Am I overspending on what I need for a video editing/streaming PC?

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JonathanHale727

New member
Hello all,
I am looking to build my first ever PC with the purpose of being powerful enough to first of all be able to record reactionary videos, and then later down the line have the potential to live stream with gaming content. I have done some research around the specs required and have built what I'm hoping is suitable, but I'd like to double check with smarter people that this build would be up for the task of what I'm after and to hopefully also receive advice on if I could do anything differently, whether that be use better parts or be more cost effective. I am admittedly torn in the sense I would like high quality but I also, even for a new adventure I'm very excited to try, am guilty of doing too much too soon.
I've listed my choices below. Please if you have any help for me I would be so appreciative! Thank you!

Case
PCS PRISM TG WHITE ARGB MID TOWER CASE
Processor (CPU)
Intel® Core™ i9 16-Core Processor i9-12900K (Up to 5.2GHz) 30MB Cache
Motherboard
ASUS® ROG STRIX Z790-A GAMING WIFI D4 (LGA1700, DDR4, PCIe 5.0, Wi-Fi 6E)
Memory (RAM)
64GB Corsair VENGEANCE DDR4 3200MHz (4 x 16GB)
Graphics Card
16GB NVIDIA GEFORCE RTX 4060 Ti - HDMI, DP, LHR
Graphics Card Support Bracket
PCS GRAPHICS CARD SUPPORT BRACKET
1st M.2 SSD Drive
1TB SAMSUNG 980 PRO M.2, PCIe NVMe (up to 7000MB/R, 5000MB/W)
1st M.2 SSD Drive
512GB PCS PCIe M.2 SSD (2200 MB/R, 1500 MB/W)
1st Storage Drive
1TB Samsung 870 EVO 2.5" SSD, SATA 6Gb/s (up to 560MB/sR | 530MB/sW)
Power Supply
CORSAIR 750W RMe SERIES™ MODULAR 80 PLUS® GOLD, ULTRA QUIET
Power Cable
1 x 1.5 Metre UK Power Cable (Kettle Lead)
Processor Cooling
CORSAIR iCUE H100i ELITE CAPELLIX XT RGB High Performance CPU Cooler
Thermal Paste
STANDARD THERMAL PASTE FOR SUFFICIENT COOLING
Sound Card
ASUS Xonar SE 5.1-Channel Gaming Audio Card
Network Card
ONBOARD LAN PORT
USB/Thunderbolt Options
MIN. 2 x USB 3.0 & 2 x USB 2.0 PORTS @ BACK PANEL + MIN. 2 FRONT PORTS
Capture/Streaming Cards
Elgato Game Capture Neo 4K60
Operating System
Windows 11 Home 64 Bit - inc. Single Licence
Operating System Language
United Kingdom - English Language
Windows Recovery Media
Windows 10/11 Multi-Language Recovery Image - Unlimited Downloads from Online Account
Office Software
FREE 30 Day Trial of Microsoft 365® (Operating System Required)
Anti-Virus
Norton 360 For Gamers: 1 User, 3 Devices - 1 Year Subscription
Browser
Microsoft® Edge
Monitor
ASUS VA27EHF 27" - 1920 x 1080, IPS, 100Hz
Keyboard & Mouse
ASUS TUF K1 Gaming Keyboard & M3 Gen II Mouse Bundle
Mouse Pad
PCS Mouse Mat
Webcam
Logitech® HD Webcam C930e - 1080p recording, supports H.264
Key Light
Elgato Key Light Neo
Microphone
Elgato Wave:3 Condenser Microphone
Surge Protection
6 Socket 2m Surge Protector
Warranty
3 Year Standard Warranty (6 Month Collect & Return, 1 Year Parts, 3 Year Labour)
Home Installation
Technician Assisted Installation & Set-Up
Delivery
STANDARD INSURED DELIVERY TO UK MAINLAND (MON-FRI)
Build Time
Standard Build - Approximately 4 to 6 working days
Price: £2,916.00 including VAT and Delivery
Unique URL to re-configure: https://www.pcspecialist.co.uk/saved-configurations/intel-z690-pc/AMba7SYy5U/
Thanks again. JD.
 
