Good Pc Build For Graphic Design & Video Editing Under 500$

TheLastMartini · Jul 11, 2016

Hello Guys, I am attending art college and im going to get my degree next year & i want to prepare for assignements for the right equipment and situation.

I want to start resonably for now as I am still in college.
My friend, that has his degree in pc engineering made me pc using PC PICKER & this is what he came up with for under 500.

My Pc right now is:
HP Pavillion P6203w, here's the specifications.
http://support.hp.com/us-en/document/c01859861

& here is the build he made.

EVGA 100 B1 500 Power Supply
http://www.newegg.ca/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16817438012

GIGABYTE 78mlt USB 3
http://www.ncix.com/detail/gigabyte-78lmt-usb3-amd760g-am3-1pci-e16-1d-75286.htm

XFX Core Edition Radeon R7 250 DirectX
http://www.newegg.ca/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16814150713

Amd Fx-8320 125 Am3+
https://www.amazon.ca/Amd-Fx-8320-125-16mb-3500/dp/B009O7YU56/183-7596275-3745837?ie=UTF8&tag=pcp0f-20

Crucial Ballistix Sport 16GB Kit
https://www.amazon.ca/Crucial-Ballistix-PC3-12800-240-Pin-BLS2KIT8G3D1609DS1S00/dp/B006YG9EEW

Then he said I had at least 3/4 of a pc to run editing software.
The editing software im going to use is
sony vegas pro
photoshop
illustrator
after effects

my question is... is this any good or is there any alternative for the build to be better?

bambiboom · Jul 11, 2016

TheLastMartini :

TheLastMartini,

The applications listed are quite demanding, requiring a healthy single-threaded processor performance and for video editing, /processing as many cores as possible. The best image quality is going to be possible with a workstation graphics card, preferably a Quadro.

For that budget, the cost /performance will be much better by buying a used workstation and upgrading it. For example:

Dell Precicion T3600, 2.80GHz Xeon E5 1603 Quadro 2000, 16GB RAM, NO HDD sold for $180

The nice feature of this kind of system is, it's inexpensive and quick to get working- adding a hard drive and programs would make that usable. But then you can later over time to make it really fit the work:

Intel Xeon E5-2680 2.70GHZ 20MB 8 GT/s LGA 2011 Eight-Core CPU > sold for $61

For that very low cost, you have an 8-core Xeon E5 @ 2.7 / 3.5GHz. After Effects for example has it's peak efficiency running on 5-6 cores- not possible with a 4-core CPU..

The T3600 can use two graphics cards and up to 64GB of RAM as well.

The Quadro 2000 is not brilliant, but it's worth $50-70 which can be applied to buying:

PNY Nvidia Quadro K620 > sold for $100

> Which has more than twice the Quadro 2000 performance.

Add a Samsung 750 Evo 240GB SSD for $75. That has more than 90--95% of the performance of the 850 Evo- very fast- for 20+% less.

Add a Western Digital Blue 1TB for $55. Fast and reliable for a mechanical HD>

Let's see where we are;

System: $180
CPU: $61
GPU: $100
SSD: $75
HD: $55
____________
TOTAL = about $550 (plus shipping)

-Quadro 2000 sale @ $50

NET TOTAL = about $500 (plus shipping)

Another good candidate for the system is the HP z420:

HP Z420 Workstation | 2.80GHz Quad Core Xeon E5-1603 | 4gb PC3-8500 | DVDRW > sold for $150

I have two z420's and they've been very good performers and 100% reliable and very quiet running. I think the T3600 build quality is somewhat better and for some reason they are typically less expensive than the HP z420.

With the right purchase you have a system that you don't have to research, order, assemble, wire, and configure from a pile of parts- possibly in use in a few hours, good performance from an 8-core processor that cost $1,700 new- that will produce good image quality, be expandable and reliable.

Make every effort to have two monitors.

Cheers,

BambiBoom

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