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Been out of touch for a while,

What is currently a good cpu/mobo combination for video editing? Have SSD's. Pricing under $1000 for both.

Is there a current sweet spot amongst all the searching I've done? For example like the i7 920 when it came out..

Cheers,
Luca
 
Personally I think the i7 5820k is in a great spot. It offers great performance and is relatively cheap for an enthusiast chip. The six cores help quite a bit versus 4 in the mainstream line.
 
i dont do video editing, so wont pretend to have better advice than the other opinions, but the chip outers picked sells for $299 at microcenter...thats 12 threads lol...pick a mobo, they have bundles going on with that chip right now...asrock x99 extreme 4 and that chip for $449...of course, newegg still sells the board cheaper
 
ASUS Z170-Deluxe + Core i7 6700K. That would be my vote.
 
I'm tempted to say go with the 5820K / X99 setup here, but the 6700K/Z170 is actually gonna be faster in most cases, outside of pure grunt loads.

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X99 is better both for multithreaded applications and for I/O ability. While the 5820K doesn't have all the lanes available, one can change the processor in the future if needed to get all 40.

The mainstream platform has always sucked for I/O, and is permanently stuck on 4 cores. So if you want something better, pick up an X99 system.
 
don't be fooled by all this PCIe lane nonsense.

If you are really just using it for video editing then you can with the 6700k you have more then enough power and you wont have to purchase a video card unless you also plan to do some gaming.

PCIe lanes are only something to worry about if you plan to run SLI video cards and PCIe SSds and M.2 etc.
Sometimes I wonder if the people on this board actually use a computer or just run benchmarks all day.

Both the 5820k and 6700k will do a good job for you, out of the box the 6700k will be better because even in multi threaded apps raw speed is king. Overclocked in multi threaded apps the 5820k is faster, but don't be fooled its not a huge speed difference. If you actually need the higher I/O because you plan to connect a lot of stuff then yeah go for the 5820k otherwise 6700k is my pick with ASUS MAX ROG Ranger. I think the Deluxe board is good but overpriced.

Neither is a bad choice, the only issue with the 6700k is availability in the U.S.
lastly the z170 boards are the high end overclocker boards, they just released a bunch of other chipsets that are much cheaper options if you do not plan to overclock,so if you wait a few weeks there might be better low cost options for 6700k motherboards.

This is kind of a very hot topic, you threw a grenade into the middle of a battle by asking what CPU to use lol.
 
6700K for video work is pure nonsense. Video codecs can fully utilize all threads. And video editing means a lot of io operations which always sucked on non-enthusiast platforms so far. I'm cursing every day becauae my employer decided to get Z97 + 4790 for IO intensive work, and it's crap. And the more cores the better. So 5820K or 5960X are the only sane choices, but latter is out of the price range. So 5820K it is.
 
atp1916 said:
I'm tempted to say go with the 5820K / X99 setup here, but the 6700K/Z170 is actually gonna be faster in most cases, outside of pure grunt loads.

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That shows you exactly what you'd expect to see...the 6700k with it's 700mhz stock speed bump is going to shine in single threaded cases, and the 5820k is better in multi-threaded applications. Since the OP says he is editing video, it looks like a 5820k is a better choice.
 
Yeah that 5820k looks fun. Will be overclocking for sure.

I have a six core Xeon 5670 oc'd to 4.2ghz, do you think I would see a real world improvement when video editing with the x99 chipsets?
 
Luca1 said:
Yeah that 5820k looks fun. Will be overclocking for sure.

I have a six core Xeon 5670 oc'd to 4.2ghz, do you think I would see a real world improvement when video editing with the x99 chipsets?
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Yes...Matter of fact is the only thing i personally would upgrade to.:)
 
Luca1 said:
What makes you say that? Vs the previous options
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outers said:
I'm curious about his choice as well. I've done a decent amount of video editing and rendering and more cores has always helped
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Actually I didn't get the part about it being for video editing. That's what I get for browsing the forum drunk.
 
Luca1 said:
Been out of touch for a while,

What is currently a good cpu/mobo combination for video editing? Have SSD's. Pricing under $1000 for both.

Is there a current sweet spot amongst all the searching I've done? For example like the i7 920 when it came out..

Cheers,
Luca
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What application are you using for video editing?

I ask because depending on the program(EG. Adobe Premier) you will get better performance by using GPU based processing. So if you do a lot of it, maybe what you need is a tri-sli setup and a 40 lane xeon like a 2620 v3.
 
The Lurker said:
What application are you using for video editing?

I ask because depending on the program(EG. Adobe Premier) you will get better performance by using GPU based processing. So if you do a lot of it, maybe what you need is a tri-sli setup and a 40 lane xeon like a 2620 v3.
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Sony Vegas at the moment for quick edits, Premiere Pro when I have something more detailed.

Just can't seem to preview clips decently I Vegas when there are fades etc.. Thinking a new chip might help, and reduce rendering times simultaneously
 
Luca1 said:
Do you do video editing Primetime? If so what software do you use and does the 5670 suit what your doing?
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To be honest i don't video edit per say, BUT i do convert all my blue ray disks to single dvd5 size files for easy access on the living room tv....and i mostly use BD_Rebuilder for doing that task....It uses all my cpu cores for around 2 hours per disk;)
 
i want to upgrade also, now i have a 4770k but i wont buy a 6700k. i am wainting for something like a 6930k. now thats upgrading imo.
 
AndreRio said:
i want to upgrade also, now i have a 4770k but i wont buy a 6700k. i am wainting for something like a 6930k. now thats upgrading imo.
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It really depends on what you're doing. I went from a 2600k to a 3930k and it was a huge jump in performance for what I was doing with it.
 
5820k because DDR4 and 4GHz is pretty much a gimme and if you can get it to 4.5GHz, for the most part every processor until Skylake-E will be irrelevant which unfortunately will require a new mobo but at least you get to keep the DDR4.
 
PliotronX said:
5820k because DDR4 and 4GHz is pretty much a gimme and if you can get it to 4.5GHz, for the most part every processor until Skylake-E will be irrelevant which unfortunately will require a new mobo but at least you get to keep the DDR4.
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So you reckon wait until skylake-e would be a smarter option? The 6700k looks like the goods so far from the bits I've seen. Then there will be the revisions in Q3 2016 looking at the leaked Intel road map, I wonder if that would be worth holding off for?

I don't mind waiting for a sweet spot. Did that with i7920 and got 5 years out of that chip..
 
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