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Hey Everyone!

I am helping my friend build a PC for video/photo editing. I am familiar with building a gaming pc since I have already done this, but I am in need of help with this one.

From what I have read to far: The RAM, GPU, CPU certainly play a big role in this type of PC build. He is working with roughly a $1,000 budget; I cannot get a general consensus if he should use an Intel or AMD build. If someone can actually give me a more objective answer of the cons and pros of using either or for this type of build, it would be greatly appreciated.

Lastly, he needs at least 1080 HD quality (this is important since he is a photographer).

Thank you for any help you guys can give me!
 
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Here's an AMD bulid.
(color theme: black & red)

PCPartPicker part list / Price breakdown by merchant

CPU: AMD FX-8350 4.0GHz 8-Core Processor ($138.99 @ SuperBiiz)
Motherboard: MSI 990FXA-GAMING ATX AM3+/AM3 Motherboard ($143.99 @ Jet)
Memory: G.Skill Ripjaws X Series 16GB (2 x 8GB) DDR3-2133 Memory ($79.99 @ Newegg)
Storage: SK hynix SL308 500GB 2.5" Solid State Drive ($128.99 @ SuperBiiz)
Storage: Hitachi Deskstar 5K3000 3TB 3.5" 5400RPM Internal Hard Drive ($70.99 @ Amazon)
Video Card: MSI GeForce GTX 1060 6GB 6GB GAMING X Video Card ($289.99 @ SuperBiiz)
Case: Corsair SPEC-01 RED ATX Mid Tower Case ($39.98 @ Newegg)
Power Supply: SeaSonic 520W 80+ Bronze Certified Fully-Modular ATX Power Supply ($62.99 @ SuperBiiz)
Total: $955.91
Prices include shipping, taxes, and discounts when available
Generated by PCPartPicker 2016-12-04 06:44 EST-0500

Few words.

Put in the best AMD CPU (from 2012) there is. With 8 cores and 8 threads, it's good for multi-core usage (e.g video rendering).
Reason why i picked the MoBo: http://www.tomshardware.com/reviews/best-motherboards,3984-3.html
Went with 16GB of DDR3 RAM at 2133 Mhz to help in video editing.
For OS, put in good 500GB SSD from SK Hynix.
And for data storage, a reliable HGST (Hitachi) 3TB HDD.
GPU is GTX 1060 6GB that is best at 1080p.
Went with Corsair case to match the black & red theme of the MoBo and GPU.
And lastly, a good PSU that comes directly from the best PSU OEM, Seasonic. 80+ Bronze and fully modular.

And now, Intel build as well.
(color theme: black & red)

PCPartPicker part list / Price breakdown by merchant

CPU: Intel Core i7-6700 3.4GHz Quad-Core Processor ($303.77 @ OutletPC)
Motherboard: MSI H110M PRO-D Micro ATX LGA1151 Motherboard ($58.99 @ SuperBiiz)
Memory: GeIL EVO POTENZA 16GB (2 x 8GB) DDR4-2133 Memory ($72.99 @ Newegg)
Storage: SK hynix SL308 500GB 2.5" Solid State Drive ($128.99 @ SuperBiiz)
Storage: Hitachi Deskstar 5K3000 3TB 3.5" 5400RPM Internal Hard Drive ($70.99 @ Amazon)
Video Card: MSI GeForce GTX 1060 6GB 6GB GAMING X Video Card ($289.99 @ SuperBiiz)
Case: Apevia X-QPACK3-RD MicroATX Mini Tower Case ($48.99 @ SuperBiiz)
Power Supply: SeaSonic 520W 80+ Bronze Certified Fully-Modular ATX Power Supply ($62.99 @ SuperBiiz)
Total: $1037.70
Prices include shipping, taxes, and discounts when available
Generated by PCPartPicker 2016-12-04 07:02 EST-0500

Few words as well.

Switched out only CPU, MoBo, RAM and case.
Put in the best Intel's LGA1151 CPU from Skylake family. 4 cores and 8 threads. Thanks to much newer manufacturing, the i7-6700 will outperform FX-8350 in every way. comparison: http://cpu.userbenchmark.com/Compare/AMD-FX-8350-vs-Intel-Core-i7-6700/1489vs3515
Reason why i picked the MoBo: http://www.tomshardware.com/reviews/best-motherboards,3984.html
Went with 16GB of DDR4 RAM at 2133 Mhz to help in video editing.
And since the MoBo size got smaller, went with a smaller case, while keeping the black & red theme.

Intel build is far better in every aspect than the AMD build.
Here's also a comparison between the two builds, AMD as a base and Intel as an alternative.

Userbenchmark PC Build Comparison

Baseline Bench: Game 83%, Desk 61%, Work 50%
CPU: AMD FX-8350
GPU: Nvidia GTX 1060-6GB
SSD: Samsung 850 Evo 500GB
HDD: Hitachi Deskstar 7K3000 3TB
RAM: G.SKILL RipjawsX DDR3 1866 C10 2x8GB

Alternative Bench: Game 88%, Desk 82%, Work 62%
CPU: Intel Core i7-6700
GPU: Nvidia GTX 1060-6GB
SSD: Samsung 850 Evo 500GB
HDD: Hitachi Deskstar 7K3000 3TB
RAM: G.SKILL Ripjaws V DDR4 2133 C15 2x8GB
 
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I am looking more at the intel build you listed and I am liking it...my one question that I do have is why that RAM, the latency is rather high... shouldn't there be RAM with a lower latency, or since the speed is higher that is okay?
 
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Ok. Thank you so much for all of your help!

An interesting thing I came across while looking into the SSD was someone mentioned something about RAM acceleration. They recommended staying with SAMSUNG since their SSDs are capable of this. Is having RAM acceleration necessary? I could not find a particular link about it, so if you can provide me with any information about that, it would be wonderful :D

 
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You're talking about Samsung's RAPID (Real Time Acceleration Processing of I/O Data) mode?
It's basically caching some of the files inside the RAM in expense of using more RAM.
Here's a discussion about it,
link: https://www.reddit.com/r/hardware/comments/1wwcha/is_samsungs_ssd_rapid_mode_worth_the_ram_it_uses/

In my opinion, it's not worth to enable the Rapid mode when you use Samsung SSD. It can cause you several RAM and SSD related issues. To name the few: insufficient memory errors, disk write errors, file corruptions etc.
 
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