New PC Build primarily for Video editing and minor gaming

Dreamersday1

Hello, I have a videography company , and currently wanting to upgrade with a pc. We mainly use Adobe premiere pro, adobe after effects, adobe photoshop, adobe Lightroom. what is the best pc build for a 4k editing beast? 

TSTonyV

Do you have a specific budget in mind? Once we know that, we'll be able to get a good idea of what the best build overall would be. As a preliminary recommendation, I think the AMD Ryzen CPUs are going to pretty much be the way to go for you. AMD is the king of workstation and multi-threaded workloads right now. 

TheITDad

So because you want to jump straight into 4k video editing I'm going to assume you have roughly 5k to spend on a system excluding peripherals.  Now for mass storage it's up to you I just included a 7200rpm drive just because for mass storage it's cheaper.  But your main drive is a gen 4 nvme drive to help with transfer speeds and read/write speeds.  The case is also subjective on whether you want a more "professional" looking case, the lancool 2 is just a solid case with plenty of space.  The last thing is the AIO I put in here does have some issues with breaking after like only 6 months.  So perhaps try to find a different AIO, I only put it in there because I absolutely know that one works with threadripper cpu's.  Now if you come back with a much higher budget we can redo some things, but I also left some space on a presumed 5k budget for extra storage.  Now I did the 2080TI just because you can use the hardware enabled encoder in some of these programs I believe and take advantage of the 2080TI but that is most defiantly a spot to drop the price down to something more like a 2070 super or 2080 super and put that extra cash into perhaps more storage or better cooling and fans.  Without a set budget and perhaps some more preferences a more precise build will be tricky.  

Configure Your PC: https://www.microcenter.com/site/content/custom-pc-builder.aspx?load=5ee47dae-a46c-48ac-a1a2-6000d0d42fa9

CPU: (1) AMD Ryzen Threadripper 3970X Castle Peak 3.7GHz 32-Core sTRX4 Boxed Processor ($1,849.99 EACH)

Motherboard: (1) ASUS TRX40 ROG Strix AMD sTRX4 ATX Motherboard ($549.99 EACH)

RAM: (1) G.Skill Ripjaws V 64GB (4 x 16GB) DDR4-3600 PC4-28800 CL16 Quad Channel Desktop Memory Kit F4-3600C16Q-64GVKC - Black ($293.99 EACH)

Case: (1) Lian Li Lancool II Tempered Glass eATX Full Tower Computer Case - Black ($89.99 EACH)

Power Supply: (1) Corsair RM850 850 Watt 80 Plus Gold ATX Fully Modular Power Supply ($159.99 EACH)

Video Card: (1) MSI GeForce RTX 2080 Ti Gaming X Trio Triple-Fan 11GB GDDR6 PCIe 3.0 Graphics Card ($1,249.99 EACH)

M.2 SSD: (1) Inland Performance 1TB SSD 3D NAND M.2 2280 PCIe NVMe 4.0 x4 Internal Solid State Drive ($199.99 EACH)

Hard Drive: (1) WD Black Performance 4TB 7200RPM SATA III 6Gb/s 3.5" Internal Hard Drive ($179.99 EACH)

Water Cooling Kits: (1) Enermax Liqtech TR4 II 280mm RGB Water Cooling Kit ($149.99 EACH)

Total: $4,723.91

Dreamersday1

My budget is $1500-$2000 
excluding monitor 

Dreamersday1

Soon I’ll upgrade but for now anything beats what i currently have. I’m hanging on a thread with a laptop that’s outdated so premiere crashes all the time. 

Dreamersday1

Would this suffice ? 

Configure Your PC: https://www.microcenter.com/site/content/custom-pc-builder.aspx?load=aef69040-74a7-4a53-a5a2-b820ba5ace61

CPU: (1) AMD Ryzen 7 3700X Matisse 3.6GHz 8-Core AM4 Boxed Processor with Wraith Prism Cooler ($259.99 EACH)

Motherboard: (1) ASUS X570 TUF Gaming Plus (WI-FI) AMD AM4 ATX Motherboard ($189.99 EACH)

RAM: (1) G.Skill Ripjaws V 32GB (2 x 16GB) DDR4-3200 PC4-25600 CL16 Dual Channel Desktop Memory Kit F4-3200C16D-32G - Black ($116.99 EACH)

Case: (1) Corsair Carbide SPEC-02 Redshift Special Edition ATX Mid-Tower Computer Case - Black ($64.99 EACH)

Power Supply: (1) EVGA 650BQ 650 Watt 80 Plus Bronze ATX Semi-Modular Power Supply ($99.99 EACH)

Video Card: (1) EVGA GeForce RTX 2070 SUPER BLACK GAMING Overclocked Dual-Fan 8GB GDDR6 PCIe 3.0 Graphics Card ($519.99 EACH)

2.5" SSD: (1) Samsung 860 EVO 1TB SSD 3-bit MLC V-NAND SATA III 6Gb/s 2.5" Internal Solid State Drive ($149.99 EACH)

M.2 SSD: (1) Samsung 970 EVO 1TB SSD 3-bit MLC NAND M.2 2280 PCIe NVMe 3.0 x4 Internal Solid State Drive ($179.99 EACH)

Water Cooling Kits: (1) NZXT Kraken X63 280mm RGB Water Cooling Kit ($149.99 EACH)

Total: $1,731.91

Generated by Micro Center https://www.microcenter.com (6/16/2020 11:09:55 PM)

TSTonyV

That's a solid build overall for sure. If you want to pack in a little more CPU power, you could downgrade to a 2060 Super for your video card and go with a Ryzen 9 3900X, but it's preference at the end of the day. Either combination I think you'd be very happy with.