Best editing PC for under £600 GBP

mattamomo

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Hey everyone.
New user here.
Simply put I have a 600 pound budget for a PC to Edit and Game(only light gaming).
But unlike gaming, editing seems to have many more options and variations.
If I am using software such as flash, photoshop, after effects and premiere pro, whith the intention of editing 1080p, 2.7k and 4k videos and 2D animation, what is the best I can do in this price range?
1) Is AMDs fx 8350 or Intels i5 4670k going to give better performance? With AMD having more cores but lower cache
2) What GPU would be best, a gtx 660?
3) Cuda, Open CL etc . . . What excactly are they and which is best?
4) Will any of the software mentioned take advantage of all the AMD cores maybe improving performance over intel?

Could you recommend a system, ideally with an SSD.
Any help is greatly appreciated here.
Cheers

Edit: building my self not pre built
 

VolvoDoto

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PCPartPicker part list / Price breakdown by merchant / Benchmarks

CPU: Intel Xeon E3-1230 V3 3.3GHz Quad-Core Processor (£184.74 @ Aria PC)
Motherboard: ASRock H81M-DGS Micro ATX LGA1150 Motherboard (£34.01 @ Ebuyer)
Memory: Kingston 8GB (2 x 4GB) DDR3-1600 Memory (£59.98 @ Amazon UK)
Storage: Crucial M500 120GB 2.5" Solid State Disk (£61.20 @ Aria PC)
Storage: Western Digital Caviar Blue 1TB 3.5" 7200RPM Internal Hard Drive (£43.99 @ Amazon UK)
Video Card: MSI GeForce GTX 660 2GB Video Card (£136.39 @ Scan.co.uk)
Case: Cooler Master N200 MicroATX Mid Tower Case (£31.27 @ Amazon UK)
Power Supply: XFX ProSeries 450W 80+ Bronze Certified ATX Power Supply (£34.14 @ Scan.co.uk)
Optical Drive: Samsung SH-224DB/BEBE DVD/CD Writer (£11.98 @ Ebuyer)
Total: £597.70
(Prices include shipping, taxes, and discounts when available.)
(Generated by PCPartPicker 2014-01-19 14:27 GMT+0000)

8 threads for your editing stuff + ssd for boot and fast loading of your programs
 

mattamomo

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Interesting, does the xeon perform better than an 4th gen i5 then?
That seems to get a lot for the money, really like it, may have to fork out another 50 or so for 16gb of ram though.
 

mattamomo

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ok i like the look of the msi actually
[one thing im curious about, with the low clock speed on intels xeon, will the fx 8350 be better at editing than the i5 but better at gaming than the xeon?
If fx 8350 is not as good as editing as the i5 at least i think i can rule it out