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Build an Editing PC for $800 - May 2013

2013-05-01
hey guys this is Austin and today I'm here with an $800 editing PC build now this is just a little bit different from my normal gaming builds as this is more aimed at someone who needs to be able to use a professional 3d application maybe you're going to be doing some gameplay streaming or recording or you might just simply need a very powerful computer to do some video editing to give you an idea of the performance I loaded up a copy of Adobe Premiere cs6 and then rendered out a one minute video at the YouTube 1080p preset and it only needed about one minute and 31 seconds to complete it moving on we have Cinebench which is a more general overall benchmark on the CPU side we got a score of six point eight seven points and on the OpenGL benchmark test we got a score of fifty one point nine frames per second since this is a very powerful PC you can also do some gaming on it so a loaded up Crysis 3 which arguably is the best-looking PC game out right now this is able to run it at 1080p on high settings with a bit of anti-aliasing definitely very impressive to kick the build off one time using an AMD FX 8350 now for a build like this we can absolutely use as much raw power as we can get our hands on and the 8350 definitely delivers here with an 8 core design clocked it up to 4.2 gigahertz now heavily threaded programs such as Adobe Premiere and Sony Vegas will definitely be able to take advantage of all these cores and that very high clock speed is definitely great right out of the box but if you'd like you can also do some overclocking to push it even higher all for about a hundred and ninety five dollars for a motherboard we want to be using a gigabyte GA 978 d3 now this gives you a lot of bang for your buck is of course it does support our 8350 processor as well as overclocking it but on top of that it also does support up to 32 gigabytes of RAM if you want totally maxed it out and it does have cool features that you would hope to have hundred new computer like this including USB 3.0 support as well as 6 SATA 3 ports so that means that you can add multiple hard drives or even multiple SSDs all for about $85 for the graphics card we're going to be using a 2 gigabyte EVGA GeForce GTX 650 Ti boost so really long name inside this is an awesome new card it delivers a lot of the performance from the gtx 660 but in a much lower price tag so one of the really cool things about this is of course it is an nvidia card is that it does support credit which is very important for programs such as the Adobe cs6 Suite it also does have two gigabytes of memory built and which you can definitely come in handy and on top of all this it's definitely a very good gaming card as well so if you want to go load up something like Crysis like I showed earlier pretty much any game out there it'll definitely be able to handle it all for about 170 dollars for memory we're going to be using 8 gigabytes of Corsair Vengeance ddr3 ram now this is great stuff that I use in a lot of my builds is not only is it reliable but it's also pretty quick as it's close to 1600 megahertz now eight gigabytes should be enough for most programs however if you like you can very easily upgrade this to 16 gigabytes or even 32 if you'd like however if you just want to stick with the 8 gig version it's going to run you about $65 for an SSD we're going to be using a 120 gigabyte Samsung 840 series drive now I am a huge fan of SSDs especially when you're going to be doing editing or anything like that as it makes an absolutely massive difference so the 8:40 is going to be a great choice for this build if not only is it going to be fast and reliable Samsung makes some of the best SSDs out there but on top of that it's not going to break the bank coming in at about $100 for the hard drive we won't be using a one terabyte Western Digital caviar green now the one disadvantage of using an SSD is it typically does not have a lot of storage space so that's where a secondary hard drive such as the caviar grain will definitely come in handy so with one terabyte of storage this should be enough for a lot of video pictures all that kind of stuff however I will mention that if you do need more space this also does come in a 2 as well as 3 terabyte versions of course all those links will be in the description of this video however it's the 1 terabyte version is all you need it's going to run you about $75 for the power supply we're going to be using a 500 watt pour center CX 500 now I use these in my build all the time and that's because not only are they cheap but they're also very reliable they're fairly efficient thanks to the 80 plus bronze certification and with 500 watts of capacity that should be more than enough for the system as is as well if you'd like to do some additional upgrades such as hard drives on a lot kind of stuff in the future so all this for about $55 makes it a perfect fit for this build for a case we're going to be using the Corsair card by 200 are now of course there make some fantastic cases and the 200 are is no exception so some of the things it's got going for it is it is a full sized ATX enclosure which means that you're going to have lots of room for upgrades for example additional fans hard drives SSDs all that will fit into the 200 R with no problem on top of that it's fairly well it does have USB 3.0 support on the front panel and not only that but it's also very clean and understated looking design all for about $60 so there you have it an awesome $800 editing PC build now of course prices are always changing so I will have links to everything I mentioned in the description of this video as well as some additional upgrades so for example if you'd like to add some more memory you like to get a bigger hard drive whatever I'll have a bunch of extra links in the description for all kinds of cool upgrades for the system if you're interested more feel free to check out my last bill where I went over a $750 gaming PC if you enjoyed definitely be sure to leave this video a thumbs up and subscribe for more PC Bowls like this anyway guys I will catch you next time
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