Comments by "John h Palmer" (@johnhpalmer6098) on "This is a real issue for PC enthusiasts..." video.

  1. All very good Jay and well needed. I noticed something when "shopping" for new parts for a PC build as I NEED to go on from a now 10 YO Dell SFF optiplex with a Core 15 processor and a wheezy and about as old graphics card with a mere 1G on it (Nvidia GT 610. It was what I had from a previous PC that I had to replace on short notice and it was a decade old and carried the graphics card over as one, it fits the SFF, just). Anyway, I'm not gaming but editing, and was running Premiere Pro CS4 (yes) and then HitFilm but it's future is now uncertain, so now have jumped to (at the moment) Davinci Resolve 12.5.1 as it'll work (yes) on this current box, as long as I do the KISS method and no higher than 1080P. That said, am if approved will be going with the Intel Core i7, with iGPU/fan, The Nvidia RTX 3060 w/ 12GB, DDR5 memory (32GB), the Z790 based DDR5 motherboard from MSI at minimum with Win 11 and will then jump to DR 18. I was going to go with Gigabyte but after hearing about their RMA issues, decided to go with MSI, and both had identical specs for their boards, including 2.5GBe ethernet, WiFi 6e, BT 5.3, PCIe 5.0 lane for the graphics card, 4 for the NVME drives, you get the picture. Seems that no matter who builds the boards, it's a tight race, and with identical, or near specs, so it then becomes what board do you like the looks of instead, and the RMA issues, if any. Total build is going to run somewhere between 1200-1500 bucks, with case and OS. This way, I future proof and not have to do a total upgrade of most of it sooner, rather than later. I'm also thinking eventually outputting to 2K, if not 4K if it comes to that. Some of my decisions came from inquiring with Blackmagic/Davinci Resolve folks, Richard Lackey and Simon Says for the most part on what Davinci needs and then build it with that in mind and it'll be more than enough for the rest of the software I use. I just weeded out the cruft and decided on what Davinci needs to run smoothly and costs, finding out that DDR5 does not seem to cost all that much more than DDR4 now for the came memory capacity, and I can get a Z790 based board for 239 or so (MSI), the processor is I think $350 or there abouts, 32GB of RAM (2x16) runs just over $100, and Amazon, Newegg and B&H are very close, within a few bucks of each other, barring any coupons. I'd go with Microcenter, but from what I saw, the choices are not as vast online and there is not a store in Washington State, sadly, and of course, Fry's is long gone, used to have a store here and I've bought stuff from them in the past. Looks like there is ONE chip, but with various tweaks, like overclocked or not, GPU or not, cooler in the box, or not, but the very same processor per each core model for Intel at least. Anyway, it'll be interesting to see how this all plays as far as my new build goes.
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