How I Built A PC From Scratch For My Video Editing Job

Video Editining requires extremely strong processors, a good cooling system, lots of Ram and a batch of fast drives. Let me show you how I made mine

Let's start with the a nice sleek box. It's the Fractal DesignDefine R4 Arctic White: $95

The heart of the PC, the Mother Board: ASUS P9 X79 PRO: $243

6Gb/s eSATA support,
6 ports of USB 3.0
8 x DIMM Slots, Quad-channel DDR3
Digital 8+2 Phase Power Design
2 x PCIe 3.0 x16 (dual@x16)
AMD Quad-GPU CrossFireX and NVIDIA Quad-GPU SLI support

The heart of the PC, the Mother Board: ASUS P9 X79 PRO: $243

The heart of the PC, the Mother Board: ASUS P9 X79 PRO: $243

The Brains of the PC:
Processor and RAM

Intel Core i7-4770K Quad-Core Desktop Processor 3.5 GHZ 8 MB Cache : $320

Corsair Vengeance 32GB (4x8GB) DDR3 1600 Mhz: $335

Corsair Vengeance 32GB (4x8GB) DDR3 1600 Mhz: $335

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Graphics Card

I went for the EVGA GeForce GTX 680 : $605Base Clock: 1111 MHz

Boost Clock: 1176 MHz

Memory Clock: 6008 MHz

CUDA Cores: 1536

PCI-Express 3.0

4096MB GDDR5 256 bit

NVidia SMX Engine, NVidia GPU Boost, NVidia Adaptive Vertical Sync, NVidia Surround, Support for Concurrent Displays, NVidia PhysX, NVidia 3D Vision Ready, NVidia SLI Ready, NVidia CUDA Technology

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Water Cooler and Power Supplier

Corsair Hydro Series Extreme Performance Liquid CPU Cooler H100i: $95

Corsair Professional Series HX 750 Watt ATX/EPS Modular 80 PLUS Gold : $142

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The Main Hard Drive

Corsair Force GT SATA 3: $215Sequential read speeds of up to 555 MB/s

Sequential write speeds of up to 525 MB/s

SATA 3 connectivity? Works seamlessly with SATA 6Gb/s (SATA 3) systems

Backward compatible?Works with SATA 3Gb/s (SATA 2) systems

High performance SandForce SF-2200 SSD controller

Included 2.5" to 3.5" bracket for installation on your desktop computer

Significantly lower power usage than traditional hard drives for increased notebook battery life

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