CPU for Video Editting and Games

[FrangaFry]

Howdy folks, looking for some folks experience with the latest crop of Intel 1151 based CPUs'

Old man has asked that i give his PC a bit of TLC - he's given me a budget of 1k to do some magic ........

He has a decently cooled Antec case, 650W PSU and a couple of 1TB 7500rpm HDD's that I can use (rest needs scrapping I rek'n) ............... so I have been scratching around for best bits for his buck......

Given his focus is on Video Editing with Pinnacle being his software of choice (he does like to kill Nazis and snipe towel heads though ........... strewth, did I just say such a PC inappropriate thing.)

Anyway, I am thinking of spending some decent coin on a half decent MB (GA-H170-HD3) with an Intel i7-6000 (16GB of DDR4) and a lower end GPU (NVIDIA GTX 950). Budget is pretty much done at that point (so probably have to kick in a few hundy for some more HDD, cooler and Optical drives - his old ones are IDE .....).

So, to the question: For video editing (home movies - but he does tend to get a bit flashy) 1080p - should I top end the CPU (quad core - 8 threads, 8mb cache blah blah blah) and save on the GPU - or should I just stick with the the i5-6x range and go higher end GPU (ram is much of a muchness so I can gather with DDR 4 at the moment).

Any video editting guru's out there who could point a brother in the right direction (god damn, I should know this stuff ..................... *sheepish grin*)

Thanks for answering ......

[Smitty]

.. I built another PC late last year
and yeah I also use PINNACLE for all my video editing

at the time I looked at CPUs and GPUs and ended up with a combo of i5-4690. 16gb ram and a Radeon R9 270 card with 2gb
on a Z97 board. It hums :)

But I spent a bit more and the best thing I did was ...upgrade the monitor to a 27" ACER jobbie (Officeworks had them on special for less than $300)

[aussiebbq]

Bit over budget but that's Motherboard (always been an Asus man), RAM, better CPU (4GHZ vs 3.4) 16GB RAM, 256GB SSD and better graphics card. Should be fine for quite a while and laugh off anything you can throw at it.

http://au.pcpartpicker.com/p/tQkj3C

[FrangaFry]

Thanks for the replies.

Re: SSD - probably won't add this to the parts list at the moment as this will only assist OS and application load times and will have no positive impact to video editing. From what I can gather a larger 7500rpm HDD will have much more impact due to the sustained write activities that are required for video editing (please correct me if I am wrong here).

Keep them coming guys .....

Thanks

[aussiebbq]

Once you go SSD you will never go back to regular hard drives for OS etc, again. Keeping an older hard drive for bulk storage is still a good idea though. Although in saying that some people go way over board and run 3 drives. SSD for OS/Apps. Smaller SSD as a scratch drive then older drive when project is completed. That's going completely overboard though.

[Smitty]

Once you go SSD you will never go back to regular hard drives for OS etc, again. Keeping an older hard drive for bulk storage is still a good idea though. Although in saying that some people go way over board and run 3 drives. ...................

.. correct in my opinion.

In my build (see above) I went SAMSUNG 256gb SSD for the o/s and MOST USED programs (eg Office, PInnacle, browsers) ...... and 3 other hard disk drives
a D drive for the rest of the programs ..and work space (temp file stuff) (a 1TB WD 7200rpm BLACK drive)
a E drive for all data (same WD drive as D)
a F drive for backups (a 2TB WD Blue CAVIAR drive)
and
I also have a WD 2TB Passport USB drive for a monthly backup (and I take this to work once done) you can never have enuff backups