PC36 Creator Studio Four | Intel Ultra 7 270K Plus + RTX 5090 32GB + 64GB DDR5 + Thunderbolt 4 | Creator PC | PC36

🎨 PC36 Creator Studio Four

The Creator machine for when video memory is the wall you keep hitting

Creator Studio Four exists for one reason: 32GB of video memory. Everything else in this build is shared with Creator Studio Three, part for part. What changes is the ceiling. If your work has started failing rather than slowing down, out-of-memory errors on a heavy comp, a 3D scene that will not fit in the card, an AI model that refuses to load, an 8K timeline that stops playing back the moment you stack another node, this is the machine that moves that ceiling.

Day to day it feels calm. The Intel Core Ultra 7 270K Plus handles the timeline, the media engine takes the decode work, and the RTX 5090 sits underneath it all with enough memory that you stop thinking about memory. Long renders run on a big dual tower air cooler and four case fans rather than a pump, because a fan that gets noisy is an inconvenience and a pump that fails is a dead machine. There is no lighting anywhere in the build. It is a tool, and it looks like one.

Here is the honest part. If you are not hitting a video memory wall, Studio Three is the machine to buy, and we would rather tell you that now than take the larger order. The 5090 does not make an export twice as fast on a project that already fits. It makes the impossible project possible. That is a real and specific benefit, and it is worth a lot to the people who need it, and nothing at all to the people who do not. If you are unsure which side of that line you sit on, talk to us on live chat before you order and we will tell you straight.

📃 Specifications

• 🧠 CPU: Intel Core Ultra 7 270K Plus (LGA1851, Arrow Lake Refresh, QuickSync)
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  • Chosen for timeline responsiveness rather than raw core count. Scrubbing, trimming and effect previews lean on fast single-thread performance far more than editors expect.
  • QuickSync handles H.264 and H.265 decode and encode in fixed-function hardware, so proxy generation and delivery exports run without tying up the graphics card.
  • Plenty of headroom for the background work that runs alongside an edit: media indexing, cache building, cloud sync, a browser full of reference tabs.
  • Arrow Lake Refresh runs cooler and draws less under sustained load than the previous generation, which is why an air cooler is enough here.
• ❄️ CPU Cooler: Thermalright Peerless Assassin 120, black dual tower air cooler (no RGB)
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  • Two towers and six heatpipes, which is more cooler than this processor strictly needs. That surplus is the point: the fans sit low in their curve during a two hour render instead of ramping.
  • Air over liquid on a creator machine is a deliberate call. There is no pump to fail, no coolant to degrade, and nothing that turns a working week into a warranty claim.
  • Black fans and a black finish. No lighting, no glow, nothing to distract in a colour-critical room.
  • If you specifically want a liquid cooler instead, ask on live chat before ordering and we will talk it through properly.
• 🔲 Motherboard: ASRock Z890 LiveMixer WiFi (ATX)
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  • Two rear Thunderbolt 4 / USB4 Type-C ports at 40Gb/s. This is the reason we use this board. Two ports means a dock and a fast external SSD at the same time, without a hub in between.
  • Four M.2 slots in total, one of them PCIe Gen5. Two are used by the drives fitted as standard, leaving two free for project or archive storage later.
  • PCIe 5.0 x16 for the graphics card, with power delivery specified well above what this processor draws so it stays stable through long sustained loads.
  • Full ATX, so the card, the cooler and the cabling all have room to breathe rather than being packed in.
• 📏 Memory: 64GB (2x32GB) DDR5-5200 CL40
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  • Capacity matters more than frequency for creative work. 64GB is what keeps a heavy After Effects comp, a Resolve timeline and a Photoshop file with fifty layers all open at once without the machine starting to page to disk.
  • Two sticks rather than four. A two stick configuration is easier on the memory controller, more stable at capacity, and leaves both remaining slots genuinely usable later.
  • XMP or EXPO is enabled and validated before the machine leaves us, so you get the rated speed rather than the fallback.
  • If your workflow genuinely needs more than 64GB, that is a live chat conversation rather than a listing option, because the right answer depends on which applications you run and how.
• 💾 Storage 1 (OS and applications): 500GB NVMe PCIe 4.0 SSD (TLC)
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  • Windows and your applications live here and nothing else. Keeping the system drive separate from project media is the single easiest thing you can do to keep a creative machine feeling fast in year three.
  • TLC flash rather than QLC, so sustained write performance holds up instead of collapsing once a cache fills.
  • 500GB is deliberate. It is enough for Windows, the Adobe suite, Resolve and a stack of plugins, and it discourages the habit of dumping projects onto C.
• 💾 Storage 2 (Projects): 2TB NVMe PCIe 4.0 SSD (TLC, DRAM-buffered)
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  • Fitted as standard, not an upsell. A dedicated project drive is how the machine is meant to be used.
  • DRAM-buffered is the specification that matters. The onboard cache keeps write speeds consistent when you are ingesting a card, writing cache and scratch files, and exporting all at once. DRAM-less drives slow down badly under exactly that pattern.
  • Also TLC flash, for the same reason as the system drive: real sustained throughput on long transfers rather than a good number in a short benchmark.
  • Two M.2 slots remain free, so adding a second project drive or an archive drive later is a straightforward job.
• 🎮 Graphics Card: NVIDIA RTX 5090 32GB
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  • 32GB of video memory is the entire argument for this build. It is not a general step up in speed, it is a step up in what will run at all.
  • Where it earns its place: 8K timelines with stacked effects, large 3D scenes and Unreal projects that will not fit in a smaller card, local AI models that need real weight in memory, and complex comps in Fusion or Nuke where a node tree exhausts the card long before it exhausts the processor.
  • Where it does not: a 4K timeline with a normal grade and a few effects. That work already fits comfortably in a smaller card, and you will not see the difference. We would rather say so.
  • CUDA and the NVENC media engines accelerate Resolve, Premiere Pro, After Effects, Blender and most of the AI tooling built into modern creative applications.
  • This card ships to you in its own separate parcel. See the transparency notes below for why.
• 🧰 Case: Corsair Frame 4000D, Black (ATX mid tower, no RGB)
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  • Plain black, no window theatrics and no lighting. It is designed to sit next to a monitor without competing with it.
  • High-airflow front panel, which is what keeps a card of this size fed with cool air during a long render.
  • Genuine room inside for extra drives and for future changes. This is a case you can work in five years from now, not one you fight with.
  • Filtered intakes on the front and floor, which is the difference between a machine that stays quiet and one that slowly chokes on dust.
• 🌬️ Case cooling: 4 x 120mm black non-RGB fans
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  • Set up as intake at the front and exhaust at the rear and top, tuned in the BIOS for steady airflow rather than reactive ramping.
  • A card and processor working together under a long render generate real heat. Four fans keep that moving without any one of them having to shout about it.
  • If quiet matters more to you than anything else, the Noctua Pure Silence Setup below is worth reading.
• ⚡ Power Supply: Montech Century II 1200W 80+ Gold, fully modular
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  • 1200W is specified for this card specifically. The 5090 draws real power and produces short transient spikes well above its rated draw, and a supply sized to the average rather than the spikes is how you get a machine that shuts down mid-render.
  • ATX 3.1 native 12V-2x6 connector, so the card is powered by a single properly rated cable rather than a fan of adapters.
  • 80+ Gold efficiency, which on a machine that renders for hours means less waste heat in the room as well as less on the meter.
  • Fully modular, so only the cables you actually need are installed. Better airflow, tidier build, easier to service.
• 🔌 Cabling: Stock cabling
• 🪟 Operating System: As chosen by you from the listing options
• 🧹 Setup and testing: clean Windows install, hand-built and stress tested
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  • No bloatware, no trial software, no shovelware. A clean install, current drivers, BIOS configured and XMP or EXPO enabled and verified.
  • Every machine is stress tested on CPU, RAM and GPU before dispatch and ships with a test certificate, so you know this exact unit passed rather than a sample of the model.
  • It boots to a usable desktop out of the box. You install your own creative applications and nothing else is in the way.
• 🛡️ Warranty: 3 years parts and labour, return to base

