Question Any reason NOT to build this B760 rig for non-4K video editing?

[Robomcd]

For our Czech non-profit (home office), I must get a new video editing PC for making simple and short event and education video's, and also go through 10 years of video-camera and mobile phone footage and make them into something nice.

Our non-profit budget is very limited; the z790 setup I first thought (Asus ProArt MB and RTX 4070 TI is far over budget and also serious overkill for my needs. So I switched to a B760 build plan and would appreciate some comments and advice.

Beware: I am not into gaming that much, certainly nothing heavy, quick or multi-player real time.

Proposed build (nothing bought yet)
Format: ATX (I have a case and space is no problem; noisy fans are)
MB: ASROCK B760 PRO RS
CPU: i514600K
GPU: Intel Arc B850 Limited Edition (in this price range, the only alternative is nvidea 4060)
Ram: 32 GB DDR5
OS drive: a 250 GB OS SSD (my current Samsung 870 EVO sata SSD)
Project/work drive: a 1 TB NVMe SSD drive
Cache drive: 500 GB or 1 TB NMVe SSD drive
Archive-backup drive: my current few months old WD 4TB HDD
Case: if possible, my old ATX Coolmaster Silencio 550 silent case with hot-swap HHD bay. PSU: my 850W, or a new one if I need better connectors.
Cooler: I probably need a new cooler for the Intel i5.

Is this a capable rig for what I need?

Spending $ 50 extra on something that gives a significant advantage (like a better MB) is no problem. However, spending $ 100 or more on, for example, i7 or better graphic card which for me in real-live situation does not give a significant advantage is out. Maybe somebody doing professional editing work or heavy 4K can use the more expensive components, but is it really necessary for my work load?

Any advice - comment is appreciated. Please remember I am in the Czech Republic, so links to non-EU websites can be useful for specs comparison, but not for price offers etc.

 

[Ralston18]

What video editing software do you use? What is the workload?

What other software is being used or will be used? And may be being run at the same time.....

Most software companies provide some listing of required hardware specs in the form of "minimal", "recommended", and "best".

You do not want "minimal" and you do want as much "best" as the budget permits.

 

[Robomcd]

Adobe CS6, Dreamweaver, Chief Architect, DaVinci Resolve free version. If I like it, I might buy it; I hate annual cloud subscriptions . Also an old ACDSee version as photo manager (I have over 100 000 digital images and tons of old analog stuff that has to be digitalizedand) and using Photoshop for other image work.

More or less always running together
- 4 PMail clients with auto-download and checking.
- Office 2003 (I still love it) AND office 365
- Firefox, Opera, or DuckDuck browser open with on average 15-40 tabs open. Now that I am looking for PC builds, 100 tabs open is no exception: I always open links in new tabs and often keep them open switching back and forwards.
- For EU projects and our non-profit work, we often do video conferencing including hosting the meeting. Often, I forget to close other programs or just do other things when the meeting gets boring🙂))

Again, to stress, I definitely am not a professional and the video editing or photo work is not my main work. But I like doing it on an amateur level and want to go a bit further. I also hate slow or noisy PCs.

So after 12 years not investing in PCs and 7 years not in laptops (Apple Macbook Air running windows 10), I think its about time to get some new and better stuff for our non-profits. I more or less managed without doing heavy stuff or video editing, but its getting too slow even with light stuff (think going for a coffee while waiting).

 

[Robomcd]

I got some other replies also from colleagues, asking me why I do not go for the new Intel processors.

Did some checking here, and actually I could switch without too much price difference:

MB: ASRock Z890 PRO RS or the $35 cheaper MB: ASRock Z890 PRO-A
CPU: Intel Core Ultra 5 245K
GPU: Intel Arc B850 Limited Edition.

That would be about $170 more expensive, but with the lower energy consumption I probably can use some of the old stuff like coolers and PSU for this moment.

I read that the new Core Ultra 5 is lagging in gaming (for a new CPU line compared to the i5 14600K) but supposedly better in productivity. Everything will be light-years better than I have now, and my gaming is anyway low stuff, so it might be worth considering. What do you think.

Related question: when will the cheaper B860 motherboards come to the shops; any details on that available already?