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Please help me, one of my friend got a quote for a new desktop pc from s local shop. The main aim is to do some video editing and graphic work so need a good processor and graphics card. The quote seems to be inflated random check at takealot showed prices are on the higher side.
Kindly give some good configuration and best prices at any online or other shops
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citizensa said:
Please help me, one of my friend got a quote for a new desktop pc from s local shop. The main aim is to do some video editing and graphic work so need a good processor and graphics card. The quote seems to be inflated random check at takealot showed prices are on the higher side.
Kindly give some good configuration and best prices at any online or other shops
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The CPU is overpriced in comparison to Wootware (http://www.wootware.co.za/intel-i5-...4nm-kaby-lake-socket-lga1151-desktop-cpu.html). There are also cheaper brands RX 460 graphics cards available (http://www.wootware.co.za/computer-hardware/video-cards-video-devices/shopby/radeon_rx_460)
 
citizensa said:
Please help me, one of my friend got a quote for a new desktop pc from s local shop. The main aim is to do some video editing and graphic work so need a good processor and graphics card. The quote seems to be inflated random check at takealot showed prices are on the higher side.
Kindly give some good configuration and best prices at any online or other shops
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A Ryzen based system will give much better performance especially for video work. Drop that i5 and motherboard and replace with a Ryzen 1600 and a B350 motherboard. These can also be overclocked unlike that Intel combo.

Here is an option for these parts:

https://www.rebeltech.co.za/14870-a...-34-ghz-clock-speed-with-turbo-up-to-36-.html [ R 3678.00 ]
https://www.rebeltech.co.za/14911-m...-processors-for-socket-am4supports-ddr4-.html [ R 1632.00 ]

The 1600 is a 6 core/12 thread CPU whereas the i5 7400 is a 4 core/4 thread CPU.
 
DrJohnZoidberg said:
A Ryzen based system will give much better performance especially for video work. Drop that i5 and motherboard and replace with a Ryzen 1600 and a B350 motherboard. These can also be overclocked unlike that Intel combo.

Here is an option for these parts:

https://www.rebeltech.co.za/14870-a...-34-ghz-clock-speed-with-turbo-up-to-36-.html [ R 3678.00 ]
https://www.rebeltech.co.za/14911-m...-processors-for-socket-am4supports-ddr4-.html [ R 1632.00 ]

The 1600 is a 6 core/12 thread CPU whereas the i5 7400 is a 4 core/4 thread CPU.
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OP - go mess around on this page till you get where you want to be price-wise. The graphics card options are a bit limited...I think you can go a bit lower than a 1060. I definitely recommend more than 8Gb RAM for video editing.
 
Neoprod said:
OP - go mess around on this page till you get where you want to be price-wise. The graphics card options are a bit limited...I think you can go a bit lower than a 1060. I definitely recommend more than 8Gb RAM for video editing.
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Thanks much appreciated
 
All depends what you mean with video editing. Is this casual video editing just for fun, putting something together for Youtube now and then etc,, or is it your job, do you work with high def camera content, 3D animation rendering etc etc.

As far as I understand when it comes to video editing CPU is most important and secondly RAM, the GPU only really comes in when rendering and helps with the rendering speeds.
So I'd say the best / fastest i7 processor you can afford, at least 16 if not 32 or 64 GB of RAM and then a pretty decent GPU. Don't forget about the SSD for your OS and editing software as well as a couple TB's in HDD's.
Go check out Premiere and FinalCut forums, you'll get a lot of answers on there specific to this.
 
bigboy529 said:
So I'd say the best / fastest i7 processor you can afford.
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Ryzen would probably be the better option here. That said the OP should elaborate on which software is gonna be used as that would be the determining factor at the end of the day. Some apps love plenty of cores while others like high ipc & clocks. It's not a simple x will provide the best performance thing, when comes to imaging, video, rendering & cad you really have to look at the apps you are using and how they perform on a specific platform.
 
Even in these modern times some grfx/video apps aren't very well optimized for multi-core CPUs, often only optimized for 2 and clock speed being the more important spec.
 
ponder said:
Ryzen would probably be the better option here. That said the OP should elaborate on which software is gonna be used as that would be the determining factor at the end of the day. Some apps love plenty of cores while others like high ipc & clocks. It's not a simple x will provide the best performance thing, when comes to imaging, video, rendering & cad you really have to look at the apps you are using and how they perform on a specific platform.
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It's for a friend of mine he's using adobe pro and encore as far as I know also he uses audition etc
 
airborne said:
Even in these modern times some grfx/video apps aren't very well optimized for multi-core CPUs, often only optimized for 2 and clock speed being the more important spec.
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Wait what ? Seriously I use photoshop daily, and it uses all 4 cores, video apps have been using all available cores since 4 core CPU's have been available.Even Gimp like photoshop will use as many cores as you can throw at it especially when using filters, Gimp which is an open source project none the less

I am not sure where you got your information, but it's 2017, 2001 called it wants it's netburst back......

@OP
While 16gig Ram might seem like enough, 32gig Ram is better, the less it has to cache information on the disk even if it's an SSD the better and more responsive, Adobe photoshop for example writes massive amount of temp data, some tasks 4 or more gigabytes pending on what you are doing and amount of layers.The SSD selected isn't particularly good either, you going to need to spend a few bucks more, and get a more reliable SSD especially with the amount of disk writes expected.

I much rather prefer using a mechanical HDD due to all the temp data that is created.....
 
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Thanks a lot guys I'm learning a lot I may even want to buy one for myself to play around
 
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