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What do you edit on? NLEs vary as to what performs best on what - Resolve likes a beefy GPU, Premiere likes a zippy CPU. Resolve likes more CPU cores, Prem likes faster ones.
What are you trying to edit (type of file/format/length/process - are you just editing, doing graphics, heavy grades, multiple nodes/layers etc)?
What do you find is the problem?
I had a similarly specced imac to your current machine and found editing OK in Resolve assuming I used proxies, but renders were often overnight jobs depending on the length of timeline. I put this together in January:
3950x / vision b550 d / vision 3090 / 64gb 3600 corsair vengeance rgb (2x32gb) /
wd black sn850 2tb / noctua nh d15s / 4 x nf s12a / corsair 4000d airflowI mostly edit native BRAW, R3D and ARRIRAW files. I don't convert much if ever to an edit friendly codec/wrapper whereas I had to before. Now if I receive some compressed files from a smaller camera that are h264/h265, I just churn through them. Before I was getting 10 frames a second timeline on quarter resolution playback. Do recommend. First link looks very solid for the money but depending what you edit on I'd def consider getting the 5950x rather than the 5900 for the extra cores.
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For £2500 I’ll sell you my threadripper / 4 x 1080ti workstation with full custom waterloop.
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In my continual very slow paced quest to get a new video editing PC, can I get some advice from someone who understands all this better than me?
These alienware dell ones seem pretty good value? https://deals.dell.com/en-uk/productdetail/7dip Or am I missing something? Seems better spec than Pcspecialist or Scan offer for the money at moment. Might be willing to go for next model up which is approx £2500.
My alternative is to upgrade my current struggling system, which is a:
Intel(R) Core(TM) i7-4790K CPU @ 4.00GHz 4.00 GHz
32gb ram and an AMD Radeon R9 200
But I don't have time to mess around doing anything complicated so would probably want to pay someone to do it for me if I was to upgrade. But am guessing I'd be better just selling existing PC second hand to recoup some costs? Am happy to transfer over hard drives and whatever, but don't want to do anything that risks leaving me unable to work for a while.