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H Gordon
H Gordon
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December 9, 2018
Question

Please critique my upgrade

  • December 9, 2018
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Hello,

I've asked around a few forums but I didn't realize there was an Adobe forum here discussing hardware, so I'd love to get your opinions on my upgrade.  I can't spend a ton of money, my main use would be editing in Premiere with the ability to smoothly edit 4k.

Current (sad) specs:

Intel Core i7 CPU 920 @ 2.67 GHz 2.65 GHz

6 MB RAM

NVIDIA GeForce GT 710

Windows 7 64 (I will likely upgrade to 10)

2 1-TB Hard Disk Drives

Upgrade List:

AMD - Ryzen 7 2700X 3.7 GHz 8-Core Processor

Asus - ROG STRIX B450-F GAMING ATX AM4 Motherboard

G.Skill - Ripjaws V Series 32 GB (2 x 16 GB) DDR4-3200 Memory

Intel - 760p Series 512 GB M.2-2280 Solid State Drive

MSI - GeForce GTX 1070 Ti 8 GB Video Card

I'm thinking of adding another SSD for media files, I saw a good post on here about using the M2 for media files and a sata SSD for the OS.

Any suggestions?  This will run me around $1200.  My case and fans and PSU should handle this, so I can save money there.  I don't want to spend much more than that if possible.

Thanks for your help

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R Neil Haugen
R Neil Haugen
Legend
December 10, 2018

Talking about your media ... is it say ProRes or RED or Log ... or DSLR/drone/mirror-less H.264 long-GOP?

What effects do you use primarily? And how long are your sequences, how much media involved?

Now ... in general ... Puget Systems & SafeHarbor Computing (the the PPBM8 page's last shown data) show that the first priority is cores ... up to 10, more don't necessarily seem to add to the mix at this time ... and that those cores be as close to or above 4Ghz operating frequency as possible.

Next ... RAM ... high-speed, and as much per core as you can up to 10GB RAM/core.

Then ... a mobo that actually spreads out the ins/outs so there aren't logjams in moving data around, and that can be difficult to figure out ...

Then a GPU that will keep up with the load as sent by the above system.

The advice you've seen to have the OS/apps on a late-generation "standard" SSD is spot-on, save the m.2 connection (especially if you have only one) for project files & media.

Project files, cache, and media on SSD's, general storage and render-out to "spinning" discs, is one way to lay things out.

I'm not familiar with the AMD stuff so much, though there are systems out there that clearly do very well with the Adobe apps. Look through this forum and especially the info on the sites for the two firms I mention above. Maybe ADK computing also.

Neil

Everyone's mileage always varies ...
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