Hi, i want to build a computer for a family member where they plan to use it for office based things and some lite video editing.
They told me they want it to have lots of RAM (not sure what that means other than they want it to be fast). But really anything compared to what they have now will be fast. I was thinking of at least 8 to 16GB of ram.
A friend also mentioned that EEPROM hard drives are good and something about an EEPROM board that goes on the MOB should be good.
Any thoughts? I have no idea on Intel vs AMD
H, so for video editing plenty of ram is a good idea - 16gb should be fine (buy a 2 x 8gb kit for dual channel operation which will help boost performance a bit). I'd suggest buying a motherboard with 4 ram slots as that will give option to add more memory in future is required (editing higher resolution videos like 4k will use a lot of ram, 16gb should be fine for 1080p).
With regards to the hard drive, what I believe your friend was referring to is an NVME drive. These are the fastest type of storage drive available although do cost more for the same capacity than other drive types such as Sata SSD or traditional hard disk drives. You may want to consider a small (ish) NVME drive as a Windows boot drive with a slower, larger drive for storing video files given your budget.
In terms of value vs performance for this type of work, you probably want to look at an AMD system.
I would suggest one of 2 options, to keep costs down you could look at a Ryzen 5 3400G - this is a 4 core, 8 thread cpu and comes with a decent integrated GPU. Should be fine for light video work and the integrated graphics are enough for daily tasks and older games. That with a reasonable B450 motherboard should fit within your budget. For a bit more performance the best price - performance chip is the Ryzen 5 3600, that is 6 cores and 12 threads so will be quite a bit faster for video encoding and so on. The only downside to that cpu is it doesn't include any on chip graphics, so you will also need to buy a separate graphics card which will increase cost a bit. That said as the machine is mainly for video / office stuff you don't need to spent a lot of a graphics board - something basic like a GT 1030 or RX 550 card would do the job.