Scott

Scott

Behold The Ford Mondeo
Moderator
Hi there, welcome to the forum. You've definitely come to the right place as there are some very questionable choices in there.

What is the maximum budget you are looking to spend and would I be right in thinking you're looking for everything in the build, monitor and peripherals etc?
Is there a requirement to get everything from PCS, ie you're using the finance option, or can the likes of the monitor be purchased elsewhere?
Being a first PC I guess you are learning, do you have any particular software choices in mind to use.... or is this to be found out later?
Video editing and gaming being the 2 main performance considerations?

Right off the bat we wouldn't recommend Intel. Even if we were to go down that route, the 12th generation is 2 generations old, so we would never steer you to use older technology. I'm guessing that the information resources you were looking at were very out of date (at least 2 years).

We can recommend a build from scratch if you can give the above info. If you want to look into some of the thought processes and typical build structure the below has some good reading:

Please read before posting:- Collaboration of Helpful Hints

NB: These forums are not an official support channel. None of us work for PCS, we're all either customers or techies who just like to help out where possible. For any official support, you need to contact PCS directly either through your PCS account, or via the contact details on the main...
www.pcspecialist.co.uk www.pcspecialist.co.uk

Below is another useful read on why we wouldn't suggest Intel for now.

Intel 13th and 14th Gen confirmed defective

So there's been a lot of upset gathering steam on the inter webs with intermittent games crashes on Intel 13th and 14th gen. Workarounds range from underclocking to disabling ecores. BUT, there are a lot of people finding that simply disabling hyperthreading is a proper solution. The findings...
www.pcspecialist.co.uk www.pcspecialist.co.uk
 
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JonathanHale727

New member
Thank you so much Scott!

The maximum budget is around £3000 but that’s including everything in this quote above being PC build, a monitor, lighting, webcam etc. There is no need for everything to be from PCS, no, I would be shopping around but tried to put the needs into the quote to get an idea for a price range. I should have said that in the original post so my bad!

The only software I currently have in mind is adobe premiere pro, photoshop and google chrome. My last computer was a MacBook in 2016 so I’m very out my depth when it comes to windows software and obviously computing in general.

The information looking at it now is about 2/3 years late and I never even considered that an issue. I should have started here before but only saw the forum available here once I saved the quote. If possible a build from scratch would be fantastic and I’d very much appreciate that. I’ll have a read tomorrow morning of both of those two, thank you.

I really appreciate the reply! Massive thanks
 
Scott

Scott

Behold The Ford Mondeo
Moderator
Below is where I land for the build. This would be 1440p gaming, rather than 1080p, so you would get a far better experience. It's always worthwhile having 2 monitors but for the main gaming monitor I would get something like the following:


There are loads of options around the £250-£300 mark. The main things to look for are 144hz+, IPS and at least some form of HDR.

For the second monitor I would get a budget end 4k monitor, which will help massively with the editing. Real estate is a premium with the adobe suite.

The other odds and sods can be picked up at your leisure.

