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Halcyon:
Do you have a "reference" PC you can use for comparison? i.e.: Load some software on it, get him to do some editing, see where it struggles. At least that will give you a "baseline" of where to go from there?

In a nutshell, take a look at CPU benchmarks and determine "bang for buck" based on your budget. PassMark's Low-to-Mid tier chart is a good place to start. It will include both old and new CPUs so you can compare them against each other. All decent video editors (including OpenShot) support multi-threading and will take advantage of multiple cores.

The other is RAM, as I mentioned earlier, the more the better.

Another thing you'll want to consider is the hard disk, definitely use an SSD, if not for the operating system itself, definitely for the scratch disk (although both is preferred). 512GB SSDs are relatively cheap these days.

Without knowing your budget and what kind of video he is editing, it's hard to be more specific.
beanflying:

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--- Quote from: beanflying on February 17, 2020, 03:53:35 am ---Even video scrubbing with an I3 on 1080P sucked which made editing suck. So even if you are splicing and adding a few bits in you need some processing and speed behind it. While the SSD it maybe optional at 1080P it still makes sense IMO.

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What is your source codec config? Proxies/intermediaries/cache/scratch?

Editing multiple 1080p streams in realtime has been practical for over 10 years, people got by ok with dual core processors under 2GHz (and much less). It takes very little skill to do something inefficiently/poorly, and throwing more hardware at the problem hides the real performance available if you'd just take some time to learn about the tools available.
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That system has been relegated to driving my Laser Cutter and CNC so I stripped Davinci off it so  :-// on the last settings. Also it didn't have an SSD which won't have been helping. I had tried some tweaks done some looking at optimizing it but as my drones and Cameras shoot 4K it wasn't going to remain viable and keeping the resolution down to 1080P because of a PC limitation is less than ideal.
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If you can't remember what you were doing, and don't understand why that might have been a bad choice, perhaps your advice might be equally misinformed? The codecs used are a fundamental part of a video workflow and have enormous impact on the processor load, disk bandwidth, and storage requirements. 1080 in a suitable intermediate codec is not a challenge for any recent computer.

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Seriously take your superiority complex and place is somewhere else ! Perhaps you would like to make some CONSTRUCTIVE and helpful comments as to settings for limited hardware for us mere mortals.  :palm:

My current 3700X and associated bits chew up and spit out 4K so I am not having an issue of any sort that needs resolving.
beanflying:
This is one of the videos I watched prior to building my latest box. I was building to CAD/Rendering with 'some' video so the mix is a bit different. He and Justin Brown are worth a watch among others https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCO4Nw0vUpxgb0zsziJ1SaMg

davelectronic:
I've got not a lot of experience in video editing, from what my Son shows me, he puts clips of super heroes together. It loks reasonably seamless with some fast action content. He also adds music tracks to the length of the video. I'm of little help with video editing, he has mentioned starting a YouTube channel in the near future.

From what i can glean from the internet is the cpu does a lot of the work, and a reasonable amount of memory is also a must. I have read a gpu can be less critical, although i wouldn't get a useless card for this system he wants. What sellers want for old hardware in some cases is just daft. For now i have crossed out AMD as pointed out it can be pedantic at times. I'm looking at the fastest 775T core 2 quad Q9650 or 1155 socket and an earlier I7 second or third generation processor. As for Ram, 16Gb in 4 slots. The memory can be a bit tricky to find second hand. Brand new hardware is out of the question for now.
Thanks for all the tips and replys.
Halcyon:
Keep us updated on what you decide to get.
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