$1000 Xeon Based Video Editing/Gaming Rig For My Friend

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My friend wants a system for video editing and gaming. I'm not expecting him to really be playing any super graphically intensive games so this build had a focus on the CPU rather than the GPU. He uses Adobe programs for editing, I believe.

His budget was $1000 Canadian, including shipping and tax, he is very strict about this. Without tax, the real budget is $885, which is kind of a bummer... But this is the best I could put together for new components with that amount of money.

PCPartPicker part list: http://ca.pcpartpicker.com/p/R2JNhM
Price breakdown by merchant: http://ca.pcpartpicker.com/p/R2JNhM/by_merchant/

PCPartPicker part list / Price breakdown by merchant

CPU: Intel Xeon E3-1231 V3 3.4GHz Quad-Core Processor ($320.98 @ Newegg Canada)
Motherboard: MSI H81M-P33 Micro ATX LGA1150 Motherboard ($59.69 @ DirectCanada)
Memory: A-Data XPG V1.0 8GB (2 x 4GB) DDR3-1600 Memory ($54.98 @ NCIX)
Storage: Western Digital Caviar Blue 1TB 3.5" 7200RPM Internal Hard Drive ($60.98 @ Newegg Canada)
Video Card: EVGA GeForce GTX 960 2GB SuperSC ACX 2.0+ Video Card ($229.99 @ NCIX)
Case: Cooler Master N200 MicroATX Mid Tower Case ($54.50 @ Vuugo)
Power Supply: EVGA 500W 80+ Certified ATX Power Supply ($39.99 @ NCIX)
Total: $821.11
Prices include shipping, taxes, and discounts when available
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Would this build work out? I don't actually know much about a lot of these parts apart from the CPU, GPU, and PSU. He does not care about how the case looks or aesthetics or anything. If you guys have any more suggestions then please post them! Remember, the cheaper the better. ;)
 
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Its 750 non TI, the gap from 960 to 750 is huge if it wasn't then nVidia wouldn't send out 950. I was thinking to put 750 in my option in the first place but 163$ for GTX 750 looks like horrible deal here, seems like the prices are still holding in Canada and really shouldn't.
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Which software is he going to use to edit in? Premier Pro? Sony Vegas? Or something else?

Also, in his particular case, I would downscale to a GTX 950 or a comparable Radeon depending on the software and invest in at least 16 GBs of ram. This is what I did with my machine long ago - although I am doing 3D and compositing a lot more and editing is just a side thing.
 
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Oh yes, I forgot to add this in. He uses Adobe programs. And I'll see if the 16GB can work, it's about $45 more so its definitely possible.
How does using single channel 8GB memory and then upgrading to 16 later sound?
 
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PCPartPicker part list / Price breakdown by merchant

CPU: Intel Xeon E3-1231 V3 3.4GHz Quad-Core Processor ($320.98 @ Newegg Canada)
Motherboard: ASRock H97M Anniversary Micro ATX LGA1150 Motherboard ($73.99 @ Newegg Canada)
Memory: A-Data XPG V1.0 8GB (2 x 4GB) DDR3-1600 Memory ($54.98 @ NCIX)
Storage: Kingston SSDNow V300 Series 120GB 2.5" Solid State Drive ($59.99 @ Amazon Canada)
Storage: Western Digital Caviar Blue 1TB 3.5" 7200RPM Internal Hard Drive ($60.98 @ Newegg Canada)
Video Card: EVGA GeForce GTX 960 2GB SuperSC ACX 2.0+ Video Card ($229.99 @ NCIX)
Case: Corsair 100R ATX Mid Tower Case ($54.99 @ NCIX)
Power Supply: EVGA 500W 80+ Certified ATX Power Supply ($39.99 @ NCIX)
Total: $895.89
Prices include shipping, taxes, and discounts when available
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A bit different attempt 10$ over limit, but you have fairly good ssd and mobo with 4 rams slots.
Imo the SSD will make more noticeable difference in the first place, obviously if he feels like there is not enough ram there is still 2 slots for upgrade.
Btw Corsair 100R is also really great case for this price.
The rest is hardly swapable, Xeon has perfect value, Caviar Blue has good reputation already, you probably wont find any better GPU in this price range, PSU fairly good with this setup and RAM is just RAM.

