General use with video editing

[Symes]

Hi All,

Need a bit of guidance here. Last bought a PC from PC Specialist in late 2010 - spec at the time was fairly good with i7-950 it is still working now with minimal updates - a fan in the power supply had to be replaced, the storage had an issue during warranty period but was replaced I upgraded this anyway so the replacement drive is still in the build as extra storage. I do some video editing using Sony Vegas which works fine although does take some time when rendering not sure how much quicker a new computer would be anyway. I had been thinking of upgrading the output to Blue ray over the current DVD's.

The question is how much do I spend to get a system similair to that that I had before with the same longevity. There are a couple of systems in the specialist video editing area, one at £2120 Nebula Pro (dont like the case anyway) or should I send the boat out and go for a Nebula Goliath at around £3K both need storage drives adding etc so cost would increase over this anyway. Little worried about coolers and maintenance and Yes I do kind of prefer an Intel processor.

Gaming I do not do.

 

[Ekans2011]

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INTEL is not worth anything, they are defective processors; no one would recommend them.

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[BlessedSquirrel]

Hi All,

Need a bit of guidance here. Last bought a PC from PC Specialist in late 2010 - spec at the time was fairly good with i7-950 it is still working now with minimal updates - a fan in the power supply had to be replaced, the storage had an issue during warranty period but was replaced I upgraded this anyway so the replacement drive is still in the build as extra storage. I do some video editing using Sony Vegas which works fine although does take some time when rendering not sure how much quicker a new computer would be anyway. I had been thinking of upgrading the output to Blue ray over the current DVD's.

The question is how much do I spend to get a system similair to that that I had before with the same longevity. There are a couple of systems in the specialist video editing area, one at £2120 Nebula Pro (dont like the case anyway) or should I send the boat out and go for a Nebula Goliath at around £3K both need storage drives adding etc so cost would increase over this anyway. Little worried about coolers and maintenance and Yes I do kind of prefer an Intel processor.

Gaming I do not do.

Intel are broken, they literally melt at the core, Intel replaced affected processors last september and rolled out 4 microcode fixes, each claiming to be “the fix” but we’ve started getting new reports of those replacements failing so it’s clear it’s not fixed

Not sure if you’ve seen the news over the past few years but Intel are in dire straits, they’ve had a string of faulty generations and are not doing well at all, there’s even talks of a buyout

Intel's rise and fall: A timeline of what went wrong

Explore Intel's rise and fall, from tech dominance to decline, facing tough competition and dealing with past decisions that shaped its current challenges.

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AMD have been the go to processors for a number of years now, even if Intel chips didnt melt they’d still be miles behind in almost every metric like performance, efficiency, thermals and cost