Can you do video editing on a gaming PC?

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Since gaming PCs should have high-end specs, I guess. You just have to make sure your CPU can run the program and that your GPU (it should be high-end if you run console quality games) should be able to process the graphics.
 
Well there is difference between a gaming and graphics PC, but in the end a gaming PC should be able to run any program.
 
It maybe cheaper to build or buy a PC which is specially designed for video editing because Gaming PC from Alienware and other companies use parts like fancy LED Case Lights and a nice looking metal case with a nice design and paint job which makes the PC slightly expensive than buying a regular looking PC with a fast CPU, 8GB of RAM, 1TB hard drive, and fast graphics card.

I read online that video editing is more CPU and RAM intensive than video card intensive, so a cheaper video card like the Nvidia Geforce 750 or the onboard graphics on Intel CPUs like the Intel HD 5500 may be good enough for your video editing needs.
 
I'd agree on the CPU and RAM intensity, but honestly you'd have to look towards the actual programs you want to run more often then not. If you're above the recommended specs, you're good to go.
 
I built my gaming rig. And I have rendered tones of rendering over the five years, Rendering a video takes CPU and Ram and when rendering you can't do anything else but walk away and wait.

CPU: i7 3930K
memory: 16GB at 1600

Randers just as good with no problems, keep in mind that it uses all intensity of your CPU, I remember it went up to 100%

And all depending on your rendering settings from high to extra high and format. Yet again Youtube sets it to default once you uploaded it. And also it uses your Hard drive allot.
 
Depending on the CPU that you guys have.

What CPU you all got then?
 
Yeah, a powerful gaming system should handle video editing no problem. Possibly even better than a normal "off the shelf" PC since high end gaming systems often have very high speed RAM (DDR4), much more powerful CPUs (with more powerful cooling systems so it can operate at peak performance for longer without throttling back), larger quantities of RAM (some gaming systems have 16 or 32GB for base amounts), SSD drives for increased drive write speeds (so no bottlenecking at writing to storage), and a decently powerful GPU to help offset the CPU load.

Though, like I mentioned above, look into whatever program you use for video rendering because some of them (especially newer versions) offer a choice buried in the settings to offload some work to the GPU too to ease the load on the CPU and speed up render times. This won't like cut the time by anything drastic like 75% but it will still speed things up.
 
I usually build my own computers, but the last 2 I bought prebuilt (laptop and an all-in-one) and I bought them for gaming, and it was mentioned that most people use it for video editing. My answer would be yes.
 
Since a lot of gamers tend to also dabble in video making for YouTube, companies out there should make computers that are a mixture of gaming and work-intensive machines. People like PewDiePie usually record on a gaming PC and do the video editing on a Mac.
 
My youtube is empire24453 if you guys are interested in checking out my editing skills, there are three that I spent hours edited with allot of effects like slow motion and recap and funny moments.

Good old days :)

Last video was months ago, I'm no longer doing it because after 3 years of youtubeing I'm not getting anywhere with views and subscribers.
 
alakazam said:
I checked out your channel, but you don't do facecam videos...


Have you tried promoting your videos around?
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I have facecam videos and blogs. Around two or more for Euro truck then APB is one and World of tanks is another facecam. My blog didn't go so well, had to disable chat as it got worse.

I have promoted my videos and even partnership with a network, aren't gone so well
 
It really depends. Most gaming PC's I see come with an i5 for CPU - because games are more GPU heavy and so the CPU can be less powerful. If you have an i7 CPU and a GTX 970 GPU then you will have a great experience in terms of playing games and editing videos. If you have an i5 you will likely have a good time playing games, but the productivity of the PC might be lower for editing videos, ect.
 
There are sometimes hardware compatibility problems with Windows Gaming PC where hardware drivers can make video editing slower, or unreliable.

I recently read on a blog post that Nvidia released a hardware driver software which caused Windows to not startup, and show a blackscreen.

Following a storm of error reports, Nvidia has pulled GeForce drivers v364.47 from general release. Malfunctions range from your basic stuttering to black screens, blue screens and crashes that leave you stuck in infinite boot loops. Rather ominously, the odd member on the GeForce forums has been requesting warranty advice. I'll wager that the Nvidia office resembles one of the nastier planes of hell around now.
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PC Gamer

I think, if you want one of the best pre-built video editing computer, the Apple Mac Pro can be a good choice because it uses a Intel Xeon E5 with 12MB L3 cache and Turbo Boost up to 3.9GHz. The Intel Xeon Series of CPUs are used on very powerful web servers, supercomputers, and database servers, so it is fast enough for most video editing needs.

The Mac Pro also has two AMD FirePro D500 graphics processors with 3GB of GDDR5 VRAM each, so you also get 6GB of DDR5 RAM by having two video cards on the Mac Pro.

The Mac Pro can be upgraded to 64GB of 1866MHz DDR3 ECC memory if the 16GB of RAM is not enough.

The cooling system in the Mac Pro also seems pretty good at cooling itself without making a lot of noise.

But, the Mac Pro is very expensive, so building a Gaming PC is more affordable.
 
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