Building a PC for content editing!
After my 1300 miles road trip I came home with a bit more than 400Gbs of data. All of that date came from my iPhone Xs Max, my GoPro Hero 5 and my Canon T2i. Pictures, videos, time-lapses, voice recordings, you mane it. I took my laptop with me during my adventure to download the content daily to free the memory cards and to better short the content. Once at home, I started to transfer those 400 GBs to my main PC to then back it up to my FREENAS (Home Server) but I ran into three major issues....
It was the first PC I built. It happened back in 2009 when I was still in school and had a PC support side gig. Some day I'll share that story. The PC was build for gaming needs to ensure it could handled my photography hobby, multitasking, school labs and whatever. At the time, this motherboard and processor (both Intel) were top of the line and very expensive. I just realized it lasted 10 years, not bad at all.
The three issues I had last week with this PC were:
- My 2Tbs Photography hard drive had only 300Gbs available
- Windows 8 wasn't able to run 4K videos anymore
- When editing RAW large pictures from my Canon in Photoshop, the PC was simply shooting down.
With a mix feelings between my wallet and my geek side, I order new parts to build a new one. With pictures and videos getting better in quality from pretty much any device, therefore bigger in size, I realized I needed a beast.
So I ordered the following:
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| Building Gotham! |
- ASRock Motherboard (Z390M PRO4)
- WD BLACK SN750 500GB NVMe Internal Gaming SSD
- Intel Core i7-9700K Desktop Processor 8 Cores
- Corsair LPX 32GB DRAM 3000MHz C15 Memory Kit for DDR4 Systems
- MSI Gaming GeForce GTX 1650 128-Bit HDMI/DP 4GB GDRR5
- Cooler Master Hyper 212 Evo CPU Cooler
- EVGA 550 B3, 80+ Bronze 550W, Fully Modular
- Seagate IronWolf Pro 10TB NAS Internal Hard Drive HDD – 3.5 Inch SATA 6Gb/s 7200 RPM
Introducing The Beast!
With all those awesome parts at home, I had to call a good friend that loves putting PCs together, having a beer with me and talk about life. Scott came and we did magic! Well, mostly him, I was the helper and bartender! See the time-lapse video below of the building process!
PC is robust enough now, I have plenty of room for data and my desk now looks sexy!
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