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May 6, 2022
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Building my first 4K editing PC - is it ok?

  • May 6, 2022
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Hi

I am mostly editing HD and 4K footage - SONY, PANASONIC, RED etc. I do the grading in Premiere PRO, sometimes use After Effects. How do you rate this build and what is the bottle neck in this setup? Is the GPU enough for smooth playback and work?

CPU - AMD RyzenTM 9 5900X protsessor (12c24t, kuni 4.80GHz, 64MB)
https://www.amd.com/en/products/cpu/amd-ryzen-9-5900x

GPU - GeForce RTX™ 3060 Ti GAMING X 8G LHR
https://www.msi.com/Graphics-Card/GeForce-RTX-3060-Ti-GAMING-X-8G-LHR

MOTHERBOARD - GIGABYTE X570S AORUS ELITE
https://www.gigabyte.com/Motherboard/X570S-AORUS-ELITE-rev-10#kf

RAM - CORSAIR MEMORY DDR4 VEGEANGE LPX 64GB3200 (2*32GB) CL16
https://www.corsair.com/us/en/Categories/Products/Memory/VENGEANCE-LPX/p/CMK64GX4M4E3200C16

OS SYSTEM - KINGSTON 250GB NV1 M.2 2280 NVMe SSD SNVS250G
https://www.kingston.com/en/ssd/nv1-nvme-pcie-ssd

ADOBE APPS CACHE, SCRATCH - SAMSUNG EVO PLUS 970 NVME 500GB
https://www.samsung.com/ee/memory-storage/nvme-ssd/970-evo-plus-nvme-m-2-ssd-500gb-mz-v7s500bw/https://www.samsung.com/ee/memory-storage/nvme-ssd/970-evo-plus-nvme-m-2-ssd-1tb-mz-v7s1t0bw/

VIDEO EDITING FILES, VIDEOS, MUSIC - SAMSUNG EVO PLUS 970 NVME 2TB
https://www.samsung.com/ee/memory-storage/nvme-ssd/970-evo-plus-nvme-m-2-ssd-2tb-mz-v7s2t0bw/

PROJECTS ARCHIVE - SEAGATE BARRACUDA 5400 RPM 2 x 4TB RAID
https://www.amazon.com/Seagate-Barracuda-Internal-3-5-Inch-ST4000DM004/dp/B071WLPRHN


POWER - FRACTAL DESIGN 760W
https://www.fractal-design.com/products/power-supplies/ion/ion-platinum-760w/black/


COOLER & FANS - Be quiet! Cooler CPU Dark Rock 4, 3x Arctic P12 PWM PST

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Legend
May 9, 2022

A couple of caveats to Andy1968's suggestion:

 

  • The advantage applies only with a non-F Intel CPU and having the integrated Intel UHD Graphics force-enabled. If you get an F CPU (which has its integrated graphics permanently disabled at chip manufacturing level due to defects), or if you do not force-enable the integrated Intel UHD Graphics in the BIOS/EFI setup, the advantages would be almost completely wiped out compared to your original choice of a Ryzen 9 5900X.
  • I do not recommend a RAID disk at all for backups. In a typical "RAID 0" configuration, there is absolutely no redundancy whatsoever - and worse, if one of the drives fail, the entire contents of the entire RAID 0 array gets permanently lost, and is extremely difficult and extremely expensive to recover, losing years abd years of so-called "backups" forever. You'd be better off using large-capacity single HDDs for storage and backups. (True, all data is "lost" when that single disk fails, but at least the odds of a successful data recovery are much, much better with single disks than with any RAID 0 array.)
  • You may also want to upgrade the GPU to a GeForce RTX 3080 for that planned PC. Prices for the 3080 may still be on the high side right now, but at least the $900 to $1000 price for it is much more sane than it had been for many, many months.

 

Other than these changes, looks OK.

Inspiring
May 9, 2022

I would go with an Intel Alder Lake CPU. The Quick Sync is worth the price of admission. Some variations of H.264/265 can choke a 12 core CPU but an M1 Apple Chip and Intel Alder Lake CPU can play them back. The video demonstrates Quick Sync and Nvenc in action. It is good to have both 

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1L-erwmRxAU

Ann Bens
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May 6, 2022

Moved to hardware forum.