CPU/Cooler for video editing?

[greatgreenman]

I bought a R5 3600 and Coolermaster Hyper 212 led earlier this year solely for playing CPU intensive AAA games on 1440p and never thought I’ll ever do anything like video editing.

Sadly, I find myself doing video rendering/encoding more often now due to working from home and while both the CPU and cooler can do the job, it’s quite time consuming and I usually leave the job to run overnight. Temps also still max out at 85deg with the 212.

Anyone able to recommend a cpu and cooler for the above purpose? Probably not liquid cooling since I’m using a P400s and I don’t think a radiator fits well inside.

 

[watzup_ken]

I feel the temp while high, but is not critical. I suggest you can try slapping another fan in a push pull configuration and see if it helps. I recall the cooler comes with another fan mount, which you can mount on the other side of the heatsink.

 

[Reavl]

what kind of video are you rendering or encoding?
it take so long over night?
4k? how long is the footage

 

[Koenig168]

what kind of video are you rendering or encoding?
it take so long over night?
4k? how long is the footage

depend on the settings, I take 4 or 5 hours to encode a movie with the Rzyen 3700X

@ OP - a higher core-count Ryzen, which model depend on budget. 85C on load is fine. The P400S has bad airflow so you can easily lower temps by removing the tempered glass side-panel when encoding. (I have the same casing and can hit close to 100C when using Handbrake.)

 

[Reavl]

encoding utilize on more core count but i think now rendering can utilize on gpu. just wondering

 

[Rashkae]

How long is your footage? I regularly render 30-45 minute 3440x1440 videos and it takes less than 10 minutes

 

[ItsmeagainhK]

I bought a R5 3600 and Coolermaster Hyper 212 led earlier this year solely for playing CPU intensive AAA games on 1440p and never thought I’ll ever do anything like video editing.

Sadly, I find myself doing video rendering/encoding more often now due to working from home and while both the CPU and cooler can do the job, it’s quite time consuming and I usually leave the job to run overnight. Temps also still max out at 85deg with the 212.

Anyone able to recommend a cpu and cooler for the above purpose? Probably not liquid cooling since I’m using a P400s and I don’t think a radiator fits well inside.

Stock thermal paste ? If so, just spend $15 + and get thermal grizzly kyronaut and observe the temps. Could probably drop a couple of degree. If still not to your liking, invest in a good noctua cooler.

 

[peterchan75]

@greatgreenman,

If you use Adobe Premiere or DaVinci Resolves, then consider getting a graphics card for playback and encode. Using Nvidia GTX 1650 Super and an old Core i5 with 8GB RAM, a 7 minutes timeline consisting of several MTS format clips with transition encode to MPEG2 takes about 2 minutes. The graphics card can do real time playback from the timeline.

 

[matrix05]

Open up and use a stand fan to direct blow, CPU will not exceed 50c.

 

[Mythmaker]

I run handbrake and I barely broke 70 degrees with a 3900 and Noctua u12s. With 2 GT and shin etsu x23-7783D paste. The 2nd pass was about 12 hours.

 

[Swiftbladez]

I think if you're doing video editing it is more dependent on the GPU no?

Shouldn't you be upgrading your GPU or adding more GPUs instead of being bothered about the heat and CPU?

 

[Vegitto]

@greatgreenman,

If you use Adobe Premiere or DaVinci Resolves, then consider getting a graphics card for playback and encode. Using Nvidia GTX 1650 Super and an old Core i5 with 8GB RAM, a 7 minutes timeline consisting of several MTS format clips with transition encode to MPEG2 takes about 2 minutes. The graphics card can do real time playback from the timeline.

My gtx1070ti went up to 87deg when rendering with resolve

ryzen 5 3600 temps are ard 70-73 though...

 

[Koenig168]

encoding utilize on more core count but i think now rendering can utilize on gpu. just wondering

I can encode 3 to 4 times faster using my GTX 1070Ti compared to using the Ryzen 3700X on the same settings. However, there is a difference in video quality (though probably not noticeable if you are not fussy).

 

[Koenig168]

depend on the settings, I take 4 or 5 hours to encode a movie with the Rzyen 3700X

@ OP - a higher core-count Ryzen, which model depend on budget. 85C on load is fine. The P400S has bad airflow so you can easily lower temps by removing the tempered glass side-panel when encoding. (I have the same casing and can hit close to 100C when using Handbrake.)

load temp for Prime95 and Handbrake now at around 80C with voltage at 1.35V and multi-core clock at 4 to 4.1 GHz. Hmmmm .... have to figure out what I did to get temps down so much.

 

[shawntyq]

suggest you undervolt to reduce the temperature. for long term also better because heat reduce lifespan of the components.