- Jan 25, 2016
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Hi, first-time poster, long-time lurker here.
So here's what's up: I'm a film student and about to serious about video editing. I currently have a Creative Cloud subscription and am focusing on Premiere, After Effects and Photoshop, so those are the programs I am most concerned about being able to run well. My current system chokes pretty badly.
As an aside, I am not really concerned at all about gaming. The extent of my computer gaming is playing those little hidden object games.
Another thing I should point out is that I'm a little behind the times in terms of hardware. I actually work as a computer tech, but almost everything I do has been software support for so long that I have become pretty disconnected from the current state of hardware. What I know is from my research over the past few days.
Money is a very big concern here. I want the best machine I can get, but the money is just not really there. If I'm able to pull off a few minor miracles, I can MAYBE pull together $1,000. But that's the best case scenario. More likely I am looking at more like $500 to $700, which I know is not much for an editing rig.
So a few questions. . .
In that ideal world where I have a grand, I have been looking at the i7-4790K. The benchmarks look good and it seems to be the hot thing right now for anyone looking for a high-performing CPU at a price that's still relatively reasonable. But like I said, I may just not be able to afford that, in which case I'm looking at the i5-4690K, the FX-8350 or possibly even the FX-8320.
What's everyone think of the FX chips for an editing system? I know they're aging and on the way out. But they seem to deliver pretty good bang for the buck and they also, from what I've read, seem to be pretty good at the specific tasks that I'm wanting to perform. Traditionally, I have been an AMD "ride together, die together" type, but I do understand that Intel is killing it right now.
Also, I am trying to understand the situation with the hard drives. All of my machines have had a single drive. That's all I've really needed. But I'm reading that at a minimum I need three drives -- one for the OS/programs, one for the source files and one for the output. Can someone tell me more about this and explain the performance differences that can be expected between a single drive and three drives?
So I guess these two questions are the most pressing for me at this time. If anyone is bored and would like to put the time into it, I wouldn't mind hearing how--if you were building an editing rig--you would spend the money on a $1K system and how you would spend your money if your budget was hampered and more in the $500-$700 range. I would particularly be interested to know if anyone thinks something worthwhile could be done for as little as $500 (my guess is no).
Anyway, sorry for the long post, and thanks in advance for everyone's help.
So here's what's up: I'm a film student and about to serious about video editing. I currently have a Creative Cloud subscription and am focusing on Premiere, After Effects and Photoshop, so those are the programs I am most concerned about being able to run well. My current system chokes pretty badly.
As an aside, I am not really concerned at all about gaming. The extent of my computer gaming is playing those little hidden object games.
Another thing I should point out is that I'm a little behind the times in terms of hardware. I actually work as a computer tech, but almost everything I do has been software support for so long that I have become pretty disconnected from the current state of hardware. What I know is from my research over the past few days.
Money is a very big concern here. I want the best machine I can get, but the money is just not really there. If I'm able to pull off a few minor miracles, I can MAYBE pull together $1,000. But that's the best case scenario. More likely I am looking at more like $500 to $700, which I know is not much for an editing rig.
So a few questions. . .
In that ideal world where I have a grand, I have been looking at the i7-4790K. The benchmarks look good and it seems to be the hot thing right now for anyone looking for a high-performing CPU at a price that's still relatively reasonable. But like I said, I may just not be able to afford that, in which case I'm looking at the i5-4690K, the FX-8350 or possibly even the FX-8320.
What's everyone think of the FX chips for an editing system? I know they're aging and on the way out. But they seem to deliver pretty good bang for the buck and they also, from what I've read, seem to be pretty good at the specific tasks that I'm wanting to perform. Traditionally, I have been an AMD "ride together, die together" type, but I do understand that Intel is killing it right now.
Also, I am trying to understand the situation with the hard drives. All of my machines have had a single drive. That's all I've really needed. But I'm reading that at a minimum I need three drives -- one for the OS/programs, one for the source files and one for the output. Can someone tell me more about this and explain the performance differences that can be expected between a single drive and three drives?
So I guess these two questions are the most pressing for me at this time. If anyone is bored and would like to put the time into it, I wouldn't mind hearing how--if you were building an editing rig--you would spend the money on a $1K system and how you would spend your money if your budget was hampered and more in the $500-$700 range. I would particularly be interested to know if anyone thinks something worthwhile could be done for as little as $500 (my guess is no).
Anyway, sorry for the long post, and thanks in advance for everyone's help.
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