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Help needed with PC specs for video editing

Forum|Forum|1 year ago
March 4, 2025
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Hi,

fessing up that I am clueless when it comes to computers and what is needed for video editing (the last time i edited anything was 24 odd years ago on a i mac). I have been asked by some clients to make some tuitional videos and I haven't a clue what specs I need when it comes to a PC. My current PC is about 10 years old and wont handle Premier Pro (which I have as part of my Adobe Package).

I have been to my local independent shop who quoted £2500 to build me one (my financier and wife) says for that price it had better be able to travel in space and time.

I then checked with my local PCworld Curries and have these specs. And I have absolutley no idea as to whether they are good enough to edit video or not. My video will be either shot on a Canon R7 and a DJI Osmo Pocket 3 both using 4K

Any help would be greatly appreciated. My budget is approx £1000

Specs:

- NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4060
- 8 GB GDDR6

RAM

- 16 GB DDR4 (3600 MHz)
- 128 GB maximum installable RAM

Processor

- AMD Ryzen 5 5500 Processor
- Hexa-core
- 3.6 GHz / 4.2 GHz
- 16 MB cache

Storage

1 TB SSD

Motherboard

ASUS PRIME A520M-A II

Thanks in advance for any and all help.

Rich

R

RjL190365

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My opinion on that build still stands as of right now, but for a somewhat different reason:

What I stated above for the Ryzen 5 5500 is especially true due not only to the PCIe 3.0 connection between the CPU and the GPU, but also due to the relatively low amount of VRAM on the RTX 4060. The lower the throughput between the CPU and GPU, the more VRAM you'll need on the discrete GPU in order to minimize that bottleneck. But with only 8 GB on that RTX 4060, depending on your project you may get depleted of discrete GPU VRAM relatively early in your renders, forcing the rendering onto that slower PCIe 3.0 bus. The Ryzen 7 5700X, on the other hand, uses a PCIe 4.0 connection between the CPU and GPU, so the performance degradation is reduced.

Peru Bob

Community Expert

If going with AMD, a Ryzan 7 would be a better choice than a Ryzen 5.

I'd also go with 64 GB RAM.

https://www.pugetsystems.com/solutions/video-editing-workstations/adobe-premiere-pro/hardware-recommendations/

richardk80445784Author

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Thanks for the information Peru Bob. I figured that the RAM was on the light side and if I went ahead with this PC was going to buy and install an additional 32GB but on your recommendation I will up that to 48GB. I have found a AMD Ryzan 7 but it is a little over my budget, especially with the extra RAM. Big learning curve this, I learned to edit with two video cassettes and a jog shuttle #feeling old.

R

RjL190365

Legend

Thanks for the reply, I think I understand:

How about this one:

Graphics card

- NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4060 Ti
- 8 GB GDDR6

RAM

- 16 GB DDR4 (3600 MHz) - will upgrade to 64 GB myself

Processor

- AMD Ryzen 7 5700X Processor
- Octa-core
- 3.4 GHz / 4.6 GHz
- 36 MB cache

That is the Ryzen 7 5700x no the plain one.

Its really no wonder my laptop couldn't handle this.

That's better, if that's all you can afford. Its overall performance would be roughly on par with that of my secondary mini-ITX build that's equipped with a Ryzen 5 7600X and only a Radeon RX 6700XT GPU; however, you do gain AV1 hardware encoding support if you're planning to use software that supports such encoding like DaVinci Resolve. Otherwise, for that amount of money you probably would've ended up with a grossly mismatched setup in terms of the relative component performance balance (either too little CPU or too little GPU).

John T Smith

Community Expert

https://community.adobe.com/t5/video-hardware/premiere-pro-hardware-articles-to-read-before-you-buy-or-build/m-p/11557686

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