mild video editing.
http://pcpartpicker.com/list/BPBCLD
Opinions and suggestions? Thanks!
This build from wendel not good option?
http://pcpartpicker.com/list/KnPCLD
I can not recommend Nvidia at the moment. But change as you like.
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For video editing, a Skylake system with an i7 will run circles around it in video editing because Adobe, for whatever reason, has just shafted parallelization on pretty much all of their software. For things that can actually take advantage of that many cores/threads, sure, the 16 core machine will mop the floor with almost everything, but in terms of video editing, that is no longer the case.
ah, even mild video editing like he said?
It will beat the i5, but up against a skylake i7, it would lose by virtue of the higher clockspeed and higher IPC.
It was a stupid, arbitrary decision by adobe.
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Premier favors 4 core 8 thread max over even 8 core and 16 thread at the same clock speed. A skylake I7 will destroy even that 16 core beast just because of how premier is programmed dumbly.
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sad sad sad :( Will he can always go back to using scissors to edit movies...no cores needed there and speed is as much as you can keep up i geus.
But doesn't that change then depending on what software you use? its been a while i did video editing.
In different software suites results will vary, but at the moment we still aren't in a world where all of those cores will really be put to proper use in most software stacks.
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good to know, for now.
Maybe he uses Sony MovieStudio/Vegas?
My build recommendation: http://pcpartpicker.com/list/nHdL2R
I7 will really come in handy when he edits, I5's are great parts but premier will use all 8 threads, but as stated previously not much more. Other than that, I swapped in a H170 board as Z170 really isn't necessary if you are building for a friend around a locked cpu. The rest is fairly standard actually until we move to the dvd writer and windows. Don't pay $90-100 for windows, you can get it much cheaper, as shown here:
Then for the DVD R/W just get a usb one for cheaper, as you can't fit a normal, cheaper drive into the 804 due to size limitations.
I'm not sure if Vegas is better, although I think in general a dual Xeon system is a bad idea in this case. If your building for your friend, your friend that doesn't know how to build a computer, do you really want to give them a system with all the weird quirks and oddities that come with old server stuff? I mean its just not a recipe for success, friend that doesn't know how to build a computer + super hard to manage and maintain computer. Server boards are not the same as consumer boards, they behave differently and need more hands on configuration to keep them playing happy.
@thecaveman well said. No need to go the overclocking route with the i5 when you can get better performance with a stock i7. Here is a similar atx build. http://pcpartpicker.com/list/7WwL2R
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