Is this a good budget gaming/editing rig?

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My best friend is trying to get into video editing for gaming, she's reusing old parts as she's on a strict budget. She's got an AMD a10 5800k and is trying to pair it up with a GTX 1050 she'll be using Nvidia Shadowplay to record and then Adobe Premiere pro to edit. Will this hardware suffice for her needs? Or should she update her computer before doing so?
 
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That CPU will be a major hangup in both gaming and editing (especially editing) so a new board/CPU/memory will be required at some point in the near future but I think ryzen will be what she needs as you'll be able to get a reasonable priced 8core 16 thread processor that should do both well after its release. For the time being what you have mentioned should work. Just won't game well, and will edit worse.
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If the budget is a concern, use what you have. If she's just getting started with this, don't immediately start throwing money at it. Once she's gotten some experience and has a workflow established, she can pick upgrades that make the biggest difference to her use case. Plus, if you wait to upgrade, the parts you need will be cheaper when you do get them.

However, if the money is there, she should consider a CPU upgrade once Ryzen comes out for better performance in Premiere. Just be sure to check benchmarks for Premiere before buying.

If it turns out she needs better gaming performance, you should get a GPU upgrade. There's plenty of info on Tom's Hardware regarding which ones are good. Just don't get more than you need if you're still new to this.
 
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That CPU will be a major hangup in both gaming and editing (especially editing) so a new board/CPU/memory will be required at some point in the near future but I think ryzen will be what she needs as you'll be able to get a reasonable priced 8core 16 thread processor that should do both well after its release. For the time being what you have mentioned should work. Just won't game well, and will edit worse.
 
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Will there be any issues with the CPU bottlenecking the GPU? I know the processors 5 years old.
 
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Agreed, for what it is, it's fairly well balanced. You won't get huge improvements in gaming from upgrading just the GPU, but you would get huge improvements in Premiere from just upgrading the CPU. A CPU upgrade alone would not really help in games, though.
 
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