Help with PC/Mac for Photoshop to edit stills and videos

I'm looking for a machine to speed up my PSCC editing, especially video editing with PSCC.  My current machine is a 4 yr old  PC by Velocity Micro with i7-920 2.6GHz, 12 G mem, 256G SSD, and 10T of storage with about 1/2 inside the box and the rest outside via USB2.  The speed of current machine is tolerable for stills, but way too slow (for my patience) to render videos.

I'm debating between PC and MBP.  I have a mid-2011MBA, which is OK for travel, but not for processing.

Here are the key components that Velocity Micro suggested.  I'd welcome comments on any of the components that seem overkill for still and video editing with PS.  I don't do games.

Power Supply 750 Watt EVGA® SuperNOVA Power Supply, 80Plus Bronze Certified, > 80% efficiency

Motherboard Gigabyte™ GA-X99-UD4 - Intel® X99 Chipset, ATX Motherboard, Ultra Durable Series

Processor Intel® Core™ i7-5820K Processor, 6-core @ 3.3GHz (3.6GHz Turbo) with HT, 15MB L3 Cache, 140 watts

DDR4 Memory 32GB Crucial® DDR4-2133MHz (4 x 8GB), CAS 15 latency, low voltage -

Video Card 2GB EVGA® NVIDIA® GeForce GTX760 GDDR5 video card

500GB Crucial® MX100 Solid State Drive


And, I'd welcome comments on how the above PC configuration would perform compared to a loaded MBP.  The price of the two machines would cost about the same.

Nice machine but you will get more of a performance boost by trading cores for clock speed. SOmething like an i7-4790K and it burns a whole lot less power too. The rest looks great.

Thanks, EJ.
the 4790 looks to be 0.7G faster and is currently $50 cheaper on Newegg. Excellent suggestion.

How would you predict the suggested components would compare performance wise to a loaded MBP? I'm conflicted about going with a Mac. I'm convinced the OS is much better than Windows, but I'm a lot more comfortable in the PC world.

EJ,

Also, is the DDR4-2133MHz worth the extra money over 1600 or 1866Hz.

This system will smoke any MBP. Faster memory is always better but I think you are into diminishing returns. I would go with the 1866.

In my opinion, while the above machine will be a nice improvement, your current machine is very limiting with due to I/O speed, not so much the processor and memory. Moving to USB3 disks for your external drives will be a major improvement. Look to increase the I/O speed to/from the motherboard. For example, be sure the motherboard has 6 GB/s SATA interface and if you are putting any large disk drives in the system, be sure they are 6 GB/s sata drives.

Roger

Yeah I missed that part - didn't look at your old configuration. USB2 is a complete waste in that system but I'm guessing those disks are USB3 and you just don't have USB3 on your old system.  If so, then you'll be fine.  If not you will want to replace the externals with USB3.  Or take the disks out of the external housings and put them in USB3 housings.  Unless you have the 10TB of storage spread among a whole lot of small disks, the disks in the external drives are already SATA III.

I think 4 of the 5 external housings support USB3.  They are 1 and 2T drives.  I plan on consolidating those into a couple of 4T drives.  The internal drives are also 1 & 2Ts.  The BIOS in the old system needs to be updated to support >2T, if I'm going to keep it.  Also, I need to find a card that will provide USB3 support.  I've tried two and neither worked - one faulty out of the box and the other wouldn't let the machine boot.  Those facts tell me it is time to consider a new box.  The old system has a 256G SSD C-drive, which I plan to use in a new PC as a working disk for photos and videos.  I'm currently storing new photos and their backup (Breeze Downloader) on two of the internal drives.

Velocity Micro is now suggesting the 4790 chip and 32g of 1600 memory.  I'm thinking, thanks to EJ, that the 1866Hz memory would be a better choice than the 1600.  Maybe not quite as fast as the 2133, but cheaper.  How performance benefit should I expect going from 1600 to 1866 to 2133Hz memory?

dbolt wrote:  How performance benefit should I expect going from 1600 to 1866 to 2133Hz memory?

Not much at all.