-My editing super computer, what's inside_!

Benn TK
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-My editing super computer, what's inside_!
Having the wrong computer parts can really impact your editing experience.
So today we're going to be taking a look at my new supercomputer
and the hardware inside that makes my editing experience so much faster.
How's it going everybody welcome back to another video my name is Ben TK and today's an exciting
video actually because for the first time I'm talking about computers. I've been getting so
many requests from you guys about my computer specs and what's inside my computer that allows
me to edit the videos that I make. So today we're going to be going through the different computer
parts that makes a super editing computer and helps you have a really nice fluid editing
experience. This information will also help you if you're looking to build a computer
or buy a laptop because all this information is compatible. And then after I've spoken about the
computer parts and all that I'm going to be talking about monitors which I've got these
beautiful monitors here from MSI and I'm going to talk about what makes them good for editing
and why you need to make sure you've got a decent monitor especially when you're color grading.
Now I'm going to be using this computer behind me as an example of a super editing computer
and the parts that are inside it and this is the MSI Creator P100X and it is an absolute beast.
And it is a pretty goddamn sexy looking computer too so if you guys are looking to just straight
up buy a computer and not build one this might be a great option for you. It's faster than my
original computer which I'm super surprised about. But anyway let's get into those specs
and what makes up a super computer. So first of all is the CPU or processor. It basically
processes every command you make on your computer. Without it nothing would work at all. When
choosing a processor it's important to look at two main things and that's its core count
and its clock speed. Processors are made up of cores and the more cores it has the more tasks
it can process at one time. If a processor has eight cores it can process eight tasks. Now in
modern desktops these days in 2020 you can have anywhere up to eight to ten cores and that's
pretty damn good. You can even get more if you're willing to pay a bit more. You may not necessarily
need it. Now the second thing when looking at a processor or CPU is the clock speed. This is how
fast each core can process that information which is super important because if it processes it
really slow it doesn't matter how much cores it has it's not going to get the job done fast
enough. Now the Creator P100X has an Intel i9 10 core processor and its base clock speed is 3.7
gigahertz which is pretty good and from experience in Premiere Pro it has been very very fast. The
second biggest thing you want to look at when making or buying a new computer or laptop is the
graphics card. So what's a graphics card? Graphics cards basically do all the imagery work that you
see on your screen. When you're playing your 4k image back in Premiere Pro your graphics card is
doing a lot of the work to process the information needed to play that 4k file back smoothly. When
looking at graphics cards they also have cores. Graphics cards also have processors and they have
RAM. We'll get to RAM later but the main thing you want to look at when choosing a graphics card
is how many cores it has. They usually have thousands of cores. Now the reason why graphics
cards have so many more cores is because they process a lot more simpler information than what
the CPU does. The CPU processes very complex tasks. Tasks that you make and tasks that are happening
in the background while the programs are running. Things that you don't even see happening. Graphics
cards process mainly color information and 3D information in order to display the image correctly
on your screen. When playing games it needs to work out algorithms in order to display the 3D
environments correctly. So it basically processes all image data and these are very simple tasks.
That's why it can have very simple cores and a lot of cores. So the more cores the better. You also
have to look at the clock speed as well on the graphics cards and the better clock speed the
faster your graphics are going to load on your computer. The faster your 4k is going to play.
So the graphics card also helps a lot when you're rendering your videos alongside the CPU which does
a lot of work at the same time. So it gets a little bit complicated. The graphics card is called the
GPU. The processor is called the CPU and when you're just watching your videos back in Premiere
Pro in your timeline your graphics card does bulk of the work when playing back those videos. Your
CPU also does a bit of the work too. So they both work together hand in hand. Good graphics card
with a good CPU is going to make for an awesome editing experience. The graphics card inside the
P100X is the Nvidia GeForce RTX 2080 Super. It is an awesome graphics card with over 3072 CUDA cores
which is a lot. That's pretty good for a desktop setup and it's been rendering my projects pretty
good. So whether you're into gaming or content creation this is a perfect graphics card to have
for both sides. And if you're even into 3D modeling it will drastically help speed up your render time.
Now the last component I'm going to talk about inside an awesome editing computer is the RAM
and this is also an incredibly important component. Basically what is RAM? RAM stands for Random Access
Memory and what it does is it takes, so you've got your programs installed on your hard drive right?
That's where all your program information is. That's where Premiere Pro is. Basically if your
processor which is your CPU, if it had to get information from that program from the hard drive
and process it, it would take such a long time to get to the CPU because the hard drive isn't fast
at sending information. It's pretty slow. So that's why you have RAM. RAM basically acts as a
memory holding system so the CPU transfers that program data from your hard drive to your RAM
and it stores it in there as long as you've got that program open and it uses that information
for quick access to keep the program running smoothly and fast and it stays in the RAM while
you're using that program. If it had to get it from the hard drive constantly the program wouldn't
really work or it would be super slow and it would just be a pain in the butt. So the more RAM you
have the more information from every program you have open it can hold and access really quickly.
