Building a PC for Editing and Gaming: A Comprehensive Review

When it comes to building a PC for editing and gaming, there are several factors to consider. The CPU, RAM, and GPU all play important roles in determining the overall performance of the system. In this review, we'll take a closer look at each component and how they impact editing and gaming performance.

One of the most important considerations when building a PC for editing is the CPU. In recent years, AMD has released several high-performance CPUs that are well-suited for video editing and rendering tasks. The Intel Core i5 6600K, for example, is a popular choice among editors due to its ability to handle demanding tasks such as color grading and visual effects. However, it's worth noting that this chip may not be the strongest option available, particularly when compared to AMD's offerings.

Another key consideration when building a PC for editing is the amount of RAM. A minimum of 16GB of RAM is recommended, but 32GB or more is ideal for handling large projects and multiple applications simultaneously. The system we're reviewing today has an impressive 64GB of RAM, which should provide plenty of headroom for even the most demanding editing tasks.

The GPU is also a critical component when it comes to building a PC for editing. While AMD GPUs are often overlooked in favor of NVIDIA options, they can actually provide excellent performance for video editing and rendering tasks. The system we're reviewing today features an AMD GPU that provides smooth performance even at high resolutions such as 4K.

Synthetic Benchmarks

To get a better sense of the system's overall performance, let's take a look at some synthetic benchmarks. These tests can help us compare the system to others in terms of raw processing power and graphics rendering capabilities. By running these tests, we can gain a better understanding of how the system will perform in real-world scenarios.

Special Announcement

I'm excited to announce that I'll be doing a three-part series on PC builds in the coming weeks. However, this series won't be like usual - it's going to focus more on building PCs for specific use cases rather than just showcasing my build skills. In the next couple of weeks, I'll be returning to school and preparing for a busy exam period, but don't worry - I'll still be working hard to bring you new content.

The first part of this series will feature a PC build that I've been working on behind the scenes. This system features a budget-friendly component list and should provide excellent performance for general use cases such as browsing, streaming, and office work. The second part of the series will focus more on high-end builds designed for demanding tasks such as gaming, video editing, and 3D modeling.

Finally, I'll be teaming up with some other PC enthusiasts to bring you a special crossfire video that showcases AMD GPUs in harmony. We'll also be exploring new technologies such as Direct X 12 and its potential applications for real-world use cases like video editing and gaming.

In the coming weeks, expect to see more PC build videos, tech topics discussions, and possibly even some part reviews. I'm excited to share my knowledge and expertise with you, and I hope you'll join me on this journey as we explore the world of PC building together.

