Advice on Computer Build for Premiere Pro/After Effects

If you look through recent forum posts, you'll find that we liked the 8700K because of its low cost and high clock speed, but we recently realized that it is limited to 16 PCIe lanes.  That will compromise its storage capability and how many M.2 and SATA ports it can support, and limit the number of memory slots. 

If you don't think you'll need to expand on storage down the road, then the 8700K is as fast as anything for Photoshop and After Effects, but not quite so good for Premiere Pro which is able to make use of multiple cores and threads.

It would be crazy to build a new NLE system nowadays without making use of the incredibly fast NVMe SSDs that can move 3.5Gb/s continuous.  This makes raid0 arrays redundant.  You can use the same drive for cache, and project files with bandwidth to spare.  So perhaps a decent SSD for OS and program files.  I am not familiar with the M.2 drive on your list.  The Samsung 960 Pro and EVO are more popular here.  I am using a pair of Samsung 960PRO 512Gb NVMe drives for the build I am waiting for, and will add a number of Samsung SSDs from an earlier build, as well as USB3 external HDDs for backup and archive.

The people who know a lot more than me on this forum, might tell you to go up a step with that GPU.  We'll wait for Bill etc. to contribute and say whether a GTX1070 might be a better fit.

I don't know what to say about the 8700K.  Z370 systems are so much cheaper to build than X299 or even Threadripper X399.  I don't know a lot about Ryzen.  The 1800X is cheaper than the 8700K, and other build costs would be similar, but the Ryzen 1800X has 24PCIe lanes.  I'd suggest looking though the Puget System benchmarks that will compare those CPUs and systems directly, and with the applications that interest you.

This is for Premiere Pro

I see the $500 Ryzen 1800X is a wee bit behind the $360 8700K when rendering, which tends to use all the cores/and threads available to it.  So clock speed is still the telling factor, even with two less cores.

If you read the article and others that cover more CPUs, you'll see that the much more expensive high end i9X and threadripper builds are noticeably faster for Premiere Pro, but that the 8700K will knock their socks off with more lightly threaded applications like Photoshop and After Effects.

https://www.pugetsystems.com/all_articles.php