Creating a balanced high-end system for 4k video editing

[reilavac]

Current specs:
CPU: Intel Core i7-6900K
GPU: Nvidia GTX 1080
SSD1: Samsung 850 Pro 512GB (for OS, programs)
SSD2: Samsung 960 Pro NVMe PCIe M.2 1TB (for project files, scratch, media cache & data)
HDD: WD Black 6TB (2015) (for longer term storage)
RAM: Corsair Vengeance LPX DDR4 2400 C14 4x8GB
MBD: Asus X99-DELUXE II

Please advise if this is a balanced system or not, and what I can do to make it so. Please pay particular attention to the RAM: 'enough', not 'enough', wrong speed? - I should say I'm not planning to OC the CPU, as preference is for longer-term stability rather than shorter-term oomph.

Many thanks in advance.

 

[Zerk2012]

4K editing is a booger.
Unless your program can GPU acceleration then the 1080 is really wasted money.
If it cant then I would look at a GTX 1060 6GB card and up the memory to 64GB.
I dont like the motherboard choice to many bad user reviews but I would up the m r mory speed to 2800.

 

[reilavac]

4K editing is a booger.
Unless your program can GPU acceleration then the 1080 is really wasted money.
If it cant then I would look at a GTX 1060 6GB card and up the memory to 64GB.
I dont like the motherboard choice to many bad user reviews but I would up the m r mory speed to 2800.

Hello again. Fast off the mark

Main program is currently Premiere Pro CC. Logic behind the 1080 is that Lumetri colour is my friend and my understanding is that something like that is very much GPU accelerated. Might also be moving to / trying out DaVinci Resolve in the future and I've heard that is pretty heavy - heavier than Premiere. Any chance you could validate?

RAM. 1) If staying with 2400, is that just a case of getting two 4x8GB kits of the Corsair?
RAM. 2) ARK lists the max supported RAM for Broadwell-E CPUs at 2400 not 2800. This is something I don't understand at the moment: won't the memory just run at 2400MHz because of the CPU? Could 2800 sticks be run at 2800 without OC-ing the CPU?

MOBO. Do you have a go-to motherboard? Or can you recommend one over the Deluxe II? Something with a WS at the end maybe? The case I've got my eyes on is the updated H440 with no window, so I don't care what it looks like inside, by the way.

 

[Zerk2012]

You buy the memory in one matched set never 2 sets.
That board supports memory up to 3333 although it might take some tweaking to get it that fast stable.

 

[reilavac]

You buy the memory in one matched set never 2 sets.
That board supports memory up to 3333 although it might take some tweaking to get it that fast stable.

Thanks man. Any opinion on other motherboards?

 

[Zerk2012]

I would look at this one.
http://www.asrock.com/mb/intel/X99%20Taichi/#Overview
On the video card make sure what your using for software can actually use a gaming card and don't require a workstation card.

 

[reilavac]

I would look at this one.
http://www.asrock.com/mb/intel/X99%20Taichi/#Overview
On the video card make sure what your using for software can actually use a gaming card and don't require a workstation card.

That board does look really good - I'll probably take advantage of the extra M.2 slot, and I don't expect to have anything other than a single GPU in the PCIe slots, so it seems the Taichi does everything I want it to. Thanks for opening my eyes to ASRock.