"WEBVTTKind: captionsLanguage: enwelcome back to another geek wat video and this is part 3 where I'm going to benchmark and show you the performance of this build and let me start off by saying I was very impressed this is part three of my 800 pounds of nine hundred dollar build guard before the build and the benchmarks commenced I just like to flip this round to first show you the build just up there and also show you the monitor I'm gonna be using the benchmark purposes this is the aoc g20 460 PF it's a 144 hurts freesync panel which you can't quite see however that's what benchmarks are going to be on if the framerate does exceed 250 for her tits because I'm not limiting the frame rate to the monitor and vsync won't be turned on instead freaking will be turned on because it's a fresh suit monitor anyway let's put me in the top corner let's put the benchmarks down here and I'm going to talk about a few notable points during this bill that are worth keeping in mind for 1440p gaming the four gigabyte frame buffer on the r9 380 x was definitely needed there's no point in going for a 2 gigabyte card if you're going to get to 380 x even for 1080p and turning textures up getting four gig 380 x is crucial a very very very key it's also worth noting that goes to the CPU we went before it was very important to get an aftermarket cooler the 8370 does come with amd's new race color however that was that is a superb stock called out and whilst that is innovation if you do want to overclock I highly highly recommend going for amd's FX 83 2589 and cheap a couple of also notable points if you want to go for a smaller case feel free that's an ATX full tower a monster I really wouldn't change that case because it is so nice and so great to build in easily the best case I've ever worked with it is a bit on the big side so if you did want something smaller that is worth it keeping in mind that's basically all I have to say about that and now that the game in benchmarks are finished let's put me back down here like so and I'm gonna talk a little bit about the editing performance before I move on to the special announcement at the end this video so but editing performance how was it now the editing performance in premiere pro and adobe media encoder so that's a standard piece by piece edit with a few visual effects and that kind of thing was very good you see the cpu core utilization where every core gets used and that you suck that stuff that's a really good thing about the cpu having eight physical cause if i can count to eight have an eight physical cause is way better than four hyper threaded and for physical cause it's something that you might get for example on an intel core i5 6600 k not to say that this chip is stronger than I 560 600 k but for editing I definitely prefer at this AMD cpu having a caller on there for something like anything is also very important and you will notice in gaming you tend to have caused 0 core to call for and court six tend to be used at more than the other course because it's only using those book that those book for courts for something like after effects however this PC just slipped behind now why does it slip behind when in Premiere Pro and adobe media encoder rendering out and editing footage that you will actually use the CPU and the RAM and the GPU the GPU is a big big one that when it comes to editing transcoding and rendering after effects however only uses CPU and RAM and only have an eight gigabytes of RAM in this build did stomp it up a little bit it is worth noting though if you're doing a premier protein at 1080p and 1440p you'll be absolutely fine of even little bit of 4k editing and if you're going to do an after effects you may want to stick to 1080 and 1440p especially at 30 frames per second because you have to remember if you're editing in 60 frames per second or creating visual effects in 60 frames per second you are rendering out twice the pixels in comparison to 30 frames per second the vast the editing performance I was very happy with a gaming performance got some stunning footage now I'm going to roll a montage of some synthetic benchmarks will I have back to that top corner and then I'm going to talk about the special announcement you you so that's the synthetic benchmarks can easily compare those benchmarks to other people with other bills loads of people use those synthetic benchmarks whether the real world ones are a bit more sort of comparable if you wish because if you will because they're easier to relate to synthetic benchmarks at the end of their just a number you're never going to really end you know I mean rendering out some sparkly ball or going through something with aliens and stuff like that now for the special announcement and the special announcement isn't what people think it is i'm going to try and do this three part series every single every single man i'm trying my very very best to get my hands on some other parts and that kind of thing yep i'm trying but the next couple of weeks are quite big week for me so i'm going back to school and i'm going back to school the day after this video's hop I've got school for a week as normal and then I've got a week of just mock exams so that's like the exams before the real exams and they like give you an idea of what you should get what should improve on so as you can imagine i'm spending next week when having got exams and then the week of exams sort of revising and then doing the exams so what does that mean no videos nah i've been working at my absolute ass off over here doing a load of pc bugs got a load of them rendered you know it's my two hundred dollar build kicked it off yesterday with a storm that's gone down really well so drop a like rating on that and then watch that in the card section either here or here if you haven't already I don't know which side so yet go and have a look at that and I'm just going to be doing two weeks of just solid pc build I'm going to try and do a pc build like most days every other day I think it's going to be I might match it up with a bit of tech topics videos where I talk about tech and possibly some part reviews as well after that but turton you've got you don't you doing it's just go enough doesn't Captain America just look badass anyway yeah I'm going to do two weeks of just pc build Zender should be back on the ground as normal doing a load of reviews I've got a very very exciting crossfire video coming up actually possibly a series possibly build God I don't know but I'm going to be putting I'm not going to spoil it actually but i'm going to AMD GPUs together in harmony in a pc and then as soon as Direct X 12 comes out and we do some very very exciting stuff with having a machine that can both edit videos and gain at the same time with a little bit of virtualization as well fingers crossed for that so that wraps it up for this video video video video make sure to drop a like rating and subscribe if you haven't already if you want to see more of these make sure to tweet this video snapchat it Instagram it Facebook it pinterest it they're not share it about and then yeah I'll see you in the next geek