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[Victory Pete]

I am going to order a Dell 5820 and I have a lot of options. I could use some recommendations. 

Precision 5820 High Performance Tower Desktop Workstation | Dell USA

[Victory Pete]

Yes, I thank Peru Bob for posting a very helpful link. Also Nathan at Puget Systems

[Peru Bob]

Go for 64 GB RAM with that processor.

[Victory Pete]

I would like to get the DDR5 Ram but apparently it is not available right now. I dont see the sense in going for broke on an expensive machine only to put in DDR4

[Victory Pete]

This isnt a custom build it got my attention

XPS Desktop with up to 12th Gen Intel Processor | Dell USA

[Andy 1968]

Any system with an Alder Lake CPU and RTX 3000 series GPU will work just fine.You could buy a Dell, HP or Lenovo computer with the same CPU and GPU. You can also buy systems from Newegg with the same configuration. You do realize Dell, Lenovo and HP do not make computer parts. They buy parts from various suppliers and assemble them. The motherboard from a Dell desktop computer from 3 years ago could have the same motherboard as the computer I custom built for myself. 

[Victory Pete]

So are you saying you will build be me a PC?

[Andy 1968]

I am letting you know Dell, HP and Lenovo will all work about the same. Most the computers at Newegg and Best Buy will also work just fine. A Gigabyte Z690 motherboard is a Gigabyte Z690 motherboard whether it be in a Dell, HP  or Lenovo. For the most part the Z690 chipset is a Z690 chipset. It does not matter if it is on an MSI motherboard or an Asus motherboard. 

As I stated from the beginning any system with an Alder Lake CPU and RTX 3000 series GPU should work just fine.

[Victory Pete]

These are the specs to the Dell I bought yesterday.

Processor

12th Gen Intel® Core™ i9-12900K processor (16-Core, 30MB Cache, 3.2GHz to 5.2GHz )

Operating System
 

Windows 11 Pro, English

Memory

128GB DDR5, 4x 32GB, at 3600MHz

Graphics Card

NVIDIA® GeForce RTX™ 3080 Ti 12GB GDDR6X

Hard Drive

2TB M.2 PCIe NVME SSD (Boot) + 2TB SATA 7200RPM HDD (Storage)

Optical Drive

Tray load DVD Drive (Reads and Writes to DVD/CD)

Chassis Options

Black 750W Night Sky Bezel Chassis

Cooling Option

Performance CPU liquid cooling

Wireless

Killer™ Wi-Fi 6 1675 (2x2) 802.11ax Wireless and Bluetooth 5.2

[Peru Bob]

Let us know how it works out for you when you get it up and running.

I'm curious -- how much did it cost?

[Victory Pete]

Way more than I had planned, but my current HP Pavillion which is still working quite well, cost me $1200 10 years ago, so I figured on taking it up a notch, or 2, or 3, or 5. Yes, $5200 with tax. I feel good about this though, not really any way to go any higher.

[Andy 1968]

If you can afford a 12th generation i9 and an RTX 3080ti it would be money well spent but even a 12th generation i5 and RTX 3060 would have been a good computer for video editing. 

[Victory Pete]

I hope to get 10 years out of this investment

[Victory Pete]

I have had the XPS 8950 now for 2 weeks. It is quite the computer. I like Windows 11, I wasnt sure I would. It is super fast and gets great results in Bench testing except in one area, the DDR5 Ram. I have 128G of it but get low scores because of the latency, I have seen it as high as 90 ns. I have yet to try any work on Premier Pro yet. I just bought a 2nd GoPro and will be giving it a try soon.

[Andy 1968]

Make sure to try Quick Sync and Nvenc both. I think Premiere Pro favors the Alder Lake iGPU.