Hello,
My last two computers have been pcspecialist machines, most recently a laptop, but I think it’s time for a new desktop. I’m increasingly editing videos and the laptop sounds like it’s trying to take off.....! I’m sure its not good for it.
My older machine is a desktop, but as a recent enquiry on these forums revealed, it’s a little too old to be updated.
Also, the desktop was a big old Coolermaster case which is way too big for my flat, but it was virtually empty inside. I was using the bare minimum of its physical capacities which is why I’m hoping I can get what I need out of a smaller case.
I’ve been poking around on the system maker, but I’m finding it a little difficult as it doesn’t seem to display prices on the drop down menus (unless I’m doing something wrong?!) and also I’ve long ago lost touch with what specs I need. I find this especially tricky with graphics cards as there is a much greater array of options than there used to be which primarily seems to be variations of their memory, in which case I would usually go for the best that I can afford. Which is tricky to do when the aren’t individually priced.
Anyway, enough waffle...
TL;DR.......could someone please give some advice for a pc that is as small as possible without having to make a performance sacrifice.
It will primarily be used for editing looong videos (3 hour stage plays FML....)using Premier Pro. Footage is often 4K usually rendering down to HD. I have recently decided it is better to have my footage on an external USB3 drive and edit it from there (unless you think differently....?) and therefore I don’t need the huge storage associated with video. Again, happy to take advice but I’d be minded to have an SSD as the main storage and maybe a second for what stuff does get stored on board.
I will play games too when I’m supposed to be editing, stuff like a Total War title, but I’m unlikely to have more than a couple of games installed at a time, and I don’t need to play them at cutting edge settings.
I don’t need separate sound cards or optical drives etc etc
I don’t expect to spend less than £1k and would struggle to pay more than £1.5k but again am happy to take advice if that’s not enough?
Is that enough info?
Thanks in advance for any help!
My last two computers have been pcspecialist machines, most recently a laptop, but I think it’s time for a new desktop. I’m increasingly editing videos and the laptop sounds like it’s trying to take off.....! I’m sure its not good for it.
My older machine is a desktop, but as a recent enquiry on these forums revealed, it’s a little too old to be updated.
Also, the desktop was a big old Coolermaster case which is way too big for my flat, but it was virtually empty inside. I was using the bare minimum of its physical capacities which is why I’m hoping I can get what I need out of a smaller case.
I’ve been poking around on the system maker, but I’m finding it a little difficult as it doesn’t seem to display prices on the drop down menus (unless I’m doing something wrong?!) and also I’ve long ago lost touch with what specs I need. I find this especially tricky with graphics cards as there is a much greater array of options than there used to be which primarily seems to be variations of their memory, in which case I would usually go for the best that I can afford. Which is tricky to do when the aren’t individually priced.
Anyway, enough waffle...
TL;DR.......could someone please give some advice for a pc that is as small as possible without having to make a performance sacrifice.
It will primarily be used for editing looong videos (3 hour stage plays FML....)using Premier Pro. Footage is often 4K usually rendering down to HD. I have recently decided it is better to have my footage on an external USB3 drive and edit it from there (unless you think differently....?) and therefore I don’t need the huge storage associated with video. Again, happy to take advice but I’d be minded to have an SSD as the main storage and maybe a second for what stuff does get stored on board.
I will play games too when I’m supposed to be editing, stuff like a Total War title, but I’m unlikely to have more than a couple of games installed at a time, and I don’t need to play them at cutting edge settings.
I don’t need separate sound cards or optical drives etc etc
I don’t expect to spend less than £1k and would struggle to pay more than £1.5k but again am happy to take advice if that’s not enough?
Is that enough info?
Thanks in advance for any help!
