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Grimsykins

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I've been out of the PC building world for about 7 years so I'm at a bit of a loss for where to start. I wanted to avoid prebuilt systems as I enjoy doing it myself but I'm looking for a build around the $500 range that can edit 1080p video in Adobe premiere in a timely manner.. I'm looking for something quad core and 16gb of ram. Being able to play games and maybe record via shadow play is a plus.

Any advice or wisdom on the subject would be appreciated.

Also the price is fairly negotiable. I also don't plan on editing videos longer than 20 minutes. My current dual core laptop with 4GB of RAM takes hours to render a 6 minute video. I'd like to lessen that significantly.
 
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Your budget is pretty tight for what you need it to do. I suggest spending the extra $70 for this build. If not then you can buy a FX-6300 instead but I don't suggest it. From my research Nvidia seems to be the way to go for Adobe Premiere.

PCPartPicker part list / Price breakdown by merchant

CPU: AMD FX-8320 3.5GHz 8-Core Processor ($138.88 @ OutletPC)
Motherboard: Gigabyte GA-78LMT-USB3 Micro ATX AM3+ Motherboard ($52.99 @ SuperBiiz)
Memory: G.Skill Ripjaws X Series 16GB (2 x 8GB) DDR3-1866 Memory ($64.99 @ Newegg)
Storage: Western Digital Caviar Blue 1TB 3.5" 7200RPM Internal Hard Drive ($48.73 @ OutletPC)
Video Card: EVGA GeForce GTX 960 2GB...
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Your budget is pretty tight for what you need it to do. I suggest spending the extra $70 for this build. If not then you can buy a FX-6300 instead but I don't suggest it. From my research Nvidia seems to be the way to go for Adobe Premiere.

PCPartPicker part list / Price breakdown by merchant

CPU: AMD FX-8320 3.5GHz 8-Core Processor ($138.88 @ OutletPC)
Motherboard: Gigabyte GA-78LMT-USB3 Micro ATX AM3+ Motherboard ($52.99 @ SuperBiiz)
Memory: G.Skill Ripjaws X Series 16GB (2 x 8GB) DDR3-1866 Memory ($64.99 @ Newegg)
Storage: Western Digital Caviar Blue 1TB 3.5" 7200RPM Internal Hard Drive ($48.73 @ OutletPC)
Video Card: EVGA GeForce GTX 960 2GB Superclocked Video Card ($184.99 @ SuperBiiz)
Case: Xion XON-310_BK MicroATX Mid Tower Case ($31.99 @ Newegg)
Power Supply: EVGA 500W 80+ Bronze Certified ATX Power Supply ($43.56 @ Mac Mall)
Case Fan: Kingwin CF-08LB 30.0 CFM 80mm Fan ($2.49 @ Micro Center)
Total: $568.62
Prices include shipping, taxes, and discounts when available
Generated by PCPartPicker 2016-04-03 05:15 EDT-0400
 
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Grimsykins

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I could increase the budget up to around $700, including the OS. With a micro ATX build do I run the risk of the rendering causing overheating at all?
 
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Sorry about the late response..

I would highly suggest using Windows 10.

As long as you have adequate airflow overheating should not be a problem.. A "safer" (kind of) alternative would be just a normal ATX form factor which would look like this:

PCPartPicker part list / Price breakdown by merchant

CPU: AMD FX-8320 3.5GHz 8-Core Processor ($138.88 @ OutletPC)
CPU Cooler: Cooler Master Hyper T4 70.0 CFM Rifle Bearing CPU Cooler ($23.32 @ NCIX US)
Motherboard: MSI 970 GAMING ATX AM3+ Motherboard ($92.20 @ B&H)
Memory: G.Skill Ripjaws X Series 16GB (2 x 8GB) DDR3-1866 Memory ($74.88 @ OutletPC)
Storage: Western Digital Caviar Blue 1TB 3.5" 7200RPM Internal Hard Drive ($48.66 @ OutletPC)
Video Card: EVGA GeForce GTX 960 2GB Superclocked Video Card ($184.99 @ SuperBiiz)
Case: Corsair SPEC-02 ATX Mid Tower Case ($49.99 @ Amazon)
Power Supply: EVGA 500W 80+ Bronze Certified ATX Power Supply ($34.99 @ Newegg)
Case Fan: Cooler Master SickleFlow 69.7 CFM 120mm Fan ($6.89 @ OutletPC)
Total: $654.80
Prices include shipping, taxes, and discounts when available
Generated by PCPartPicker 2016-04-06 01:26 EDT-0400


Now cooling is your choice. A general rule of thumb is that a cooler rig is a rig that last longer.. The Spec 02 comes with 2 120mm fans. A Non-LED for rear exhaust and then a red LED one for the intake. I highly suggest getting a third fan for the other intake fan spot which cools your hard drive(s). I included that.. another option would be to buy 2 140mm fans and use those as intakes..

My only concern with the LED fan I suggest is that it might be a different shade of red than the one included. It's a very good fan otherwise. (I kind of doubt that the reds will be different after comparing them but it's just something to keep in mind.)

Lastly, your hard drive. I don't know what you will be rendering and how much of it either.. You will need to decided what would be an appropriate size for your hard drive. I used the 1TB Caviar Blue just to start off somewhere and that's what almost everyone goes with for casual computers. A fast drive is the Caviar Black/BLACK SERIES/ WD Black. (All same hard drives just different names for whatever reason)..

Feel free to ask any questions, I know this can be overwhelming :)
 
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