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Hello, I'm building a computer that I'll be gaming and video editing/rendering on. I bought a 4790k for it, and I want to know if I can do some good video editing and rendering on it. I also want to know if my performance will be improved by overclocking it to 4.7 or 4.8 GHz.

As for WHAT I'll be video editing, I'll be video editing mostly 1080p, 4k on a RARE occasion, and I'll probably edit films anywhere from 2 minutes to 30 minutes. Rendering I'll be doing 4k rare occasion and 1080p most of the time. I won't constantly be video editing/rendering, I don't have a career, it's more of a hobby.
 
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You'll have more than enough power to edit and render video. I'd recommend 16 gig or more of fast system memory also if you can afford it.

You may also want to consider making use of your GPU for rendering and editing if you have a good add in card...most video editing software today can also make use of GPU hardware and is much faster than using the CPU for most video work.
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Well, being as that you've already bought it.......

Its a good chip, especially with an overclock. It will certainly work. Its like with anything CPU intensive, the more you spend the more performance you get. Given what you bought, I would have recommended a 5820 on an X99 board all day as you can land 2 more CPU cores and 4 more threads for about the same price as a Z97 build.

Just get yourself a nice strong NVidia GPU now.
 
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As said above, something like the 5280k would be a better chip for rendering and video editing. But the 4790k is still great for that stuff, it is a very powerful chip.

Overclocking will increase its performance significantly, just make sure you have sufficient cooling for it ( Do NOT use stock cooling for overclocking!!! )
 
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You'll have more than enough power to edit and render video. I'd recommend 16 gig or more of fast system memory also if you can afford it.

You may also want to consider making use of your GPU for rendering and editing if you have a good add in card...most video editing software today can also make use of GPU hardware and is much faster than using the CPU for most video work.
 
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It'll be fine - the i7-4790K is an excellent CPU for productivity (I have one and use it for running VMs, coding, and image editing). The difference between the i7-4790K and i7-5820K is at most 15%, and frequently none (dependent upon the software being used).

See Tom's Hardware's X99 review - they have the Adobe video editing software benchmarked: http://www.tomshardware.co.uk/intel-core-i7-5960x-haswell-e-cpu,review-33029-5.html
 
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Thanks for replies, I will overclock the hell out of it, I got a Noctua NH-D15 as well as 16 gigs of DDR3 1600 Cas 9 ram that I'm planning to overclock. As fr GPU, not sure how that would be relevant in processing chunks of the video, but oh well, its a Radeon R9 380X, so it should be plenty



I got myself the processor for 300, as well as a high quality Z97 Gaming 5 by MSI for 130, and a set of 16 gigs DDR3 1600 RAM Cas 9 as said above for 60 bucks. In total it's about $490

If I got a 5820k, I'd be spending 390, the cheapest X99 motherboard is 170, and the cheapest RAM I could find (16 gigs) was 70 bucks DDR4. However, it was 2400 MHz (good) but Cas 16...

16/2400=0.0066666... * 2000 = 13.3333...

So the DDR4 at 70 bucks is about 13 nano seconds response time.

As for the DDR3 I bought, the response time was 11.25 nano seconds, so technically I'd be spending extra for less performance for the RAM. Anyway X99 workstation is 630 dollars, and that's the cheapest possible configuration. so really you're comparing a 140 dollar difference, which is NOT the same
 
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Looks like you got some good pricing, so yeah, its definitely NOT the same. Had it been normal retail pricing however...

To put the CPU difference in to real world perspective:
OC'ing your 4790K will yield an average improvement of about 8.5% over stock
WITH that overclock, you're still about 6% less powerful than a stock 5820K
Overclocking that 5820K yields about an 18% improvement over a stock 5820K

So, an overclocked 5820K is about 26% more powerful than an overclocked 4790K, AND you're gaining 4 more processing threads, which an application like video editing apps can take advantage of. For gaming, they'll both perform basically the same as they both have more than enough power. You're also provided more PCIe lanes on X99 to utilize more expansion capabilities for multi-GPU, add-in RAID cards, network adapters, etc.

Note that memory performance overall yields only a few percent increase and its very dependent on what application is actually using that resource, and how much. There's many articles out there with interesting metrics on this.

So $140 for 26% processing improvement? Worth it to me. 26% processing improvement for about the same price when not getting the deals you did, definitely worth it.
 
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OK, thanks for info. I already posted a thread about the maximum PCIe expansions to see if they'd work well, and I got a reply saying they would. Anyway, as long as the 4790k won't burn out, or cause anything bad under a large render, I should be fine with the 4790k.

 
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