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Premiere + bits of After effects. Though just had to do some hi-res print stuff in Photoshop and computer was even struggling with that. Video is all social media type stuff, nothing at all high end, so my needs sound very different to yours, but I get all sorts of source material & then tend to plaster effects on it/add motion graphics, etc.
Current computer just gets very slow + some effects don't seem to work at all. It's got to the point where I just work round it and avoid things that I know will take ages , but I feel this is preventing me learning/doing new things, which can't be healthy. I recently had a project where I started doing some fairly basic After Effects 3d and by the end of it I was basically having to work blind because I couldn't preview anything.
t does seem like that Alienware might be a good bet, but I don't really understand enough about processors nowadays, so that's helpful.
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If you can afford it, the 5950x is basically as good as it gets before you're into thread ripper territory, so should see you sorted for a while. I'm surprised the whole build is that cheap in honesty - I think I paid around 5k for mine in parts - I know my 3090 was around 2k alone so I guess that's where most of it went.
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Try to find reviews for the model you want, from what remember Dell/Alienware/HP and similar manufacturers tend to have underpowered cooling solutions which might cause the system to be either insanely loud or throttle the speed of the CPU or GPU.
You will also have to check if you get the correct ram with the system and if things like the firmware actually support the hardware it comes with. I have a Lenovo desktop and the bios it came with didn't support the GPU properly so it would crash any program that put a bit of load on it after about 30min.
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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 airflow
I 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.