Best system requirements

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September 19, 2020
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I would like some help in deciding what to upgrade/purchase a new system to run Premiere & After effects. Currently I have an i5 2 core 4 thread 2.7 i5-4570TE, 32 gig memory. GTX 1050ti 4gb graphics card, 2 500 gig hdd's 7200rpm's.

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RjL190365

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As it stands right now, you need both a new CPU and faster disks (SSDs, not HDDs) in order to run Premiere Pro and After Effects adequately. Not only your disks are sluggish by modern standards, but your CPU just doesn't have enough horsepower to do anything particularly well (too few cores, too low of a clock speed even with only one core being used).

Randall

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RjL190365

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For a starting point:

Since you're going to perform video editing quite frequently, it is best not to overspend on any single component. However, your current storage is seriously lacking in performance - so much that it will bottleneck the performance of most of the newer CPUs on the market.

With that factored in, I will be suggesting either an AMD Ryzen 7 3700X or an Intel i7-10700K (10th-Generation) CPU with a motherboard that's compatible with either of those respective CPUs (a B550 or an X570 motherboard for the 3700X, Z490 for the 10700K) as a starting point: Both CPUs have 8 cores and 16 threads, plus much better single-core performance than your current i5-4570TE (which IMHO was way too expensive for a low-performance 2-core/4-thread CPU that's now seven years old). And since you already have 32 GB of RAM in your current system, don't go for less than that amount; however, you will need DDR4 RAM for either of those two newer CPUs that I am suggesting because neither CPU platform is compatible at all with your existing DDR3 RAM.

And after all that you cannot afford a new GPU, then reuse your existing GTX 1050 Ti until you save up enough money for something like an RTX 3070 that's due to be shipping some time next month.

And don't forget to pick up at least two SSDs: one 2.5" SATA SSD (500 GB) for the OS and programs, a larger-capacity (1 TB or larger) m.2 PCI-E NVMe SSD for your projects and media.

Hope this helps,

Randall

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SsscatmanAuthor

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thank you for your help.

I did purchase a BX80684I99900K Intel Core i9-9900K Coffee Lake 8-Core/16-Thread Processor & motherboard, gtx 1660 Super 6gb XLR8 graphics card, added 64 gb memory. 1-Samsung 970 EVO Plus 500GB NVMe M.2 Internal SS, 1 tb ssd

... now my issue is that it takes over 4 hours to render a 75 minute presentation. ughhh

I created 8 transitions, I created a 6 sec project in AE and imported it into PP.

I am wondering if my third party add-ons might be the culprit for AE & PP

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RjL190365

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That could be an issue, where some of the third-party plugins might have been only single-core aware.

And also note that the three latest driver versions of the Intel HD/UHD Graphics drivers broke QuickSync hardware encoding when used with a discrete GPU. Plus, by default the integrated Intel graphics is disabled whenever a discrete GPU is installed. As a result, you have been stuck with software-only decoding with that newer PC until version 14.5 of PP was released. And only then will the GTX 1660 Super be utilized for timeline playback of H.264 and HEVC video sources.

And since version 14.x, you would have needed to upgrade your system anyway, since the older Haswell CPUs are no longer supported for hardware rendering, decoding or encoding due to its limitation of 1.6 GB of system RAM being utilized as VRAM (14.x now requires 2 GB or more {4 GB or more recommended} dedicated VRAM to run properly).