Heat - which version of Adobe does your father use? CS3 did not offload to the GPU, CS4 does with both nVidia and ATI/AMD cards helping out, and it is only CS5 that takes advantage of CUDA with the Mercury Processing Engine. When will its replacement be coming out and what performance improvments might be expected? I would hate to see him invest in Sandy/Ivy Bridge only to see them blown away by Gulftown 2 (whatever it is called) for video work. But Gulftown is getting pretty long in the tooth.

The 2TB green drives offer the best price:capacity for storage purposes.Ĭlick to expand.Good point. I just recently built an editing rig for a friend and I went with an SSD for the OS and applications, two 1TB WD Blacks in RAID 0 for render/scratch, and for now, one 2TB WD Green for media storage. Internal BR-D/DVD burners are less than $100.Īny hard drive can fail, but I stick to Western Digitals and Samsungs.

RAM is so cheap that 16GB is a no-brainer. There's a list of GPU-accelerated Premiere Pro effects here. Whether he wants a GPU (or two) depends on what effects he uses. Depending on how much editing he does (prosumer/pro indicates a lot of work), you should consider the Gulftowns. You can see from this benchmark how the 6 core Gulftowns stack up against the 4 core Sandy Bridge. The Core i7-2600K costs ~$325 and is also a very solid performer. However, they are tied to a dead socket (LGA 1366), and cost ~$600. The Intel Core i7-970 and i7-980 would be the best CPUs for video editing in Premiere Pro.

Building a pc for video editing