Better for video editing: High IPC or moar coars

[Raduque]

I have recently started to get into recording gameplay footage and uploading it to YT, so I downloaded and have been playing around with Sony Movie Studio 13. My laptop's i7-4720HQ quad w/HT seems wholly unsuited to the task of running this suite - doing any sort of manipulation of the timeline causes CPU usage to peg to 100% across all cores and threads, and the MS13 window goes "non responsive" till it's finished.

I've decided to build a desktop dedicated solely to this software, so I am wondering what would be the better choice: Building another Xeon 2670 box

1. Xeon 2670 = $70
2. X79 board $250-300
3. 32gb DDR3 $120
4. Radeon R7 360 $100
5. Seasonic S12 550w $75
6. WD NAS 2x2tb $220
7. 850 evo 250 gb SSD $90
8. Windows 10 $100

for a grand total of about $1100...

or go with an overclocked AMD octo

1. AMD FX8300 $120
2. AM3+ 760g mobo $55
3. 32gb DDR3 $120
4. Radeon R7 360 $100
5. Seasonic S12 550w $75
6. WD NAS 2x2tb $220
7. 850 evo 250 gb SSD $90
8. Windows 10 $100

for just shy of $900?

Pro's/Con's either way? Big Pro on the AMD I see right away is twofold: Price, about $200 cheaper and they are new parts vs used parts.

Edit: Hmmm, just realized my thread title doesn't make sense - the Xeon has the same cores, but moar threds with HT.

 

[UsandThem]

Well, I'll be the first to admit I am limited in my understanding of video editing hardware, however from what I have seen others talking about, the Xeon would be much better for your use.

Although Anandtech Bench doesn't have the exact CPUs to choose from, they do have FX- 8320 and a Xeon 2687 available to compare:

http://www.anandtech.com/bench/product/698?vs=1274