So, We initially bought a MAC Mini because we were recommended it would suit our editing needs. This is a lie.
Anyways, I finally managed to get this sold and now we have a £500 Budget (I can probably push it to £550) to Purchase/Build a suitable machine to edit videos and audio with.
We reside in the UK, Don't need monitors of any peripherals or an OS.
Now I know this isn't a huge budget but most of the dosh went on lighting, camera and audio equipment.
Anyways,
I would appreciated it if anyone could help us out with this!
Build 2 has a more powerful GPU. Both the i5 and the Xeon will perform good.
The RAM is a single 8 GB module, so over time you could populate all the slots and get all the 32 GB max. The SSD and HDD aren't high capacity, but should do fine for a while.
Both builds are a bit over budget, but i hope they are well rounded.
You mentioned lighting and audio so I'm going to assume that you're rendering out video. You're going to want to lean towards the beefer Xeon CPU as the GPU isn't going to do all that much aside from rendering low res live previews and getting handed side tasks. Push the ram up to 16 whenever possible as 8 will get demolished with more tracks/higher res source. Set the 1TB drive as scratch and media, after that best of luck to you.