Best Desktop Tower for Video Editing?

[davo98]

I'm willing to spend about $1300 AUD for a desktop tower (just for the tower, nothing else). I'm a film student, and part of my course requires me to deal with quite substantial amounts of video data to edit. I figured an at-home Desktop Computer would be great to maximize the amount of video editing I can do at home. I just want the best tower that I can buy for the price. Something that has great performance and won't let me down. I was looking at the HP ENVY 750-530. Is this something I should be looking for? Or are there better Desktops out there? Any recommendations would be much appreciated!

 

[dark_globe]

PCPartPicker part list / Price breakdown by merchant

CPU: Intel - Core i7-8700 3.2GHz 6-Core Processor ($465.00 @ Umart)
Motherboard: ASRock - Z370 Pro4 ATX LGA1151 Motherboard ($179.00 @ Mwave Australia)
Memory: G.Skill - Ripjaws V Series 16GB (2 x 8GB) DDR4-3000 Memory ($278.00 @ Umart)
Storage: Crucial - MX300 525GB 2.5" Solid State Drive ($180.00 @ Umart)
Storage: Seagate - Barracuda 2TB 3.5" 7200RPM Internal Hard Drive ($80.00 @ PLE Computers)
Case: Corsair - 200R ATX Mid Tower Case ($81.00 @ Shopping Express)
Power Supply: Corsair - CXM 550W 80+ Bronze Certified Semi-Modular ATX Power Supply ($95.00 @ Shopping Express)
Total: $1358.00
Prices include shipping, taxes, and discounts when available
Generated by PCPartPicker 2018-01-23 01:07 AEDT+1100

450w CXM would be more than enough for this build (you can replace it to save some cash)
but i threw in 550w just in case you decide to add some gaming video card in the future .
even some video editing programs can benefit from nvidia gtx cards .

you could also build your system around ryzen 1700x which is 8 cores 16 threads cpu and it can be overclocked
( i7 8700 has 6 cores and 12 threads total )
but ryzen doesn´t have integrated graphics card so you would have to spend additional money on dedicated video card
(at least nvidia gt 1030 which costs around 100 AUD) .

 

[jojesa]

I would, without doubt, go with the Ryzen 1700 instead. It performs better on video editing and other workstation tasks. Also the AMD mobo will cost less. You could save around $200, which could be use to get a faster M.2 NVMe SSD or a video card (GTX 1050 Ti) to boost video editing/rendering performance.
I would recommend the GTX 1060 but they are very expensive these days.

 

[davo98]

PCPartPicker part list / Price breakdown by merchant

CPU: Intel - Core i7-8700 3.2GHz 6-Core Processor ($465.00 @ Umart)
Motherboard: ASRock - Z370 Pro4 ATX LGA1151 Motherboard ($179.00 @ Mwave Australia)
Memory: G.Skill - Ripjaws V Series 16GB (2 x 8GB) DDR4-3000 Memory ($278.00 @ Umart)
Storage: Crucial - MX300 525GB 2.5" Solid State Drive ($180.00 @ Umart)
Storage: Seagate - Barracuda 2TB 3.5" 7200RPM Internal Hard Drive ($80.00 @ PLE Computers)
Case: Corsair - 200R ATX Mid Tower Case ($81.00 @ Shopping Express)
Power Supply: Corsair - CXM 550W 80+ Bronze Certified Semi-Modular ATX Power Supply ($95.00 @ Shopping Express)
Total: $1358.00
Prices include shipping, taxes, and discounts when available
Generated by PCPartPicker 2018-01-23 01:07 AEDT+1100

450w CXM would be more than enough for this build (you can replace it to save some cash)
but i threw in 550w just in case you decide to add some gaming video card in the future .
even some video editing programs can benefit from nvidia gtx cards .

you could also build your system around ryzen 1700x which is 8 cores 16 threads cpu and it can be overclocked
( i7 8700 has 6 cores and 12 threads total )
but ryzen doesn´t have integrated graphics card so you would have to spend additional money on dedicated video card
(at least nvidia gt 1030 which costs around 100 AUD) .

Awesome! Really appreciate this Does it come with an OS though?

 

[dark_globe]

no it doesn´t
and you would have to build it yourself or ask someone who knows how to build a pc to build it for you .
but if you watch some videos on youtube and some tutorials it´s really not that hard to assemble .
this channel is the best for newbies in my opinion: https://www.youtube.com/user/CareyHolzman/videos
this guy is doing step by step 2-3 hours long videos about how to build your system with detailed instructions .