or what videowelcome back to another geek wat video and this is part 3 where I'm going to benchmark and show you the performance of this build and let me start off by saying I was very impressed this is part three of my 800 pounds of nine hundred dollar build guard before the build and the benchmarks commenced I just like to flip this round to first show you the build just up there and also show you the monitor I'm gonna be using the benchmark purposes this is the aoc g20 460 PF it's a 144 hurts freesync panel which you can't quite see however that's what benchmarks are going to be on if the framerate does exceed 250 for her tits because I'm not limiting the frame rate to the monitor and vsync won't be turned on instead freaking will be turned on because it's a fresh suit monitor anyway let's put me in the top corner let's put the benchmarks down here and I'm going to talk about a few notable points during this bill that are worth keeping in mind for 1440p gaming the four gigabyte frame buffer on the r9 380 x was definitely needed there's no point in going for a 2 gigabyte card if you're going to get to 380 x even for 1080p and turning textures up getting four gig 380 x is crucial a very very very key it's also worth noting that goes to the CPU we went before it was very important to get an aftermarket cooler the 8370 does come with amd's new race color however that was that is a superb stock called out and whilst that is innovation if you do want to overclock I highly highly recommend going for amd's FX 83 2589 and cheap a couple of also notable points if you want to go for a smaller case feel free that's an ATX full tower a monster I really wouldn't change that case because it is so nice and so great to build in easily the best case I've ever worked with it is a bit on the big side so if you did want something smaller that is worth it keeping in mind that's basically all I have to say about that and now that the game in benchmarks are finished let's put me back down here like so and I'm gonna talk a little bit about the editing performance before I move on to the special announcement at the end this video so but editing performance how was it now the editing performance in premiere pro and adobe media encoder so that's a standard piece by piece edit with a few visual effects and that kind of thing was very good you see the cpu core utilization where every core gets used and that you suck that stuff that's a really good thing about the cpu having eight physical cause if i can count to eight have an eight physical cause is way better than four hyper threaded and for physical cause it's something that you might get for example on an intel core i5 6600 k not to say that this chip is stronger than I 560 600 k but for editing I definitely prefer at this AMD cpu having a caller on there for something like anything is also very important and you will notice in gaming you tend to have caused 0 core to call for and court six tend to be used at more than the other course because it's only using those book that those book for courts for something like after effects however this PC just slipped behind now why does it slip behind when in Premiere Pro and adobe media encoder rendering out and editing footage that you will actually use the CPU and the RAM and the GPU the GPU is a big big one that when it comes to editing transcoding and rendering after effects however only uses CPU and RAM and only have an eight gigabytes of RAM in this build did stomp it up a little bit it is worth noting though if you're doing a premier protein at 1080p and 1440p you'll be absolutely fine of even little bit of 4k editing and if you're going to do an after effects you may want to stick to 1080 and 1440p especially at 30 frames per second because you have to remember if you're editing in 60 frames per second or creating visual effects in 60 frames per second you are rendering out twice the pixels in comparison to 30 frames per second the vast the editing performance I was very happy with a gaming performance got some stunning footage now I'm going to roll a montage of some synthetic benchmarks will I have back to that top corner and then I'm going to talk about the special announcement you you so that's the synthetic benchmarks can easily compare those benchmarks to other people with other bills loads of people use those synthetic benchmarks whether the real world ones are a bit more sort of comparable if you wish because if you will because they're easier to relate to synthetic benchmarks at the end of their just a number you're never going to really end you know I mean rendering out some sparkly ball or going through something with aliens and stuff like that now for the special announcement and the special announcement isn't what people think it is i'm going to try and do this three part series every single every single man i'm trying my very very best to get my hands on some other parts and that kind of thing yep i'm trying but the next couple of weeks are quite big week for me so i'm going back to school and i'm going back to school the day after this video's hop I've got school for a week as normal and then I've got a week of just mock exams so that's like the exams before the real exams and they like give you an idea of what you should get what should improve on so as you can imagine i'm spending next week when having got exams and then the week of exams sort of revising and then doing the exams so what does that mean no videos nah i've been working at my absolute ass off over here doing a load of pc bugs got a load of them rendered you know it's my two hundred dollar build kicked it off yesterday with a storm that's gone down really well so drop a like rating on that and then watch that in the card section either here or here if you haven't already I don't know which side so yet go and have a look at that and I'm just going to be doing two weeks of just solid pc build I'm going to try and do a pc build like most days every other day I think it's going to be I might match it up with a bit of tech topics videos where I talk about tech and possibly some part reviews as well after that but turton you've got you don't you doing it's just go enough doesn't Captain America just look badass anyway yeah I'm going to do two weeks of just pc build Zender should be back on the ground as normal doing a load of reviews I've got a very very exciting crossfire video coming up actually possibly a series possibly build God I don't know but I'm going to be putting I'm not going to spoil it actually but i'm going to AMD GPUs together in harmony in a pc and then as soon as Direct X 12 comes out and we do some very very exciting stuff with having a machine that can both edit videos and gain at the same time with a little bit of virtualization as well fingers crossed for that so that wraps it up for this video video video video make sure to drop a like rating and subscribe if you haven't already if you want to see more of these make sure to tweet this video snapchat it Instagram it Facebook it pinterest it they're not share it about and then yeah I'll see you in the next geek or what video\n"