Dell Computer Recommendation for Premiere Pro

[jamesthomsen]

Over the past 9 years I have been travelling constantly and have used a Laptop for my video and photo editing.  I have now returned to a fixed home and I want to buy a desktop computer.  We live in a small town and there is excellent service from a local shop for Dell.

Looking at the Dell website the OptiPlex 7060 tower looks good.

But it is very confusing (computers are not my strong point.)  If anyone has a recommendation, that would be great!  I can do the customization to make it best for video editing, including a fair amount of 4K.  The only other main use is for photos, Lightroom and PhotoShop.

Thank you! 

Jim

[Peru Bob]

There is some useful information about hardware here:

https://www.pugetsystems.com/recommended/Recommended-Systems-for-Adobe-Premiere-Pro-CC-143/Hardware-...

[Diddy82]

Which customization of the OptiPlex 7960 are you looking at?  I just looked at the one with an Intel i7-8700 6-core cpu, 16GB ram and 256GB NVMe drive.  The problem is that it’s advised to have multiple storage drives and that’s not listed as an option, so I don’t know how many drives can be connected.  At a minimum, you should have an SSD for your O/S and programs and all of your media on a larger capacity SSD or NVMe (500gb+) or a larger (and cheaper) hard drive. 

[jamesthomsen]

Thanks,

That's one of my concerns.  The Primary drive can be a SSD (1 TB) and the second/third are only offered as hard disk drives. could store the OS/Program files AND my current project on the Primary drive?  Or is this too much of a compromise?

I would get the i7 8700K 6 core and 64 GB memory (that seems to be recommended for 4K)

Also the GeForce GTX 1060 Video card.

[Diddy82]

Sorry for the delay, I missed your reply.

yes, I think that would give you good performance.  It’s recommended to keep the media and the scratch/cache files on a separate drive from the O/S and programs, but I don’t know how big of a difference it actually makes.  Puget Systems, linked above, says it makes a big difference.  I do know that everthing is much quicker on an SSD though.

If it offers you the option of getting a second or third HD, that’s good.  That means you could always buy an SSD down the road and plug it into one of the spare SATA and power connectors.  It’s easy to do.  A quick YouTube tutorial would show you how.  SSD drives and regular HDDs connect the same way. 

[jamesthomsen]

Thank You!!