PC for video rendering help

[aarro]

Hi, My younger brother has asked me to find him a PC that is great for both gaming & video rendering. The gaming side of the spec is a piece of cake BUT I know nothing about video rendering let alone its requirements. Be very grateful if you guys could help me out on this subject please.

[Vash The Stampede]

Gaming budget? Do you know how to assemble a PC?

[aarro]

Gaming budget? Do you know how to assemble a PC?

£1500 id say and yes I do

[Deleted]

I dont know if you need monitors, mouse and keyboard etc..

You have 2 choices here;

PCPartPicker part list / Price breakdown by merchant

CPU: Intel Core i7-5820K 3.3GHz 6-Core Processor (£305.87 @ More Computers)
CPU Cooler: CRYORIG R1 Ultimate 76.0 CFM CPU Cooler (£59.99 @ Ebuyer)
Motherboard: MSI X99A SLI PLUS ATX LGA2011-3 Motherboard (£172.14 @ Amazon UK)
Memory: Crucial 16GB (2 x 8GB) DDR4-2133 Memory (£79.30 @ Ebuyer)
Storage: Samsung 850 EVO-Series 250GB 2.5" Solid State Drive (£68.99 @ Aria PC)
Storage: Western Digital Caviar Blue 1TB 3.5" 7200RPM Internal Hard Drive (£39.98 @ Scan.co.uk)
Video Card: MSI Radeon R9 390 8GB Video Card (£264.99 @ Amazon UK)
Case: Fractal Design Define R5 (Black) ATX Mid Tower Case (£77.10 @ CCL Computers)
Power Supply: Super Flower Leadex Gold 650W 80+ Gold Certified Fully-Modular ATX Power Supply (£89.38 @ CCL Computers)
Optical Drive: Samsung SH-224DB/BEBE DVD/CD Writer (£9.38 @ CCL Computers)
Operating System: Microsoft Windows 10 Home OEM (64-bit) (£73.99 @ Aria PC)
Total: £1241.11
Prices include shipping, taxes, and discounts when available
Generated by PCPartPicker 2015-09-18 21:04 BST+0100

OR

https://www.overclockers.co.uk/showp...=43&catid=2475

Theres barely anything in it and OCUK have already overclocked that cpu for you and tested but do charge an arm and a leg for delivery on full systems.

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The Nvidia 970 or 980 depending on how you want to stretch your budget tend to do better on DX11 games but AMD so far are ahead on DX12, really what games you play tbh.

[aarro]

I dont know if you need monitors, mouse and keyboard etc..

You have 2 choices here;

PCPartPicker part list / Price breakdown by merchant

CPU: Intel Core i7-5820K 3.3GHz 6-Core Processor (£305.87 @ More Computers)
CPU Cooler: CRYORIG R1 Ultimate 76.0 CFM CPU Cooler (£59.99 @ Ebuyer)
Motherboard: MSI X99A SLI PLUS ATX LGA2011-3 Motherboard (£172.14 @ Amazon UK)
Memory: Crucial 16GB (2 x 8GB) DDR4-2133 Memory (£79.30 @ Ebuyer)
Storage: Samsung 850 EVO-Series 250GB 2.5" Solid State Drive (£68.99 @ Aria PC)
Storage: Western Digital Caviar Blue 1TB 3.5" 7200RPM Internal Hard Drive (£39.98 @ Scan.co.uk)
Video Card: MSI Radeon R9 390 8GB Video Card (£264.99 @ Amazon UK)
Case: Fractal Design Define R5 (Black) ATX Mid Tower Case (£77.10 @ CCL Computers)
Power Supply: Super Flower Leadex Gold 650W 80+ Gold Certified Fully-Modular ATX Power Supply (£89.38 @ CCL Computers)
Optical Drive: Samsung SH-224DB/BEBE DVD/CD Writer (£9.38 @ CCL Computers)
Operating System: Microsoft Windows 10 Home OEM (64-bit) (£73.99 @ Aria PC)
Total: £1241.11
Prices include shipping, taxes, and discounts when available
Generated by PCPartPicker 2015-09-18 21:04 BST+0100

OR

https://www.overclockers.co.uk/showp...=43&catid=2475

Theres barely anything in it and OCUK have already overclocked that cpu for you and tested but do charge an arm and a leg for delivery on full systems.

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The Nvidia 970 or 980 depending on how you want to stretch your budget tend to do better on DX11 games but AMD so far are ahead on DX12, really what games you play tbh.

Brilliant! Thank you

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Forgot to add, on the OCUK system, please tweak it about, you must add an OS to it if you don't have one already.

Reduce the HDD to 1 TB, no LED lighting and add windows 10, you get a similar priced build but upto you what GPU you want in there and how much horsepower is needed for that.

Otherwise the build I put up is a slightly better specced build which just has a better choice of case and PSU ( its basically the gold rated version of what OCUK are putting in as they use superflower PSU.