No idea what I'm doing - looking for a video editing desktop

ScarySquirrel

Active member
Hi all,

I'm typing this on a laptop I bought from PC Specialist in 2013. It's still going strong, which to me is seriously impressive. The only reason I'm posting this is because I've been flying FPV quads for the last year, and recently got a GoPro. This laptop unfortunately is really struggling when it comes to editing footage, which is understandable.

I am about 10+ years out of the loop when it comes to PC parts, and it's quite overwhelming trying to get back into it. I'm looking for a desktop from PC Specialist for around £1,200 max budget, that will allow me to edit my GoPro footage and just be a decent general PC for the next 6+ years. I usually film at 2.7k, but I don't want to rule out editing 4K footage.

I don't need the desktop to be top of the line or a complete beast of a machine. I will be fairly casually editing footage, so if it takes time to render something that really doesn't matter. I'm just looking for good value and something that will last a decent amount of time. I don't need to be able to play games on it, I've got an Xbox for that.

From the basic research I've done, I'm pretty set on an AMD Ryzen CPU. But where I need help from the community is understanding where the best value is the be had across all components.

Can anyone help please? Thanks

EDIT: I could maybe stretch to the Studio Pro (minus operating system as I have Windows 10 associated with my MS account, so I'm hoping I could just transfer it?) - would that be a good choice?
 
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Aza

Rising Star
This may help
There are a few posts pinned at the top of the "Check this spec" forum section, worth a read through it will give a lot of background and advice (its where the above one came from)
 

ScarySquirrel

Active member
This may help
There are a few posts pinned at the top of the "Check this spec" forum section, worth a read through it will give a lot of background and advice (its where the above one came from)
Thanks for sharing. So Intel is actually the better value choice at the moment?
 

Aza

Rising Star
When I put mine together AMD was a clear leader, the Intel 12th gen seem to have pushed ahead when it comes to price/power but Ive also seen a post about the 5800X3D changing that a little, but youll need someone who really knows this stuff to give advice there I think i'm a year or so behind.

Reading that post it seems to talk more about gaming, where you are talking about video editing, so again, having someone with better knowledge will really help with that question, I built mine with the main focus on gaming so it does change how you spec quite significantly.
 
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