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Hello Hardware Experts,
First post on the forum.
I am building a new editing machine as editing with my laptop (Surface Pro) is impossible.
Sadly, I am on a budget as I need to also buy a good screen, so I was seeking for some advice on where to better allocate the $$.
This is the planned set-up. Budget $500
CPU: AMD Ryzen 5 2400G
Note: As I am on a budget I won't have money for a dedicated GPU so I think this is the best option, I am planning to upgrade it later for a Ryzen7 with GPU.
GPU: RX Vega 11 (integrated on the CPU)
RAM: DDR4 8GB 2666mhz
NVMe: 256GB -> For Media Cache, Proxys, Scratch
SSD 1: 256GB -> Project and Source Media
SSD 2: 256GB -> OS and Applications
HDD: 2TB -> Archived Projects, Media and other docs
The big question I have is with the ram: Should I invest in getting 16GB of ram even though I am locating the cache proxys in an NVMe?
I have read in a lot of places that 8GB could do and to be honest, RAM is much more expensive than SSD or NVMe at this point.
What do you think of the set-up? What will you change?
I am not looking for amazing render times, my main goal is to have premiere playback not hanging and if possible playing at full res. My heavy editing is on Warp Stabilizer, NeatVideo on a lot of the clips, some color grading, and basic audio editing.
I shoot using Canon DSLR and encode on h264 1080p.
Thanks in advance for your help!
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With the newest version of Premiere Pro, 16GB or more RAM is now required just for it to even run at all.