Advice on editing build

[Victn42]

I can buy these used but good condition parts to put together a video editing pc. My questions are: Is this going to be good for 4K editing (with more ram)?
Asking price is $400? Might be firm, don't know.
Are the components too dated to waste money on?
Gigabyte GA-X99-UD3P Motherboard
Intel Xeon E5-2630L v3 ES
Corsair Vengeance LPX 8GB (2x4GB) DDR4 2133MHz C13 Memory
CoolerMaster Hyper 212 EVO CPU Cooler

I have 750w gold psu
Asus 1060 SC gpu
Thanks in advance.

 

[Barty1884]

It would likely be 'ok' and no more.

The 6core/12thread aspect of the Xeon is nice, but it is clocked pretty low (2-2.5GHz).

Is it worth $400, I personally wouldn't say so.

Are you just getting the Mobo/CPU/RAM/Cooler? If so, you'd be better off buying a Ryzen7 1700, Mobo & RAM for a little north of $500.

 

[timbo80]

I currently use an X99 build for editing in premiere and lightworks. Mostly high bitrate RAW footage, 225mb for every second of footage in 1080p for example from my SSD deck and Ninja 2 recorder. I'm running an I7 5930K, 32GB DDR4, GTX 1080 on an MSI X99 Gaming Pro Carbon with Samsung 850 SSD's. Long story short, yeah the X99 platform is plenty capable for editing "the best still in my opinion vs the other chipsets", you don't really need much video card for editing in premiere, a good CPU helps, SSD's are 110% the necessity and most of all, tons of RAM if your working with big 4K files.
Keep in mind though, when I say big I mean 15-30GB or more video files. The files from most consumer drones and cameras are heavily compressed and hover in the few GB range usually so 16GB leaves some left for programs when working, 32GB is better and in my case i'm pricing 64GB kits at the moment as I run out and hit swap occasionally which leads to stutter in playback and just generally poor performance. CPU horsepower has never been an issue though as well as the video card not even spinning up the fans as its not doing much.
I do a lot of editing, I love my X99. It has been, and will continue to be doing the job for some time to come.
I cant attest to the performance of the Xenon CPU, but from genuine experience a solid CPU, and more, faster RAM combined with the fastest storage you can afford will get you much further than getting the fastest CPU on the planet and letting everything else suffer. I'm personally not sold on the Ryzen, I'm sure it has some good benchmarks out there but I never adopt new. I'll likely get flamed but i'm sticking with my quad channel setup with upgrade paths to proven Intel Xenon and X series chips if I need it but as I said, everything else made a bigger performance difference than just the CPU.
Just my 2c,
Tim

 

[iamacow]

If you haven't built it yet I would get an AMD 1700X setup. less the half the cost and is close to a 10c Intel chip. AMD actually finally made a decent CPU for video editing.

But either way you are going to want a lot more ram a video card with more VRAM also. Just having Premiere open with a few 4k videos I'm hitting 32GB with FX on. If you are only editing one stream at a time than you'll get away with 16GB. 8GB is too little for 4k and most 1080P editing.

Also I wouldn't buy a ES chip. Technically its illegal to sell, but Intel never does anything about it. Also they only work on certain motherboards and BIOS. So you are SOL when you have a problem. All ES chips are pre-retail for a reason. They aren't finished chips and still in the testing phase.

 

[Victn42]

It would likely be 'ok' and no more.

The 6core/12thread aspect of the Xeon is nice, but it is clocked pretty low (2-2.5GHz).

Is it worth $400, I personally wouldn't say so.

Are you just getting the Mobo/CPU/RAM/Cooler? If so, you'd be better off buying a Ryzen7 1700, Mobo & RAM for a little north of $500.

 

[Victn42]

I was afraid it might be borderline. Too many bucks for dated parts.

 

[Victn42]

I currently use an X99 build for editing in premiere and lightworks. Mostly high bitrate RAW footage, 225mb for every second of footage in 1080p for example from my SSD deck and Ninja 2 recorder. I'm running an I7 5930K, 32GB DDR4, GTX 1080 on an MSI X99 Gaming Pro Carbon with Samsung 850 SSD's. Long story short, yeah the X99 platform is plenty capable for editing "the best still in my opinion vs the other chipsets", you don't really need much video card for editing in premiere, a good CPU helps, SSD's are 110% the necessity and most of all, tons of RAM if your working with big 4K files.
Keep in mind though, when I say big I mean 15-30GB or more video files. The files from most consumer drones and cameras are heavily compressed and hover in the few GB range usually so 16GB leaves some left for programs when working, 32GB is better and in my case i'm pricing 64GB kits at the moment as I run out and hit swap occasionally which leads to stutter in playback and just generally poor performance. CPU horsepower has never been an issue though as well as the video card not even spinning up the fans as its not doing much.
I do a lot of editing, I love my X99. It has been, and will continue to be doing the job for some time to come.
Just my 2c,
Tim

 

[Victn42]

You have what I want for sure. My drone will do h.265 and bit rate at 100. I need something much better than what I use now. Guess I'll suck it up and go new I7. Your cpu alone is $600 lol. I'm not sold on the new AMD yet for editing. Thanks

 

[timbo80]

Good luck with whatever ypu decide, you will always get 100 different awnsers on what cpu to use, but as your seeing here, and is repeated in many other threads, lots of RAM is one of the single biggest contributors to a smooth experience editing, as well as fast storage. Ssd bare minimum, and newer m.2 etc just ups the ante.
Tim

 

[Victn42]

Thanks. Cheap never works out lol. I just need to spend more and be done. I got the answers I needed.

 

[iamacow]

I'm still rocking a i7 3930k with 64GB of ram. If you can snag a used X79 motherboard and a XEON E5 2670 than your set. 8Core XEON for $80 on ebay and it preforms the same as a 3930K in multi-thread apps. I know because I owned one

If I didn't already have a system for Editing I would get a 1700X. nothing beats that for performance over value. If I had money to burn I would wait until June for the new X299 (2066 Socket) Intel chips and skip the X99 platform all together.