Hi,Please can anyone suggest PC configuration to handle 4K (minimum 2 tracks on Screen) Video Editing?I can see following available for sale, is this good enough? 2x 6-Core Intel Xeon E5-2667 2.90 GHz Processors32 GB DDR3 1600 MHz RAM1x 500GB SSD 2x 1TB HDD (RAID Configuration) XFX R7-260X AMD Graphics Card 2GB GDDR5 CPU 12 Cores. is this enough?How much RAM / Type and Speed is required?What should be the HDD / SSD Read & Write Speed for 4K?GPU Suggestion? I'm using Premiere Pro CS6, should I upgrade to CC? I'm looking for a minimum / budget configuration. Will appreciate any suggestions / advice.Thanks in advance.

I have been talking to someone in another forum about his planned 2021 build... this total before any shipping/taxes is just under $2,000 US 53010 Core 3.7GHzhttps://www.newegg.com/intel-core-i9-10900k-core-i9-10th-gen/p/N82E16819118122 https://www.intel.com/content/www/us/en/products/processors/core/i9-processors/i9-10900k.html Integrated Intel UHD Graphics 630 use shared memory up to 64Gig - limited to half installed ram17064 Gig RamSee further on for non-ECC ram If not buy RTX2060 and turn UHD Graphics 630 off buy twice for 128 Gig Ram120FCLGA1200 Motherboardhttps://www.newegg.com/p/N82E16813119303?Item=N82E16813119303100500Gig boot M.2https://www.amazon.com/Seagate-FireCuda-Performance-Internal-ZP1000GM30001/dp/B07ZPRRSPX55500Gig temp/output SSDhttps://www.newegg.com/western-digital-blue-500gb/p/N82E16820250087 Temporary cache files and all output video files and ISO to burn a disc901T Input/backup SSDhttps://www.newegg.com/western-digital-blue-1tb/p/N82E16820250088 Input video & sound & picture files, and backup MS Office document folder103Full Tower Casehttps://www.newegg.com/p/N82E16811147053?Item=N82E16811147053 Comes with 4 fans to keep the inside cool120Power 850watthttps://www.newegg.com/cooler-master-mwe-gold-850-v2-mpe-8501-afaag-us-850w/p/N82E16817171180 https://www.newegg.com/tools/power-supply-calculator/ - not counting case fans 500 watt A power supply should not be run at capacity, so I decided on 850 watt 'Gold"35CPU coolerhttps://www.newegg.com/cooler-master-hyper-212-black-edition-rr-212s-20pk-r1/p/N82E168351032785Thermal Pastehttps://www.newegg.com/arctic-silver-as5-3-5g/p/N82E1683510000723DVD Writerhttps://www.newegg.com/asus-model-drw-24f1st-d-blk-b-as-dvd-burner/p/N82E1682713530556Keyboard + Mousehttps://www.newegg.com/microsoft-comfort-desktop-5050-pp4-00001-usb-rf-wireless/p/N82E16823109382145Win10 Pro OEMhttps://www.newegg.com/microsoft-windows-10-pro-64-bit/p/N82E16832588491360nVidia RTX2060https://www.newegg.com/zotac-geforce-rtx-2060-zt-t20600k-10m/p/N82E168145004951912 Use an HDMI connection to monitor

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Video Editing PC for 4K - Hardware and Performance

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December 16, 2020
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Hi,

Please can anyone suggest PC configuration to handle 4K (minimum 2 tracks on Screen) Video Editing?

I can see following available for sale, is this good enough?

2x 6-Core Intel Xeon E5-2667 2.90 GHz Processors
32 GB DDR3 1600 MHz RAM
1x 500GB SSD
2x 1TB HDD (RAID Configuration)
XFX R7-260X AMD Graphics Card 2GB GDDR5

CPU 12 Cores. is this enough?

How much RAM / Type and Speed is required?

What should be the HDD / SSD Read & Write Speed for 4K?

GPU Suggestion?

I'm using Premiere Pro CS6, should I upgrade to CC?

I'm looking for a minimum / budget configuration. Will appreciate any suggestions / advice.

Thanks in advance.

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John T Smith

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I have been talking to someone in another forum about his planned 2021 build... this total before any shipping/taxes is just under $2,000 US

