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bahodgin
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October 28, 2017
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Moving from Mac to PC....

  • October 28, 2017
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Mostly 4k ( Panasonic GH4-GH5), Adobe Premiere 2017- 2018, Some Resolve 14 color correction... I have 4k monitors, 3 external 500 gb ssd drives, 20 tb of 7200 RPM SATA  Drives..... Could I start with this computer?...OMEN by HP Gaming Desktop Computer, AMD Ryzen 7 1800X, NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1080, 16GB RAM, 2TB hard drive, 512GB SSD, Windows 10     Processor: AMD Ryzen(TM) 7 1800X Processor, 8-Core, Liquid cooling, 3.60GHz;  Video graphics: NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1080 (8 GB GDDR5X dedicated);  Memory: 32GB DDR4-2400 SDRAM; Hard drive and solid-state drive: 2 TB 7200RPM SATA and 512 GB SSD; Windows 10 . Ports: Headphone/Microphone Combo, Microphone jack, 2 USB 3.0 (top), 2 USB 3.0 Type-C(TM) (top), 4 USB 3.0 (rear), 2 USB 2.0 (rear), DVI, HDMI, 3 DisplayPort, 10/100/1000 Base-T Network, and an HP 3-in-1 Media Card Reader, Keyboard and mouse: Comes with the HP USB wired keyboard with volume control and wired optical mouse.... Thanks for advice and comments.

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exile1972
Inspiring
October 28, 2017

I made the transition from Mac to PC about a year ago and yes, it was quite painful at first. I'm now a very happy PC user but I would second Bill's notion of fine tuning your PC once you get it up and running. The bloat of Windows can be staggering. In addition I found the system settings on the PC much more intimidating due to there being considerably more customization so do some web research and watch youtube videos to get up to speed. It's well worth it to switch but if you've been a long time mac user the learning curve when you switch is a bit brutal.

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bahodginAuthor
Participating Frequently
October 28, 2017

Exile192,

Thanks for your sage advice.... always good to hear from someone who has been thru the process. Never thought I would move over to the Darkside ( Ha Ha)  But my last project was a nightmare of rendering.... thus Hello PC!

Cheers,

Barry

Bill Gehrke
Bill Gehrke
Inspiring
October 28, 2017

Looks great to me except for one thing, it only has a 500 watt Bronze power supply  since the GTX 1080 specification requires a minimum 500 watt supply there is probably no or very limited expansion capability.

Also I guess that the OS/applications are loaded on the 500 GB M.2 PCIe SSD but since it is 500 GB I would use it also for your current Premiere Pro project and media files.  Then when done you can archive to the hard disk drive or other external drives .  I do not know the exact model M.2 SSD that they include but I have run the OS/applications and media and projects all off the same single Samsung 960 Pro drive and it worked great

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bahodginAuthor
Participating Frequently
October 28, 2017

Bill, Sincere thanks for taking your time to counsel a newbie. I also noticed the anemic 500 watt power supply... guess I'll have to upgrade to 850 watts or more after purchase.   This is uncharted territory since I've been a Mac guy since 1992. I was going to build a Windows machine but after pricing parts, could not build it for less. I know the Mac-Windows transition will be a big ole can of whoop ass... onward.

Bill Gehrke
Bill Gehrke
Inspiring
October 28, 2017

Good luck on your transition.  I once built a Hackintosh so I can feel for you.  By the way when you get your PC you really have to tune it and get riid of all the unecessary junk they automatically load for you if you want a high vperformance system,  You might want to use my Premiere Pro BenchMark (PPBM)  to check it out

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