Case
CORSAIR iCUE 4000X RGB TEMPERED GLASS MID-TOWER ATX CASE - WHITE
Processor (CPU)
AMD Ryzen 7 7800X3D Eight Core CPU (4.2GHz-5.0GHz/104MB w/3D V-CACHE/AM5)
Motherboard
ASUS® TUF GAMING B650-PLUS WIFI (AM5, DDR5, PCIe 4.0, Wi-Fi 6)
Memory (RAM)
32GB Corsair VENGEANCE DDR5 6000MHz (2 x 16GB)
Graphics Card
16GB NVIDIA GEFORCE RTX 4070 Ti SUPER - HDMI, DP, LHR
Graphics Card Support Bracket
NONE (BRACKET INCLUDED AS STANDARD ON 4070 Ti / RX 7700 XT AND ABOVE)
1st M.2 SSD Drive
512GB SOLIDIGM P44 PRO GEN 4 M.2 NVMe PCIe SSD (up to 7000MB/sR, 4700MB/sW)
1st M.2 SSD Drive
1TB SOLIDIGM P41+ GEN 4 M.2 NVMe PCIe SSD (up to 4125MB/sR, 2950MB/sW)
1st M.2 SSD Drive
1TB SOLIDIGM P41+ GEN 4 M.2 NVMe PCIe SSD (up to 4125MB/sR, 2950MB/sW)
Power Supply
CORSAIR 1000W RMx SERIES™ - MODULAR 80 PLUS GOLD, ULTRA QUIET
Power Cable
1 x 1.5 Metre UK Power Cable (Kettle Lead, 1.0mm Core)
Processor Cooling
CORSAIR H100x RGB ELITE HIGH PERFORMANCE CPU COOLER
Thermal Paste
STANDARD THERMAL PASTE FOR SUFFICIENT COOLING
Sound Card
ONBOARD 6 CHANNEL (5.1) HIGH DEF AUDIO (AS STANDARD)
Network Card
ONBOARD 2.5Gbe LAN PORT
USB/Thunderbolt Options
MIN. 2 x USB 3.0 & 2 x USB 2.0 PORTS @ BACK PANEL + MIN. 2 FRONT PORTS
Operating System
Windows 11 Home 64 Bit - inc. Single Licence
Operating System Language
United Kingdom - English Language
Windows Recovery Media
Windows 10/11 Multi-Language Recovery Image - Unlimited Downloads from Online Account
Office Software
FREE 30 Day Trial of Microsoft 365® (Operating System Required)
Anti-Virus
NO ANTI-VIRUS SOFTWARE
Browser
Microsoft® Edge
Warranty
3 Year Silver Warranty (1 Year Collect & Return, 1 Year Parts, 3 Year Labour)
Delivery
STANDARD INSURED DELIVERY TO UK MAINLAND (MON-FRI)
Build Time
Standard Build - Approximately 4 to 6 working days
Price: £2,254.00 including VAT and Delivery
Unique URL to re-configure: https://www.pcspecialist.co.uk/saved-configurations/amd-am5-pc/0tBZvetmU0/
 
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Diem

Silver Level Poster
Can I ask why you proposed 2x 1TB drives rather than 1x 2TB?

Not critiquing, just education. Thanks. 🙂
 
J

JonathanHale727

New member
Scott said:
Below is where I land for the build. This would be 1440p gaming, rather than 1080p, so you would get a far better experience. It's always worthwhile having 2 monitors but for the main gaming monitor I would get something like the following:


There are loads of options around the £250-£300 mark. The main things to look for are 144hz+, IPS and at least some form of HDR.

For the second monitor I would get a budget end 4k monitor, which will help massively with the editing. Real estate is a premium with the adobe suite.

The other odds and sods can be picked up at your leisure.

