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New Editing PC Build Plan

Aug 15, 2018 3:25PM PDT

Hello everyone, hope you're all having a wonderful day. I just need help and advice planning my first PC build. I need a good PC which can smoothly edit up to 4k footage, run 3 monitors(1 4k and others just normal FHD) and a 4k tv. I have not spent any money so far and have just been trying to plan a good PC that will last a long time. A few of my friends have suggested these ideas; 1920x with a GTX 1080 or i7 8th gen. I was first thinking of going big with a really high budget and an overkill PC with i9 7980xe, GTX 1080Ti, 64gb Ram. I dont even know much about build but I've tried to do some research and get an idea of what I want. Money isn't really a problem, its just that I don't want to over spend money on something that I will only use for editing and rarely 4k footage. Thank you for reading. Please reply if you could help me out with suggestions. Enjoy your day. Happy

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4K editing is IMO, never smooth.
Aug 15, 2018 3:43PM PDT
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4k editing is on rare occasions.
Aug 15, 2018 4:11PM PDT

Hello, thanks for your reply. I would only edit 4k for a few edits for example my mavic pro footage or something like that. I will check out the link later on as its really late. Thanks a lot.

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If I was to build an i9 today.
Aug 15, 2018 4:30PM PDT

I'd copy builds folk have done before. Nod to Linus's i9 builds.

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Thanks a lot.
Aug 16, 2018 3:04AM PDT

I've checked out that build plan and it looks really good. I will consider building that soon. Any modifications you think I should make?

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Just as you think are needed.
Aug 16, 2018 8:02AM PDT

Let's say you don't like the case or the video card. Change as you think is required.