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piotrb70969111
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March 15, 2023
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Help in building PC for Premiere Pro

  • March 15, 2023
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Hi,
I aim to build my first PC for 4K video editing suited for Premiere Pro (H.264 and 265) and sometimes After Effects. I’m really tight on budget, I even think of buying some second hand components. I consider upgrading PC within next year or two (RAM and GPU). As it follows, I want to create a solid base.
I tried to build a setup basing on Pudget articles.
Could you please give it a look and tell me what to change?
Prices are from polish market, I changed PLN to USD.
CPU: i7 13700k  - 395$ (used)
Motherboard: MB660 DS3H – 130$ (new)
RAM: 1x G. SKILL Aegis, DDR4, 32GB – 80$ (new)
GPU: RTX 3060 Ti 8GB – 340$ (used)
PSU: Corsair HX750W – 195$ (new)
Case: 100$ (new)
Windows 11 PRO OEM: 160$
~1400$

I have storage in my current PC (500GB SSD + 1TB m2) so it can be excluded for the seutp.
Right now it’s around 400$ over my budget but I don’t know if it makes sense and where to get any lower than that consider possible update within 1-2 years. Or maybe I should just buy second-hand PC with older components but there I just cannot tell what components should I look at considering all benchmarks were made for previous versions of Premiere Pro.

Is there any difference in Premiere Pro and After Effect whether I use “k” processor and “kf” considering I have a separate graphics card?


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RjL190365
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March 18, 2023

I would change the motherboard and RAM. That particular B660 motherboard does not receive particularly good reviews to begin with, and will throttle back your CPU's performance significantly because its power delivery components can barely support a 12th-gen i5. 

And why did you choose a single stick of DDR4 RAM for that system? Such a setup will run in single-channel-only memory controller mode, thereby seriously starving the CPU of memory bandwidth and throughput. That will severely handicap your CPU's performance, especially when combined with a less-than-ideal motherboard.

 

The end result is that this planned build, with all of its performance bottlenecks, will be no faster than a 4-year-old 9th-gen 8-core i7 CPU-based PC build with middling components for its vintage.

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    piotrb70969111Author
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    March 20, 2023

    Thanks for answer,
    to be honest, I haven't followed PC related stuff for over a decade so I'm a bit out of date. This proposition was my attempt to put something together following adobe, pudget and some youtubers guidelines benchmarks but, I guess, I failed miserably 😛
    That's why I asked there for help, I don't know where else should I ask. Are there any other forums worth visiting? Pudget doesn't answer me since my budget is like twice below what they recommend and I'm definitely not their client.

    I chose 1x RAM in order to go for 64 and later 128 as I consider an update within next 1-2 years. 
    As I understand, I should try go with 2x32 from the start, why is it important?
    G.Skill Ripjaws V, DDR4, 64 GB, 2666MHz, CL19 should do the job?
    In case of a motherboard, I didn't realize it has that kind of impact.  Should I go for Z segment, like Z690UD? What should I look at?

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