Computer for Video Rendering (Premiere, AE) (help)

[saeroner]

Hey guys I am new here on this forum. Just wanted to know what would be the best computer rig for video editing now and days. My old PC is done for.

$1200-$1400 budget?

No 4K just mainly 720P and sometimes 1280 for video. Simple animation done in after effects. Use a lot of video storage. Probably a TB that always needs access.

I work for an organization so the boss probably wants a Dell of something with warranty.

Would a self built machine save a lot of $$? I do have 2 brand new WD black TB HDD. There seems like an overwhelming amount of options available. Not sure what is best (not up to date on hardware).

Any ideas that might help? Greatly appreciated

Thanks

 

[sadams04]

You are not asking for anything special so yeah... there are a lot of options out there for you to choose from. I would suggest the building a machine yourself. The B150 / H170 chipset with four memory slots (for an upgrade later), an i7-6700, 16GB memory and and SSD would do very nicely. Being a small business, I would imaging a small SSD will do just fine, then long term storage on a server or other redundant storage setup.


PCPartPicker part list / Price breakdown by merchant

CPU: Intel Core i7-6700 3.4GHz Quad-Core Processor ($303.77 @ OutletPC)
Motherboard: Asus B150M-A/M.2 Micro ATX LGA1151 Motherboard ($71.98 @ Newegg)
Memory: Crucial 16GB (2 x 8GB) DDR4-2133 Memory ($82.98 @ Directron)
Storage: Crucial MX300 275GB M.2-2280 Solid State Drive ($70.98 @ Directron)
Case: Rosewill TYRFING ATX Mid Tower Case ($19.99 @ Newegg)
Power Supply: SeaSonic 350W 80+ Bronze Certified ATX Power Supply ($31.99 @ SuperBiiz)
Operating System: Microsoft Windows 10 Home OEM 64-bit ($88.58 @ OutletPC)
Total: $670.27

 

[ikaz]

If you want buy retail your looking at something like this :

http://www.dell.com/us/business/p/precision-t3x20-series-workstation/pd?3x_nav=PROC_BRAND%3DCORE_I7_6%26MEMRY_SIZE_GB%3D16&3x_page=1&filterCollapsed=true&ref=PD_OC

building your self much cheaper but may have longer down time if there is a problem, if you have a dell business account they will normally overnight parts on failure but again your paying for issues up front.