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Hello. I am building a PC and have a $500 budget. I am starting off with a CPU, and then a motherboard. I will be using this CPU for video editing on Davinci Resolve. 4K and 1080p. No overclocking. I don't care about fast rendering, I need a smooth editing experience. What are my options on the Intel side?
 
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Just thinking out loud, but a PC like this will be almost entirely empty space, even with a small microATX case. With no riser cards, you might as well go with a small form factor. Also, you're likely never going to exceed ~150w under any circumstances, so typical 500+ watt PC power supplies are massive overkill.

This small form factor machine needs a CPU, RAM and a hard drive. It will accept any (65w) socket 1151 desktop CPU into it, has two RAM slots (needs laptop sized SO-DIMMs) and will take a total of 4 hard drives, 2 M.2 form factor and 2 2.5".

https://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16856158048

Plus, it comes out cheaper than a full sized desktop so you can definitely afford a better CPU.
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This seems great, but I need a PC that is a maximum of $500 TOTAL, with the components and Windows.





 
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I would recommend hopping on pcpartpicker. Here's an example of a $500 build:

PCPartPicker part list / Price breakdown by merchant

CPU: Intel Pentium G4560 3.5GHz Dual-Core Processor ($59.99 @ SuperBiiz)
Motherboard: Gigabyte GA-B250M-DS3H Micro ATX LGA1151 Motherboard ($68.89 @ OutletPC)
Memory: G.Skill NT Series 8GB (2 x 4GB) DDR4-2400 Memory ($57.99 @ Newegg)
Storage: Crucial MX300 275GB M.2-2280 Solid State Drive ($89.88 @ OutletPC)
Storage: Seagate Barracuda 2TB 3.5" 7200RPM Internal Hard Drive ($67.01 @ Amazon)
Case: Fractal Design Core 1100 MicroATX Mini Tower Case ($39.99 @ NCIX US)
Power Supply: EVGA 500W 80+ Bronze Certified ATX Power Supply ($45.49 @ OutletPC)
Operating System: Microsoft Windows 10 Home OEM 64-bit ($88.58 @ OutletPC)
Total: $517.82
Prices include shipping, taxes, and discounts when available
Generated by PCPartPicker 2017-03-26 21:11 EDT-0400

If you don't need as much storage, you might ditch the spinning hard drive. Or, perhaps you'll keep the spinner and drop the SSD down to a ~120GB model. With the money saved you might move up to a Core i3 or even i5 CPU - the AVX instructions on an i3 will help a good bit in some rendering tasks.

AMD's upcoming Ryzen "5" series CPUs will offer a tremendous value for rendering, but you're almost certainly not going to hit a $500 pricepoint with one.
 
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Just thinking out loud, but a PC like this will be almost entirely empty space, even with a small microATX case. With no riser cards, you might as well go with a small form factor. Also, you're likely never going to exceed ~150w under any circumstances, so typical 500+ watt PC power supplies are massive overkill.

This small form factor machine needs a CPU, RAM and a hard drive. It will accept any (65w) socket 1151 desktop CPU into it, has two RAM slots (needs laptop sized SO-DIMMs) and will take a total of 4 hard drives, 2 M.2 form factor and 2 2.5".

https://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16856158048

Plus, it comes out cheaper than a full sized desktop so you can definitely afford a better CPU.
 
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