Help with building £900/$1400 Gaming PC For Video Editing And Livestreaming

infinitigamesuk · Nov 16, 2014

I have been using a laptop for about 2 years now to, play games, edit videos for my YouTube channel and stream to Twitch. However as time has gone on, the laptop has struggled to keep up with the games I have wanted to play, and if the games do run, then it's only at very low framrates. Also, rendering short videos (10-15 minutes) takes anywhere upwards of 10 hours, and livestreaming is a nightmare, I have to stream at 360p and the stream never goes above 11 fps. So, I have devised this build, to be able to run pretty much anything I throw at it, and actually allow me to stream at a decent quality and framerate (720p 30fps). I would appreciate it if you could look over the parts list below and tell me if I should make any alterations.

NOTE: I need the second hard drive for storing videos and projects I am working on for my YouTube channel, I currently have a 3TB external drive which is almost full.

PCPartPicker part list / Price breakdown by merchant

CPU: AMD FX-8350 4.0GHz 8-Core Processor (£125.00 @ Amazon UK)
Motherboard: Asus M5A99X EVO R2.0 ATX AM3+ Motherboard (£94.99 @ Amazon UK)
Memory: G.Skill Ripjaws X Series 16GB (2 x 8GB) DDR3-1600 Memory (£108.37 @ CCL Computers)
Storage: Western Digital WD Green 2TB 3.5" 5400RPM Internal Hard Drive (£58.99 @ Amazon UK)
Storage: Western Digital Red 4TB 3.5" 5900RPM Internal Hard Drive (£119.94 @ Aria PC)
Video Card: Zotac GeForce GTX 970 4GB Video Card (£249.99 @ Ebuyer)
Case: Cooler Master K380 ATX Mid Tower Case (£32.99 @ Amazon UK)
Power Supply: EVGA 600B 600W 80+ Bronze Certified ATX Power Supply (£46.09 @ Aria PC)
Optical Drive: Samsung SH-224DB/BEBE DVD/CD Writer (£10.46 @ Aria PC)
Operating System: Microsoft Windows 8.1 (OEM) (64-bit) (£72.35 @ Aria PC)
Total: £919.17
Prices include shipping, taxes, and discounts when available
Generated by PCPartPicker 2014-11-16 19:04 GMT+0000

iron8orn · Nov 16, 2014

Well for streaming games and running a 970 the 8350 is going to need a pretty good oc and even if you oc it would cripple the 970 in sli so I would recommend a i5 over a 8350. Really a i7 would be best for your needs.
You want to get 7200rpm 64mb cache hard drives.
A good 550w is enough for 1 970 and 750w for 2.
http://www.tomshardware.com/forum/id-1804779/power-supply-unit-tier-list.html
better add another 50w to those numbers for overclocking.

sora · Nov 16, 2014

infinitigamesuk :

I have been using a laptop for about 2 years now to, play games, edit videos for my YouTube channel and stream to Twitch. However as time has gone on, the laptop has struggled to keep up with the games I have wanted to play, and if the games do run, then it's only at very low framrates. Also, rendering short videos (10-15 minutes) takes anywhere upwards of 10 hours, and livestreaming is a nightmare, I have to stream at 360p and the stream never goes above 11 fps. So, I have devised this build, to be able to run pretty much anything I throw at it, and actually allow me to stream at a decent quality and framerate (720p 30fps). I would appreciate it if you could look over the parts list below and tell me if I should make any alterations.

NOTE: I need the second hard drive for storing videos and projects I am working on for my YouTube channel, I currently have a 3TB external drive which is almost full.

PCPartPicker part list / Price breakdown by merchant

CPU: AMD FX-8350 4.0GHz 8-Core Processor (£125.00 @ Amazon UK)
Motherboard: Asus M5A99X EVO R2.0 ATX AM3+ Motherboard (£94.99 @ Amazon UK)
Memory: G.Skill Ripjaws X Series 16GB (2 x 8GB) DDR3-1600 Memory (£108.37 @ CCL Computers)
Storage: Western Digital WD Green 2TB 3.5" 5400RPM Internal Hard Drive (£58.99 @ Amazon UK)
Storage: Western Digital Red 4TB 3.5" 5900RPM Internal Hard Drive (£119.94 @ Aria PC)
Video Card: Zotac GeForce GTX 970 4GB Video Card (£249.99 @ Ebuyer)
Case: Cooler Master K380 ATX Mid Tower Case (£32.99 @ Amazon UK)
Power Supply: EVGA 600B 600W 80+ Bronze Certified ATX Power Supply (£46.09 @ Aria PC)
Optical Drive: Samsung SH-224DB/BEBE DVD/CD Writer (£10.46 @ Aria PC)
Operating System: Microsoft Windows 8.1 (OEM) (64-bit) (£72.35 @ Aria PC)
Total: £919.17
Prices include shipping, taxes, and discounts when available
Generated by PCPartPicker 2014-11-16 19:04 GMT+0000

That build seems pretty solid but I would go with the FX-8320 as it can achieve the same speeds as an FX-8350 with minimal overclocking and cooling.

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