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This is great news. I just started planning to build a video editing machine over the next few months. Are prices likely to come down more?

The AMD Ryzen 9 3900X 12-core was what I was looking at. This new 3990X looks amazing, but its probably overkill for what I need.

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I have a 3700X that I use primarily for music production and it runs flawlessly. Prices, at least on NewEgg India, haven't budget even a cent in 4 months though.

I would recommend getting a different cooler though. The stock cooler, while adequate, runs noisy and doesn't feel all that sturdy.

Thanks, I didn't even know newegg came to India !

Depending on what you use for video editing the CPU really isn't much of a factor.

Video encoding is still very CPU intensive, especially newer codecs like HEVC VP9 and AV1

True, but that's only for delivery. A good editor like Resolve runs mostly on the GPU, even when rendering for delivery -- whether the encoder also uses the GPU is a separate matter. For what it's worth, h.264 GPU encoders are good enough nowadays that there isn't much point using x264 at a fraction of the performance.

In my mind this makes it preferable to opt for a stronger GPU, if you have to decide between a stronger CPU or a stronger GPU (e.g. you have 300 $ left in your budget and want to decide where to put them).

I have the AMD Ryzen 9 3900x (paid $499 at launch). Last I checked it is now $469, so prices will likely inch down as time goes on. I would probably wait until the next AMD launch sometime this year if you want to get a sweet deal on a great chip.

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