Edit: If its really pushing over the cash limit then take out the SSD and get Samsung Evo 120-250 GB later. Don't go with 2 RAM slots mobo, he will be punished sooner or later. With 4 slots you have at least an option for further upgrade if needed.
Btw Dual ram might get few % of boost with video editing, so 1 stick at start is not the best idea... pairing one later might not be so easy.
 
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Looks great man! I was trying to keep it inexpensive for a bit of headroom.
I asked him about the SSD and he doesn't really seem interested so yeah. Maybe some time later? :)
 
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Yeah thats what I'm saying... just point him out that SSD is really worth the deal tho, system gets very highly responsive. Just imagine situation with editing raw files which requires lot of hdd activity. If he will rely only on Caviar Blue system will simply hang on doing such tasks until its completed. On the other hand if he uses one drive to run OS and second drive for editing, system will not be affected this way, you still have responsive OS at least to the point where CPU and RAM has some free resources.
 
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Which would you recommend for not much more?
 
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Some Haswell compatible, some not (maybe unconfirmed). Still safe to use and stable, just lower quality components. Some capacitors maybe Japanese, but can include the Taiwanese capacitors. Not really ideal in serious overclocking or super-high load situations, such as a Bitcoin mining rig or a high end gaming system.

I'm running 10 years rig with higher power draw components on similar grade PSU, with constant OC.... you are suggesting 50W less PSU for double the price while we are holding last penny here on the best possible setup. This rig is like 250W total power draw, maybe 300 at some weird peak situation. I'm willing to see what should be reason for this swap here... hmm?

 
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PCPartPicker part list / Price breakdown by merchant

CPU: Intel Xeon E3-1231 V3 3.4GHz Quad-Core Processor ($320.98 @ Newegg Canada)
Motherboard: Asus H81M-PLUS Micro ATX LGA1150 Motherboard ($88.00 @ shopRBC)
Memory: Crucial Ballistix Sport 16GB (2 x 8GB) DDR3-1600 Memory ($103.09 @ Amazon Canada)
Storage: Western Digital Caviar Blue 1TB 3.5" 7200RPM Internal Hard Drive ($60.97 @ DirectCanada)
Video Card: EVGA GeForce GTX 750 Ti 2GB Superclocked Video Card ($179.99 @ Memory Express)
Case: Corsair 200R ATX Mid Tower Case ($58.99 @ NCIX)
Power Supply: EVGA 500W 80+ Bronze Certified ATX Power Supply ($67.98 @ DirectCanada)
Total: $880.00
Prices include shipping, taxes, and discounts when available
Generated by PCPartPicker 2015-09-01 15:27 EDT-0400

Video editing rig with moderate gaming.

H97 mATX motherboard from ASUS with onboard USB3 headers
16 GB of RAM - really helps with editing
a corsair 200r. GREAT cheap case.
An amazing top tier psu from EVGA

a 750 Ti should get him through less intensive games.
 
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Its 750 non TI, the gap from 960 to 750 is huge if it wasn't then nVidia wouldn't send out 950. I was thinking to put 750 in my option in the first place but 163$ for GTX 750 looks like horrible deal here, seems like the prices are still holding in Canada and really shouldn't.
 
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Well, he is only a little bit experienced in video editing and a casual gamer who is gaming at 1366x768 for the time being so pretty much every system you guys have linked is overkill for him. He likes the one Ra_V_en posted the most so I guess we will go with that. Only thing I'm not sure about is the power supply. He is comfortably below his budget by $50 so he could get a better one if it is necessary. ONLY IF it is necessary.

His videos on YouTube are of skits so not very heavy stuff. I feel like he should buy the 8GB for now and then add 8 more if it is needed.

Thanks for your help though, guys!
 
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