Building a Video Editing Beast with an Unconventional GPU Choice

Hello there and welcome to my video. In today's video, I'll be building my new video editing workstation that uses the Intel Arc A750 I purchased for the sake of testing. I didn't expect the A750 to be as great at video editing as it is, but it was amazing at it. So amazing, in fact, that it sparked me to spend another ~$950 on parts to build myself a new editing workstation!

Non-affiliate links to the parts that I used in this video:

Music, in order:
Beyond - Patrick Patrikios
Papov - Yung Logos
Soul Searching - Causmic
Sunday Rain - Cheel
Sunny Days - Anno Domini Beats

[CHWTT]

I am officially broke.
Also, this system exported this 13 minute and 37 second video in 4K at 30FPS encoded with AV1 in a mere 3 minutes flat. That's genuinely insane.
Oh and I enabled XMP, don't worry about leaving a comment regarding that!

[Superfly]

What a terrific video, I really enjoyed. I know all about the hardware and assembling a PC, but I must say you explained your way through this perfectly. Kudos. You also made almost the same hardware choices as me. I got a 12700K a 1 year ago, and are now looking to get the Intel ARC A750 LE.

[OG_Gamers_Live]

Because your 12900k has onboard graphics and the Arc also supports intels Deep Link Technology Davincii Resolve Studio makes use of that to speed up render times dramatically.

[kuthub]

I love your way of explanation and build.

[dezhocob]

This card is a beast for video editors!

[packerfan]

That is a great deal on the Mobo/CPU/RAM

[felicityc]

Been loving your style and tempo last few vids since i subbed a bit ago :3 keep it up
maybe think of a snappy channel name!!

[tezzatel]

I've just moved back to Windows after using a Mac Mini M1. The M1 runs Resolve extremely well and I never had any issues with regards to video editing performance! Now I have AMD Ryzen 7 5700G, ASUS TUF Gaming B550M-PLUS and 32 ram. Resolve will not run well at all and is totally useless. So can I ask do you think me adding a Arc 750 will make editing possible again? Loving the channel by the way.

[mrbabyhugh]

7:04 though in theory it should be fine to hold the cooler to carry the board, i dont like it. it's still tension on the board itself.

[ChessMate_]

Hello mate. How can I find such great deals on PC parts? It would really help!

[zeroturn]

Always wanted to do a blue build, but just can’t get with E-Cores.

[starbuck]

Very nice build! I'm waiting on the parts to build a similar system, but with the DDR 4 version of that same motherboard because I've got DD4 falling out of my ears, lol!

Using the same case, but I'm not going to add fans....

I'm building it simply because I want an all Intel system! I've got an Intel with AMD system, a Intel with Nvidia System, and all AMD system, and AMD with Nvida system... So why not? :)

Even going to use an Intel 670p NVME drive just for slaps and tickles!

So specs are going to be:

Intel 12900k
MSI Pro 690-A Wi Fi DDR 4
Intel ARC A750
Intel 670P 2 TB NVME
64 GB of G. Skill DDR 4 3600 (have on hand)
NZXT H5 Flow
EVGA G5 1000 PSU (have on hand)
Thermalright Silver Soul 135 Air Cooler

Just a fun(and totally gratuitous) build!

[SlimFoti-kwyp]

i just ordered an intel ARC A770, I hope I will be able to replicate your results, I have an I5 13600K, 14 cores, 5.1.

[tnabr]

Damn, i didnt know the arc cards were that good at that stuff. it really makes me consider putting one in my system as a secondary card for encoding/editing. any idea if resolve would freak out if i tried to use the combined power of an arc card + a 4070ti? ive played a bit with using multiple nvidia gpu's for resolve, but not multiple brands. Great video as well!

[borhansuny]

it's been a year after you published the video, how is your experence with the arc gpu? is it that good for editing!!

[PiDsPagePrototypes]

Seeing the Resolve performance, for that and for vMix/OBS, would you say the ARC 750 is good value? Say, compared to a mid range Quadro? I'm looking for great decode/encode performance for multiple IP based cameras.

[u_fpv]

hey this is the exact setup I'm about to build but I also want to do light gaming with it (1080p 144hz on cpu intensive game). Have you tried a few games on it?

[lettmons]

Why do modern CPUs have strange thread amount?

[KoiAquaponics]

I looked on Pugetsystems benchmark results, the A770 seems mediocre.
How many frames are you able to render in Resolve Studio at 4k60 10bit H265?
My current 1080ti and 8700k, I can do between 90-110fps.
My laptop 13900HX and 4070 can do 90-120fps.
All using NVENC.

[adinnugroho]

Kinda unusual, core i9 pair with ARC A750. But at least, it still can run well