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studiowing wrote
Your specs will work for editing 4k,
I don't see any specs listed. 
You could always check out Adobe's minimum specs page, but I suspect it could be a frustrating editing experience using hardware right on that low end limit:
Premiere Pro System Requirements for Mac OS and Windows
Building your own PC is not particularly hard, but don't be surprised if you have an issue or two when it comes to starting it the first time. There are lots of forums that can help out there though. The same thing with specs, but there sites like PartPicker.com that will tell you if your chosen components will work together, or just ask the lads here.
Bill, Harm Eric and others were a huge help when I built my current system five years ago, and I am hoping to get some guidance on a new build soon. These are exciting times to be building. In the last six months or so, we have seen incredibly fast NVMe M.2 SSDs with speeds up to 3.5Gb/s! Compare that to 5400rpm HDDs that could only manage 80 to 100Mb/s.
AMD have come out of the darkness (caused by the shadow Intel have cast over them) with their Ryzen CPUs which offer excellent value for money. Although I have seen reference that questioned how well AMD hardware works with PremPro. My problem is that when I have a new build finished, I no longer follow new hardware, so I am hopelessly out of touch when it comes to the next build, but we are lucky to have the lads on this forum who keep up to speed and can straighten us out with what does and doesn't work.
Now, this week, Intel have confirmed the rumours about a new generation of CPUs and a chipset to drive it (or the other way round). So lots to read up on and obsess about for a month or so until the next build is up and running. Then I'll forget about Tom's Hardware etc., and get on with using the software. 
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