Happily, it all went to plan and was a lot of fun, so I hope this guide can help you, whether you are looking to do the build yourself or just trying to work out your specification which someone else will build for you.
I’d never built a computer before and nor was I an expert by any means, so I spent quite a few months researching and watching endless YouTube videos and reading endless articles before taking the plunge. And because I work remotely, exporting videos to send to clients was a daily occurrence and something that took a lot longer than I wanted. Even with trashing preferences and a complete reinstall of Windows and Premiere, I was seeing stability issues too, especially on larger projects. I badly needed a new machine – after only three and a half years (scary I know), it was starting to slow me down and I knew that technology had advanced quite a bit even in that short time. I’ve never been a gamer, at least not since the Atari and ZX Spectrum days of the 1980s, so I’d never watched any of the thousands of YouTube videos on the subject. I’ve always admired those who built their own workstation.
Building my own editing PC was always something I thought was just a little but outside of my abilities, but I was wrong.