Build Advice: Quiet High-end Video Editing/Game Recording PC

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Lord Acton

Lord Acton

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I am looking for some advice on a high-end custom PC build, which I plan to order either this month or early in January.

1. Budget / Price Range: NZ$4,000-$4,500 (hardware in New Zealand is rather more expensive than in the US).

2. What will it be used for: Video editing/rendering, playing video games at max settings while recording footage (through NVIDIA's low-impact capture system).

3. What components you do/don't require: I have all of my peripherals (including a 5K monitor), so I just need the PC itself.

One of my main requirements is that the PC be as quiet as possible (preferably silent unless it is powering on full cylinders). Automatic fan controls are a must. Advice on cooling and tower cases (and GPU variants) would be appreciated.

Current specs list (feel free to advise on all components):

  • Motherboard: ASUS X99-A II Intel X99, DDR4, ATX, LGA2011-v
    CPU: Intel Broadwell-E Core i7 6800K 6 Core 3.4Ghz 15mb (Overclocked)
    CPU Cooling: Corsair Hydro Series H115i Extreme Performance Liquid Cooling
    Memory: Corsair Vengeance 64GB 3200MHz
    SSD: Samsung 850 EVO Series 1TB 2.5" SATA SSD
    HDD: Western Digital Red PRO 6TB 128MB 6Gb/s SATA3 (would you recommend going for Gold?)
    Video Card: NVIDIA GTX1080 (not sure which version to buy - which brand, and should I buy a more expensive variant?)
    Case: NZXT Phantom 630 Ultra Full Tower Case Window
    Power Supply: Inwin Classic Series C750W 80 PLUS Platinum

This list is largely based on a template from a PC-building company's website, so I have no particular preferences for brands, etc.

Any advice would be appreciated. If you recommend changing any components, please do let me know.
 
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It all depends on pricing. The M.2 slot supports PCIe x 4 operation, so there would be a huge potential bump in read/write capabilities over SATA, but for the most part, gaming and video work are more CPU/GPU intensive, and capturing video on the fly is well within the speeds of your average bulk HDD where you'd probably be storing large video files (most 7200 rpm drives can do 100-200MB/sec and since video capture to disk is usually very sequential it's pretty 'easy' work).

If the pricing is close to par with the SATA drives, then take the free perfomance. If you can't get an equivalent sized NVMe drive at a decent price, the SATA is more than sufficient.
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Looks good to me - you could drop the 1TB SSD down into a 500Gb size to save a few bucks, and I would swap out the PSU into a Seasonic brand or rebrand, and a 650w capacity would be more than enough, even for an OC'd Broadwell hex core. Modern platforms are surprisingly efficient - the CPU is about 100w, the GPU about 200w, the rest isn't more than 100w combined so your max draw (assuming full powah) is in the 400w range.
 
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It all depends on pricing. The M.2 slot supports PCIe x 4 operation, so there would be a huge potential bump in read/write capabilities over SATA, but for the most part, gaming and video work are more CPU/GPU intensive, and capturing video on the fly is well within the speeds of your average bulk HDD where you'd probably be storing large video files (most 7200 rpm drives can do 100-200MB/sec and since video capture to disk is usually very sequential it's pretty 'easy' work).

If the pricing is close to par with the SATA drives, then take the free perfomance. If you can't get an equivalent sized NVMe drive at a decent price, the SATA is more than sufficient.
 
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Thanks for the feedback. This system build is similar to what I built for "traders" years ago and our main bottleneck was the network, which once we resolved that with a radware backend the hard drive was our limiting factor so we raided ssd in 0 and bumped out ability to process trades quite a bit.

Given what you said about the video, I hadn't thought to consider that I may not even be able to take advantage of the increased read/write speeds

My friend is set on the 1tb I can probably use the savings in money to explain this but will research a bit more I really appreciate feedback MIB
 
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