PC equipment for multicam editing

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May 16, 2017
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I'm looking at a new PC, and have a limited budget. Current one (a 2012 intel i5) is plaguing me with choppy, stuttering editing issues especially with 3 camera multicam edits. I'm typically using 1080p H.264 format. I've tried using proxies but that's not much help so I've decided to step up to a newer pc and likely a RAID drive system eventually (likely a RAID 10).

I've seen a PC for $1000 equipped as follows: I-7 7700k (seventh gen) quad core 3.6ghz with 24 GB ram, a 256gb ssd + 1tb 7200 hd, 8gb AMD Radeon RX480 graphics card. Has 2-USB 3.1 (that's one c-type and one a-type) plus two hdmi ports.

Among the many things I'm hoping the community will offer guidance on is confirmation that the Radeon RX480 will take advantage of openCL. If I have to, I may be able to switch out to (for $200 extra) to an 8GB NVidia GeForce GTX 1070 graphics card to take advantage of CUDA, but, given my limited budget, maybe at another time. It will also depend on what I hear from the community (for example, if the original PC configuration would be significantly improved by switching to the NVidia card).

Thanks in advance to all that offer feedback.

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Bill Gehrke

Inspiring

Rather than the RX 480 for the same price you can buy a GTX 1060 6GB SC which works great for me.

RoninEdits

Inspiring

the RX 480/580 is typically $30-60 cheaper, and others can also claim they work great for them. recommending nvidia>amd without any reason comes across as bias.

Bill Gehrke

Inspiring

Ronin, thanks for the comments but my favorite EVGA GTX 1060 SC is the 06G-P4-6163-KR is $249.99 at Newegg. When I search Newegg for the RX 480 8GB the lowest price I could find was $281.99.
So I do not understand your $30 to $60 dollar cheaper. I seriously doubt if the RX 480 will be as fast as the GTX 1060. I have not received any PPBM results yet on the RX series.

RoninEdits

Inspiring

if that's your budget, you may want to look for a computer with an AMD ryzen 6 or 8 core cpu. they will be around the same cost, possibly cheaper for the 6 core, but offer more performance with the extra cpu cores.

from the limited benchmarks i've seen, the rx 480 should perform ok, similar to a gtx 1060. you would just have to be aware of any software/plugins you might use that is cuda/nvidia only.

tytytylerrAuthor

Participant

Thanks Ronin for your response. Since reading your suggestion, I've searched for setups using the AMD Ryzen cpu. I have not found any that cost less or even the same as the intel i7 configuration I described. Do you have a source that can offer good pricing?

RoninEdits

Inspiring

a ryzen 6 core cpu costs around $220-250 and the 8 core starts at $330, vs $340 for the intel i7 you list. the rest of the components that make up the computer will be the same or similarly priced. so a ryzen system shouldn't be too far off that $1k i7 pc you found. it may be more difficult to find in an off-the-shelf pc, as intel usually has deals with pc vendors to lock out amd. there are lots of pc build shops online, and perhaps some local to you. but i don't have first hand experience with any to recommend.

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