CPU+MB+RAM for Photo/Video Editing - 20k

[nac]

My friend's 3rd gen i7 set up gone kaput. There were so many repairs in the last the couple of years, he is not up for repairs again this time. But he has very limited budget right now. He doesn't have any working dGPU either. He doesn't have any more budget for after market cooler or dGPU right now. He will add them later but not in the near future. I suggested to go for used GT210/710 or something for the time being, he doesn't want to go for used product. So iGPU is must.

4600G fits the budget, but he is asking if he can fit 5600G or i5 12400 by going for cheaper motherboard. He is leaning more towards i5 set up.

Can he go with H610 board? I read Intel CPUs draws high power thus increasing temperature way too much. I don't think he will want to tinker with the board and try undervolting. So how is H610 with i5 12400 and stock cooler for video editing?

With 5600G, I am bit doubtful with these two boards B450M Pro VDH or B450M DS3H. This will bring the bottom number under 20k. Can B450 handle extended stress of video editing?

Does he have any other good options other than these? Any suggestions would be appreciated.

~20.5k
Ryzen 4600G
B550M Pro VDH
Corsair Vengeance 8GB 3600Mhz DDR4

~23k
Ryzen 5600G
B550M Pro VDH
Corsair Vengeance 8GB 3600Mhz DDR4

~28k
i5 12400
Asus Prime B760M A
Teamgroup Vulcan 8GB 5200Mhz DDR5

 

[Gollum]

Intel Stock cooler is very bad. I have 12400F and if you enable turbo boost, the cpu will over heat and reach temperatures of 100°c. I had to buy aftermarket cooler for this CPU.

Ryzen 5600 system is better as it will give the same number of cores with better iGPU and better heat sink.

 

[schumacher]

@Gollum what cooler did you get? Isn't turbo boost enabled by default in bios?

 

[Gollum]

@Gollum what cooler did you get? Isn't turbo boost enabled by default in bios?

I bought AK620 which is an overkill but now I have no worries. You can get any 2 or 4 heatpipe cooler now. At my time coolers for LGA1700 were not easily available. I have tested 4 heatpipe cooler and 120mm aio on 12gen i7 and both remained cool under normal conditions.
Yes, is enabled by default and will cook your cpu.
I almost didn't realise until I touched the top of my case and it was hot enough to cook an omelette.
If you disable turbo boost. The temperature will remain at 60°c at idle. Which is still no where choose to cool.

 

[nac]

Yes, is enabled by default and will cook your cpu.
I almost didn't realise until I touched the top of my case and it was hot enough to cook an omelette.
If you disable turbo boost. The temperature will remain at 60°c at idle. Which is still no where choose to cool.

By turbo boost, you mean set things to Intel power limit, right? AG400 costs about 2k, which should be good enough to handle 12400's temp. But it's adding to an already overshot budget. I see reviews for AK400, but not AG400. Going by specs, AK400 has better quality fans, is it worth the price premium? Other than that, I don't find any difference, I hope AG400 perform as good as AK400 with regards to cooling i5 12400/5600G

Looks like 5600G should be best he could squeeze. He should've gotten it by now, but he's still trying to get the extra dough and seriously considering to go for cheaper board like H610 for i5 or B450 for 5600G. There are paylater/EMI options, if he can get it there would be no compromise on any parts.

 

[Gollum]

5500g paired with b550 motherboard will also do the job.
Fans are all the same except for the injection of lights in them.

 

[TheSloth]

5600G is almost like 3600 with iGPU, so a B450 board will pair nicely with it.

 

[Gollum]

5600G is almost like 3600 with iGPU, so a B450 board will pair nicely with it.

B450 is limited to pcie3

 

[nac]

5600G is almost like 3600 with iGPU, so a B450 board will pair nicely with it.

He was looking at B450M PRO VDH Max as it will put the bottom number @ 20k, as suggested to stick to B550 and try to get one of the component through pay later option from Primeabgb.

 

[Gollum]

My bad, I didn't take that part into account.
For future upgrade I would definitely suggest adding in an rtx305/60 8/12gb as final video rendering is now completely done on the GPU. Fast GPU equals fast rendering.

 

[nac]

He has finalized to go with Ryzen 5600G. I remember reading/watching PCIE3 vs 4 back when PCIE4 was launched, the performance difference won't be that huge. B450 or B550, 5600G will only support PCIE 3.

 

[nac]

He bought all the things on EMI for about 26k

Ryzen 5 5600G
MSI B550M PRO VDH
Corsair Vengeance 3600Mhz DDR4 16GB

 

[nac]

Didn't know they removed support for 3000 series APUs in B550, or at least that's the case with this board, they have mentioned that in the box itself. Don't know if it's just 3000 series APU or that includes all APUs before 3000 series. This was manufactured in Feb 2024, and had Jan 2024 BIOS.

Assembled and installed Win 11. Thought I would need to set things like TPM, secure boot etc for Win 11 in BIOS before installing, but it was already set that way. Don't know if allocating 4GB memory for iGPU would help, but I set 4GB anyway, Resize bar is enabled by default. PBO enabled by default, set to AUTO.

Adding dPGU isn't gonna happen anytime soon as he will be busy paying EMIs for the next few months. Once that's done, he will likely go for a monitor before even thinking of GPU.
Intel Arc A750 or RX6600 for 20k would be good I guess, don't know much about Intel Arc (just checked toms hardware score), and RX6600 isn't widely available, may be 7000 series is already over a year old and they may have stopped production of 6000 series.
Next up is RTX3060 or RX7600 for about 27k, but I doubt if he would be okay to spend that much. In fact, he may even find 20k high for GPU. Will discuss that if and when he's buying GPU.