Case
CORSAIR iCUE 4000X RGB TEMPERED GLASS MID-TOWER ATX CASE - WHITE
Processor (CPU)
AMD Ryzen 7 7800X3D Eight Core CPU (4.2GHz-5.0GHz/104MB w/3D V-CACHE/AM5)
Motherboard
ASUS® TUF GAMING B650-PLUS WIFI (AM5, DDR5, PCIe 4.0, Wi-Fi 6)
Memory (RAM)
32GB Corsair VENGEANCE DDR5 6000MHz (2 x 16GB)
Graphics Card
16GB NVIDIA GEFORCE RTX 4070 Ti SUPER - HDMI, DP, LHR
Graphics Card Support Bracket
NONE (BRACKET INCLUDED AS STANDARD ON 4070 Ti / RX 7700 XT AND ABOVE)
1st M.2 SSD Drive
512GB SOLIDIGM P44 PRO GEN 4 M.2 NVMe PCIe SSD (up to 7000MB/sR, 4700MB/sW)
1st M.2 SSD Drive
1TB SOLIDIGM P41+ GEN 4 M.2 NVMe PCIe SSD (up to 4125MB/sR, 2950MB/sW)
1st M.2 SSD Drive
1TB SOLIDIGM P41+ GEN 4 M.2 NVMe PCIe SSD (up to 4125MB/sR, 2950MB/sW)
Power Supply
CORSAIR 1000W RMx SERIES™ - MODULAR 80 PLUS GOLD, ULTRA QUIET
Power Cable
1 x 1.5 Metre UK Power Cable (Kettle Lead, 1.0mm Core)
Processor Cooling
CORSAIR H100x RGB ELITE HIGH PERFORMANCE CPU COOLER
Thermal Paste
STANDARD THERMAL PASTE FOR SUFFICIENT COOLING
Sound Card
ONBOARD 6 CHANNEL (5.1) HIGH DEF AUDIO (AS STANDARD)
Network Card
ONBOARD 2.5Gbe LAN PORT
USB/Thunderbolt Options
MIN. 2 x USB 3.0 & 2 x USB 2.0 PORTS @ BACK PANEL + MIN. 2 FRONT PORTS
Operating System
Windows 11 Home 64 Bit - inc. Single Licence
Operating System Language
United Kingdom - English Language
Windows Recovery Media
Windows 10/11 Multi-Language Recovery Image - Unlimited Downloads from Online Account
Office Software
FREE 30 Day Trial of Microsoft 365® (Operating System Required)
Anti-Virus
NO ANTI-VIRUS SOFTWARE
Browser
Microsoft® Edge
Warranty
3 Year Silver Warranty (1 Year Collect & Return, 1 Year Parts, 3 Year Labour)
Delivery
STANDARD INSURED DELIVERY TO UK MAINLAND (MON-FRI)
Build Time
Standard Build - Approximately 4 to 6 working days
Price: £2,254.00 including VAT and Delivery
Unique URL to re-configure: https://www.pcspecialist.co.uk/saved-configurations/amd-am5-pc/0tBZvetmU0/
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I really appreciate this and the links you shared. I wish I had seen your link before on explaining your methodology in choosing parts because the information that gave compared to the outdated articles I was reading was night and day.

I have a lot of learning to do with this still. I have a question or two about usage of the SSD drives and whether I need to partition initially for the OS but I’ll try re-read the other page you have on storage drives in the morning to see if I can make sense of it first

Again, big thank you for the effort!
 
Scott

Scott

Behold The Ford Mondeo
Moderator
Diem said:
Can I ask why you proposed 2x 1TB drives rather than 1x 2TB?

Not critiquing, just education. Thanks. 🙂
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For this sort of build where it will have dual use, it's good to have the uses separated in the drives themselves. I would use the 500GB drive for the OS and main programs only, nothing else would be stored on this drive as it keeps it trim and running optimally. One of the 1TB drives would then be used for cache/live projects and fast storage. The second drive would be purely for games.

Having them physically separate allows for those channels to be used simultaneously, specifically the primary drive and whatever second use drive is in play. Having anything running at the same time on the same drive there is only one resource available so there's a queue. Additionally, if the game drive is getting more use than the cache drive, it may put a strain on it. You don't want all the eggs in one basket as if there is a failure, you lose everything.

JonathanHale727 said:
I really appreciate this and the links you shared. I wish I had seen your link before on explaining your methodology in choosing parts because the information that gave compared to the outdated articles I was reading was night and day.

I have a lot of learning to do with this still. I have a question or two about usage of the SSD drives and whether I need to partition initially for the OS but I’ll try re-read the other page you have on storage drives in the morning to see if I can make sense of it first

Again, big thank you for the effort!
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Pretty much covered by the above. There's a link on "Why more than one storage drive" also though, which covers this more in depth. You never want to be partitioning nowadays IMO. It's a performance degradation, it's complicated and it's just not required as there are so many storage options now to completely separate all use cases.
 
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