Potential gaming and easy video editing PC

[Ah forget it]

My beloved PC Specialist desktop from 6 years ago has finally bitten the dust and I need to get a new one ASAP! I still game, but not as much but I have a younger son who is rapidly growing up and is probably about to game a lot more than me I mainly use it now for some massive spreadsheet work and video editing using Filmora 9 for the school I work at producing videos. I don’t tend to upgrade my PC’s when I have bought them, just hammer them in to the ground as this PC is used by my wife to work from home two days a week, my son to play games on after school and me to work/game on when I get home.

1. - Firstly, I’m a damn hippy and I try and re-use / recycle where I can, can I simply send my old case back in to reuse with the spec I have posted below? It’s a FRACTAL DEFINE R4 BLACK PEARL QUIET MID-TOWER CASE I seem to think it’s a decent case or would there be a problem with this?
2. - Both the hard drives were replaced in my old PC at the start of the year ( 1 large SSD and a separate Hard Drive) and I have a copy of Windows 10 which I am happy to re-install, can I ask for a PC without any hard drives for me to install myself or is that not possible?
3. - I am so out of date looking at processors and GPU’s, With the spec I have gone for below, will that tie in with what I want to do? I’ve never bought AMD before and am slightly nervous but the post at the top of this forum says otherwise!

Any guidance or feedback would be hugely appreciated!

Case
Send In Your Own Case
Processor (CPU)
AMD Ryzen 5 3600 Six Core CPU (3.6GHz-4.2GHz/36MB CACHE/AM4)
Motherboard
ASUS® TUF GAMING B550-PLUS (DDR4, USB 3.2, 6Gb/s) - ARGB Ready!
Memory (RAM)
16GB Corsair VENGEANCE DDR4 2400MHz (2 x 8GB)
Graphics Card
6GB NVIDIA GEFORCE GTX 1660 SUPER - HDMI, DP - GeForce GTX VR Ready!
1st Storage Drive
1TB SEAGATE BARRACUDA SATA-III 3.5" HDD, 6GB/s, 7200RPM, 64MB CACHE
Power Supply
CORSAIR 450W CV SERIES™ CV-450 POWER SUPPLY
Power Cable
1 x 1 Metre UK Power Cable (Kettle Lead)
Processor Cooling
PCS FrostFlow 80 Series High Performance CPU Cooler (AMD)
Thermal Paste
ARCTIC MX-4 EXTREME THERMAL CONDUCTIVITY COMPOUND
Extra Case Fans
2x 120mm Black Case Fan (configured to extract from rear/roof)
Sound Card
ONBOARD 6 CHANNEL (5.1) HIGH DEF AUDIO (AS STANDARD)
Wireless/Wired Networking
WIRELESS 802.11N 300Mbps/2.4GHz PCI-E CARD
USB/Thunderbolt Options
MIN. 2 x USB 3.0 & 2 x USB 2.0 PORTS @ BACK PANEL + MIN. 2 FRONT PORTS
Operating System
NO OPERATING SYSTEM REQUIRED
Operating System Language
United Kingdom - English Language

 

[AndreasAndrews112]

- Both the hard drives were replaced in my old PC at the start of the year ( 1 large SSD and a separate Hard Drive) and I have a copy of Windows 10 which I am happy to re-install, can I ask for a PC without any hard drives for me to install myself or is that not possible?

For my last contribution of the night I went for the oldest unanswered post which caught my eye, and that was yours as you also do video editing as do I, so I have some common ground.

I prefer installing my own Windows 10 Pro (which I will likely transfer the license from an old system I'm not using if possible) however one thing my gut is telling me is that if you remove all the hard drives from the configurator you might will see this error:

"Unfortunately you cannot place an order without a hard disk drive or SSD drive. Please select at least one hard disk drive, M.2 SSD drive or PCI-E SSD drive before proceeding."

I think one of the many reasons why you'll need a hard drive in there during the build is because they test each system after it's built by putting a trial version of Windows (or such like) or some kind of OS on there so the system can be tested and proven to be working before it's shipped.

I really think your system will breeze through video editing to be honest, but as a dislaimer I'm not expert and not very experienced. I just spend way too long researching things, asking questions and like helping others

 

[Martinr36]

yes you need to order wth a hard drive so if you are going to put your drives from the existing machine in I'd take the barracuda out of your spec and replace it with a 512GB PCS m.2 to put your OS and programs on