Video editing/rig for 1st year of University

[ClownWalker]

Hi, I'm asking this for a friend. I know quite a bit about gaming builds, but not so much about video editing rigs.

This is what he has :
i3-3XXX
8Gb
500Gb HDD
GTX 960

He wishes to upgrade to :
i5-6600K (LGA 1151)
Z170 mobo (LGA 1151)

For those of you Toms Hardwarians who do video editing, would he be alright with a Skylake i5 like this one or would an i7 be a better choice with hyper-threading and stuff?
Also, is 8Gb enough for all this rendering thing?

He'll be using Adobe Premiere for Video and Ableton Live for audio.

Thank you for your time

 

[Gam3r01]

What is the current motherboard?
A Xeon 1231v3 with 8GB additional ram may be better suited for cheaper.

 

[Barty1884]

Gam3r01 is right:

PCPartPicker part list / Price breakdown by merchant

CPU: Intel Xeon E3-1231 V3 3.4GHz Quad-Core Processor ($239.99 @ SuperBiiz)
Motherboard: ASRock H97 Anniversary ATX LGA1150 Motherboard ($69.99 @ SuperBiiz)
Memory: Kingston 16GB (2 x 8GB) DDR3-1600 Memory ($63.83 @ Amazon)
Total: $373.81
Prices include shipping, taxes, and discounts when available
Generated by PCPartPicker 2016-03-29 16:17 EDT-0400

$373 or around 320GBP

You'd be paying right around $300 / 300GBP for a Skylake, or even a Haswell i7 alone.

 

[why_wolf]

a xeon or i7 would be the best choice for video editing (got to have that hyperthreading yo).