Advice & Tips for Hardware-Layman's planned Editing Workstation

[Maxi B. V.]

Heyho friendly experts,

I recently finished my film production study and want to spend my upcoming months
on trying out different independent multi-media and short film projects to put myself out there.

For that reason, I'm looking to set me up with a full hardware configuration at home, meaning
I'll also need a new PC altogether. After researching a bit, I decided to build one on my own for
the first time.

It's main purpose will primarily be video editing, secondarily light gaming, but that's really, really
secondary.

Now, I am fairly inexperienced when it comes to the intricacies of PC components, so I tried
using this site's Builder to get an overview of what I need specifically.

Here's what I got out of it with my 2000-2400$ budget:

CGDirector.com Parts List: https://www.cgdirector.com/pc-builder/?=yb1DgpciEml

CPU: AMD Ryzen 9 3900X 3.8GHz 12-Core Processor ($429.99)
CPU Cooler: be quiet! Dark Rock Pro 4 ($89.90)
Motherboard: MSI X570 Tomahawk ATX AM4 ($303.58)
GPU: Nvidia RTX 2060 SUPER 8GB - MSI Gaming X ($499.00)
Memory: 32GB (2 x 16GB) Corsair Vengeance LPX DDR4-3200 C16 ($114.99)
Storage SSD: Crucial MX500 2TB 2.5" Solid State Drive ($221.99)
Storage PCIe-SSD: Samsung 970 EVO 1TB M.2 Solid State Drive ($168.67)
Storage HDD: Seagate BarraCuda Compute 4TB, 3.5" ($89.55)
Power Supply: Corsair CX Series CX550M 550W ATX 2.4 Power Supply ($85.99)
Case: Corsair Carbide Series Air 540 ($163.97)
Total: $2167.63

I certainly will switch out the Ryzen 9 3900X for a 3950X and I need an internal blu ray drive
of some quality, so I'll also need a case large enough to hold all these parts, but other than that,
due to being not very well versed in the building process and the inner workings,
I can't tell what else might be problematic or at least what is worth reconsidering.

So yeah, I'm hoping someone can give me a somewhat detailed rundown of what to do
right and what to avoid given my individual situation.

My budget is, let's say, 2500$ at absolute max, I probably won't upgrade the device anytime soon,
but maybe after two or three years if it's close to necessary I'll consider it, and I will have the parts
shipped to Germany, if that makes a difference at all.

I'm already grateful for anybody who can contribute and help me out a bit.
If there's anything I need to clarify or expound upon, just let me know.

Thank y'all so much!
Maxi B. V.

 

[Alex Glawion]

Hey Maxi,
The Corsair Carbide Series Air 540 has room for a Blu Ray Drive, so no problems there. You can easily swap out the 3900X for a 3950X, it's fully compatible with the rest of the components.

The build will run Video Editing and Gaming workloads very well. You have a strong CPU and GPU, a lot of RAM and some great storage devices in there, so there really isn't much you can do wrong here.

You can get the parts at mindfactory, alternate, or amazon for example and assemble it yourself. Or get a pre-built with similar parts, but pre-builts will be a bit more expensive.