Advice on building a video editing pc

Sep 21, 2018
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Hey Guys,

I just wanted to get a second opinion on a build my friend helped me out with. My main goal of the computer is for video editing. I want to be able to run Davinci Resolve, and have the capability of editing 4k video footage. My budget is around 2500-3000. I'm have some knowledge when it comes to building pc's, but I could definitely use some advice from people with more experience.

This is what we came up with:

- Corsair Crystal Series 570X RGB CC-9011098-WW Steel / Tempered Glass ATX Mid Tower Case-$189
- ASUS ROG GeForce GTX 1080 Ti DirectX 12 STRIX-GTX1080TI-11G-GAMING 11GB 352-Bit GDDR5X HDCP Ready SLI Support Video Card- $809
- EVGA SuperNOVA 750 G3, 220-G3-0750-X1, 80+ GOLD, 750W Fully Modular, EVGA ECO Mode with New HDB Fan, Includes FREE Power On Self Tester, Compact 150mm Size, Power Supply- $99
- G.SKILL TridentZ RGB Series 32GB (4 x 8GB) 288-Pin DDR4 SDRAM DDR4 3200 (PC4 25600) Desktop Memory Model F4-3200C16Q-32GTZR-$354
- ASUS ROG Maximus X Hero (Wi-Fi AC) LGA 1151 (300 Series) Intel Z370 HDMI SATA 6Gb/s USB 3.1 ATX Intel Motherboard-$259
- Intel Core i7-8086K Coffee Lake 6-Core 4.0 GHz (5.0 GHz Turbo) LGA 1151 (300 Series) 95W BX80684I78086K Desktop Processor Intel UHD Graphics 630- $429
- Windows 10 Home - 64-bit - OEM-$99
- SAMSUNG 960 PRO M.2 1TB NVMe PCI-Express 3.0 x4 Internal Solid State Drive (SSD) MZ-V6P1T0BW-$339
Total Cost- $2,574.99

Thank You for your help!
 
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Hi, overall a very solid and powerful build. The only point I would make is that the 8700K is as good as the 8086K and will save you a bit of money, though if that is not an issue, then the 8086K especially if you are not looking to overclock will give you single core to 5GHz.

Puget systems did a article on your very use case though at a Skylake/Threadripper level on Davinci and it looks like overall the Intel side is a bit better on Davinci, though they were testing Skylake versus Threadripper on Davinci, though comments made in the comments section did point to the 8700K/8086K doing a great job.

https://www.pugetsystems.com/labs/articles/DaVinci-Resolve-14-CPU-Performance-Skylake-X-vs-Threadripper-1063/
Hi, overall a very solid and powerful build. The only point I would make is that the 8700K is as good as the 8086K and will save you a bit of money, though if that is not an issue, then the 8086K especially if you are not looking to overclock will give you single core to 5GHz.

Puget systems did a article on your very use case though at a Skylake/Threadripper level on Davinci and it looks like overall the Intel side is a bit better on Davinci, though they were testing Skylake versus Threadripper on Davinci, though comments made in the comments section did point to the 8700K/8086K doing a great job.

https://www.pugetsystems.com/labs/articles/DaVinci-Resolve-14-CPU-Performance-Skylake-X-vs-Threadripper-1063/
 
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