i7 7700k or R7 1700X for Video Editing?!?

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anselme

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I'm planning my new video editing work station for Premier and stumbled across these two CPUs:

Intel Core i7-7700K
AMD Ryzen R7 1700X

Which one would you recommend? The AMD has more cores and higher multi core speed but the Intel has dedicated video de/encoding support.

Thanks for your help!
 
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I would go for the i7. It has less cores, but its stronger and runs processes at a faster rate.
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marko55

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I get the feeling I'm gonna be copy/pasting this a bit.....

Its honestly a no brainer for your use case. You should see substantial gains in content creation with the 1700 or 1700X. I would OC either or to 4.0 which is pretty straight forward. People are doing it easily even with the 1700 that comes with the stock cooler from AMD for $330, which is ridiculous. Even at 3.9 the 1700 or 1700X will scream when multi-threading and still do great gaming.

There's talk that the 1700 & 1700X are actually the same chip. There's questions around the binning process at AMD and there actually being any diff between the 1700, 1700X and 1800X right now as they all only seem to be able to OC to 4.0 consistently. Some folks are reaching 4.1 but at the expense of high voltages and not all chips are stable.

Just beware of compatibility on the AM4 platform. Not a lot of liquid coolers out there at the moment. The few that will work require you to seek out an additional bracket from the manufacturer after you order your cooler. Memory clocking is odd to say the least. If you're going to run 2 DIMMs you can reach over 2400. 4 DIMMs gets interesting.

Still a lot to come for this platform. Hopefully BIOS updates will open up some more OC capability and better memory clocking capabilities but the latter may just end up being a limitation of the CPU (not a huge deal real world anyway). Regardless, consider that buying a 1700/1700X is basically the same from a processing perspective as buying a $1050 6900K...
 
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M_sked

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I would go for the i7. It has less cores, but its stronger and runs processes at a faster rate.
 
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