Budget Build for basic to moderate video editing.

[BuddyBuddah]

Hey forum. I'm building a budget Pc for editing videos for YouTube. I'm torn between a pre-built corei5 Pc from Matrix warehouse for R5500 and a build from Rebeltech which consists of:

Cpu: i3 4170. R1865
Mobo:Gigabyte H81M-S1. R785
Ram: Kingston hyperx 4gb cl9. R411
Hdd: WD cb 1tb. R753
Case: cooler Master e343. R453
Psu: seasonic Sii12 530w. R838
Total: + delivery. R5460

The matrix build (I don't know the specifics)

Cpu: core i5
Mobo: h81
Ram: 2gb
Psu: 450w
Case: zixxa atx
Total : R5500

Which one is best? I will invest in a Gpu and an ssd sometime next year but I want to make HD videos(<10mins) in the meantime. Anyone who has purchased a matrix build please share your experience

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Hey forum. I'm building a budget Pc for editing videos for YouTube. I'm torn between a pre-built corei5 Pc from Matrix warehouse for R5500 and a build from Rebeltech which consists of:

Cpu: i3 4170. R1865
Mobo:Gigabyte H81M-S1. R785
Ram: Kingston hyperx 4gb cl9. R411
Hdd: WD cb 1tb. R753
Case: cooler Master e343. R453
Psu: seasonic Sii12 530w. R838
Total: + delivery. R5460

The matrix build (I don't know the specifics)

Cpu: core i5
Mobo: h81
Ram: 2gb
Psu: 450w
Case: zixxa atx
Total : R5500

Which one is best? I will invest in a Gpu and an ssd sometime next year but I want to make HD videos(<10mins) in the meantime. Anyone who has purchased a matrix build please share your experience

Dunno about Matrix Warehouse, but you'll have a bad time trying to edit videos on 2 Gb of RAM. 4Gb is is going to be difficult enough, 2 Gb is just looking for trouble.

[PsychoFish]

So a couple of questions, which application will you be using to edit the videos? Which OS are you intending to run? What would the average length and/or size of the video file be?

[Blazzok]

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Hi and welcome!

For prebuilt PC's, rather look at www.evetech.co.za. Unfortunately I don't really have experience with video editing so I can't really comment on the requirements.

However, for comparison, this is what you can get at evetech for similar pricing/specs:

i3 Skylake R4899

i5 Haswell R5899

What is also nice about evetech is that you can take a build and change components as you like.
Hopefully someone else can pitch in regarding requirements for video editing

[BuddyBuddah]

I'm really liking the i5 deal. Didn't even know about evetech until now thanks.

[BuddyBuddah]

I will be using Windows. I was thinking about using Adobe premier suggestions are welcome.

[BuddyBuddah]

I want to make short clips 10mins max

[PsychoFish]

Dude, just go i5 with 8GB RAM and you'll be ok...

Consider an SSD and/or a RAID0 drive setup to get maximum performance

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Dude, just go i5 with 8GB RAM and you'll be ok...

Consider an SSD and/or a RAID0 drive setup to get maximum performance

^^This.

Also, I was curious about the i3 vs. i5, so I asked my brother, who's a video editor for a living, how much CPU's you need. His answer: as many as will fit in the box. Granted, he does it on very white machines that are overpowered and overpriced, so he might be biased.

[PsychoFish]

^^This.

Also, I was curious about the i3 vs. i5, so I asked my brother, who's a video editor for a living, how much CPU's you need. His answer: as many as will fit in the box. Granted, he does it on very white machines that are overpowered and overpriced, so he might be biased.

Yeah, I know a lot of people in the film, TV and audio arena and depending on the application and the size of the content you can easily prep yourself for i7's/Xeons, 32GB RAM and SSDs in RAID0/RAID10 configurations...