Now when you're exporting your projects in Premiere Pro and rendering it also uses a ton of RAM.
Now most people probably have around 16 gigabytes of RAM standard in their desktop setups. That's
pretty good. 16 is the lowest I would go. 32 gigabytes of RAM is probably the sweet spot.
It's a perfect amount but this beast behind me has 64 gigabytes of RAM and I have noticed the
more RAM you have the more your computer will utilize and it will actually help the other
components of your computer doing a little less work if you've got more RAM. So basically the more
RAM you have the better it's going to run and RAM is super cheap to buy as well so it doesn't hurt
to just pay I think it's like $80 for some cards to put in your computer. If your motherboard doesn't
support 64 gigabytes of RAM 32 is fine so you can't go wrong with 32. Now the processor and
graphics card both help each other in a lot of situations while you're editing. For example when
you're rendering a project the processor works very hard to process all the information in order
to render and the graphics card also helps with the image data needed to render that project.
So what I'm going to do now is I'm going to turn off the graphics card in this computer
and show you how fast it can render a project only using the CPU. So the video on the top left
is showing the full specs but it only has 16 gigabytes of RAM instead of 64. The video on
the top right is rendering with full specs the best of the computer's abilities and the one at
the bottom is with the CPU doing most of the work not the graphics card. And as you can see by the
one on the top right it makes a huge difference having the graphics card and 64 gigabytes of RAM
working on the render. All right guys now we're going to be talking about what makes a good
monitor for video editing, color grading, content creation, all that stuff. So the monitors I have
right next to me are the MSI PS321QR. So when choosing a really nice monitor for content
creation and editing you want to make sure that it has a good brightness. I believe these can go up
to 400 nits. Nits is the brightness measurement. Some monitors can go up to 1000 which is insane
because I don't know that would be very bright. I don't think I could see. You also want to make
sure the monitors are capable of displaying HDR which is high dynamic range which a lot of the
new ones can do these days. And probably the most important thing you want to make sure when buying
a monitor is that it's factory color calibrated. So when it comes to you in your house and you set
it up you don't have to do anything and it's all ready to go. The colors are correct and you don't
have to buy one of those spider things to put over the screen and color calibrate and do all that
stuff because that's a pain in the butt. So if you're a content creator like me and you're creating
content for the internet you want to make sure that your monitor has a very accurate sRGB color
gamut. Getting confusing aren't we? So sRGB is basically a color range that is the most common
type of color range that pretty much all monitors and older monitors and modern monitors are capable
of seeing at an even level. It's so everybody can see the same kind of color range so scientists or
color people or whatever you call them have come up with this range to display on pretty much a
standard amongst all monitors. So when you're editing for the internet the internet displays
at an sRGB gamut. So when you're working on your monitor you should be working in sRGB
and these display a very accurate sRGB color gamut. So whatever I edit on here it'll look
accurate to whatever I post on the internet or what people see on their TVs and that's what you
want. Now most high-end monitors usually market an Adobe RGB color gamut accuracy like 99%
Adobe RGB 100% Adobe RGB and this can bring the price up but this is really only for like
photographers. If a photographer is editing a photo to be displayed on a billboard or in a
magazine they need Adobe RGB which is a very wide color range but as videographers we don't need
that if we're just posting to the internet. So only look at sRGB if you are a content creator
posting things on the internet. Otherwise if you're a cinematographer and you're looking to make
short films or if you're looking to make movies displayed on projectors you need to work in a
color gamut space of DCI-P3 I believe it is and so you want to look at a monitor that can display
P3 style footage. And these awesome monitors actually come with these light protection
magnetic shields let's just call them that because that sounds pretty cool they're shields.
Yeah so they just they stop the light from coming from the windows and reflecting on your screen
with the side panels here which is really cool. Another thing that I love about these screens is
the fact they have a matte finish over the top so when you've got light coming in there's no
reflections. So whether you guys are building your own computer or you're looking to buy a laptop or
you're looking to buy an actual desktop setup PC I'm gonna put the link to this bad boy in the
description below because it actually is a dope computer and I would not recommend anything to
you guys if I thought otherwise. I'm very honest about the products that I use and I will only
review them if I think they are great and I will use them so you have my word. This is an awesome
computer the link is in the description below if you're looking to just straight up buy one because
sometimes that's easier than building one believe me you've done that. And that's it for this video
guys my name's Ben TK and I'll see you in the next video peace have a good one.