530	10 Core 3.7GHz	https://www.newegg.com/intel-core-i9-10900k-core-i9-10th-gen/p/N82E16819118122
		https://www.intel.com/content/www/us/en/products/processors/core/i9-processors/i9-10900k.html
		Integrated Intel UHD Graphics 630 use shared memory up to 64Gig - limited to half installed ram
170	64 Gig Ram	See further on for non-ECC ram
		If not buy RTX2060 and turn UHD Graphics 630 off buy twice for 128 Gig Ram
120	FCLGA1200 Motherboard	https://www.newegg.com/p/N82E16813119303?Item=N82E16813119303
100	500Gig boot M.2	https://www.amazon.com/Seagate-FireCuda-Performance-Internal-ZP1000GM30001/dp/B07ZPRRSPX
55	500Gig temp/output SSD	https://www.newegg.com/western-digital-blue-500gb/p/N82E16820250087
		Temporary cache files and all output video files and ISO to burn a disc
90	1T Input/backup SSD	https://www.newegg.com/western-digital-blue-1tb/p/N82E16820250088
		Input video & sound & picture files, and backup MS Office document folder
103	Full Tower Case	https://www.newegg.com/p/N82E16811147053?Item=N82E16811147053
		Comes with 4 fans to keep the inside cool
120	Power 850watt	https://www.newegg.com/cooler-master-mwe-gold-850-v2-mpe-8501-afaag-us-850w/p/N82E16817171180
		https://www.newegg.com/tools/power-supply-calculator/ - not counting case fans 500 watt
		A power supply should not be run at capacity, so I decided on 850 watt 'Gold"
35	CPU cooler	https://www.newegg.com/cooler-master-hyper-212-black-edition-rr-212s-20pk-r1/p/N82E16835103278
5	Thermal Paste	https://www.newegg.com/arctic-silver-as5-3-5g/p/N82E16835100007
23	DVD Writer	https://www.newegg.com/asus-model-drw-24f1st-d-blk-b-as-dvd-burner/p/N82E16827135305
56	Keyboard + Mouse	https://www.newegg.com/microsoft-comfort-desktop-5050-pp4-00001-usb-rf-wireless/p/N82E16823109382
145	Win10 Pro OEM	https://www.newegg.com/microsoft-windows-10-pro-64-bit/p/N82E16832588491
360	nVidia RTX2060	https://www.newegg.com/zotac-geforce-rtx-2060-zt-t20600k-10m/p/N82E16814500495
1912		Use an HDMI connection to monitor

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RjL190365

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The problem with that build is this:

The mainstream Intel CPUs' memory controller does not support ECC or registered RAM. Therefore, there is a compatibility issue between the RAM and the motherboard. RDIMMs are keyed differently from UDIMMs. The 400-series motherboards only support UDIMMs.

John T Smith

Community Expert

Hmm... this may be a problem... I went to ASUS and they do not list ANY ram for this motherboard

I'm going to have to do some searching to find out who else has a list

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non-ECC ram is more $$ but I found this that is compatible

213 https://www.newegg.com/g-skill-64gb-288-pin-ddr4-sdram/p/N82E16820232939

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RjL190365

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Not good enough, I'm afraid. CS6 does not support OpenCL at all in Windows. Only CUDA, which no non-Nvidia GPU supports at all. This will permanently lock CS6 to the software-only rendering mode, which is what you don't want.

Second, if you're going to get a newer version of Premiere Pro (Creative Cloud version, of which the 2019/13.1.5 version is now the oldest that remains officially available to Creative Cloud subscribers, which is now the only official means of getting any of Adobe's professional content creation programs), that hardware is now officially too old to be supported. The Sandy Lake-E/EP CPUs are now more than seven years old at this point, while the Rx 200 series GPUs are now almost as old as the CPUs themselves. Worse, those dual 6-core Xeons put together are still weaker than a current-gen mainstream-desktop-platform 8-core CPU-powered PC. Plus, two 6-core CPUs do not perform as well as a single 12-core CPU of even the same vintage because of the latencies in communication between the two physical CPU sockets.

In other words, that PC is largely a waste of money regardless of the version of Premiere Pro that you currently have access to.

MechanizeAuthor

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Hi RjL190365,

Your reply makes total sense to me.

I thought these 2x 6-cores will be good enough.

Can you recommend a workstation (not very expensive) to serve the purpose?

What GPU (Cuda) should I buy, I'm on a budget but I'm willing to spend on a GPU which can help CPUs handling 4K editing.

What should be the Read / Write speed of HDDs / SSDs

Thanks for your help and rpely.

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RjL190365

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We cannot recommend a combination of parts for your planned workstation without you specifying a particular total budget (in your country's currency).

What the above sentence means is that if your budget is low, you will likely end up with either too weak of an overall package or a package with a severely lopsided component balance (a decently powerful CPU but a woefully weak GPU). In the worst case, the only machine that has new-enough components to be technically supported in newer versions of Premiere Pro might very well have components that are much too weak all around.

As for the read/write speed of an internal drive, HDDs cannot sustain more than about 200 MB/s on the outer tracks in either reads or writes - and when asked to perform both operations at the same time, they cannot (they can only read or write, but not both simultaneously). As a result, the maximum practical disk I/O throughput of a typical HDD is no better than about 100 MB/s - and this rate falls off significantly when the disk becomes over half full, all the way down to less than 40 MB/s!

SATA SSDs are better, but they can still only reach about 250-ish MB/s in simultaneous I/O throughput (or 500+ MB/s when transferring in one direction at a time). This is all due to the limitations of the SATA interface itself.

PCI-e (or NVMe) SSDs, on the other hand, can perform both reads and writes simultaneously.

With all that said, you will want a newer system that has one or two PCI-e capable m.2 sockets for m.2 SSDs, and I would also recommend that you get two m.2 NVMe SSDs of two different capacities - one 250 or 500 GB SSD for the OS and programs, one 1 TB or larger for your working media and projects. A third SATA SSD of a smallish-capacity is also nice to have for cache/scratch files. And depending on the CPU, for your GPU a GeForce GTX 1650 SUPER is a good starting point; however, aim for an RTX if you can afford one. Avoid older GPUs that are either outdated or obsolete (and yes, this also applies to budget low-end GPUs that are still available new) since they will not have much usable life left in them.