🔌 Connectivity & Expansion

• ⚡ Thunderbolt 4 / USB4: 2 rear Type-C ports at 40Gb/s, enough for a dock and a fast external SSD at the same time without daisy-chaining
• 🔌 USB Ports (front): 2 x USB 3.0 Type-A, 1 x USB-C
• 📁 M.2 slots: 4 in total, one of them PCIe Gen5. 2 used by the drives fitted as standard, 2 free
• 🎮 Graphics slot: PCIe 5.0 x16
• 📶 Networking: Wi-Fi 7, Bluetooth 5.4, 2.5 Gigabit Ethernet

🛠️ Popular Upgrades

• 🔇 Noctua Pure Silence Setup (click/tap to learn more)

  Every case fan is replaced with a Noctua silence-optimised fan and the curves are retuned in the BIOS for the new hardware. Worth it if you record voiceover in the same room as the machine, or if you sit next to it through long renders. Not worth it if the PC lives under a desk in a separate room and noise has never bothered you.
• 💾 Larger or additional project storage (click/tap to learn more)

  Two M.2 slots are free, so more fast storage is a simple addition. Worth it if you shoot high-bitrate 6K or 8K and a 2TB project drive would fill in a month, or if you want media and cache on separate drives. Not worth it if you already archive to a NAS or external drives and only keep the live job on the machine. Options are in the listing below.
• 🔋 Uninterruptible Power Supply (UPS) (click/tap to learn more)

  Holds the system up for roughly ten minutes during a power cut, long enough to save and shut down cleanly. Worth it if you run overnight renders, work to client deadlines, or your supply is unreliable. A 5090 build pulls enough power that we would size the unit with you rather than guess. Not worth it if your work is short-session and always saved to cloud storage.
• 🗄️ NAS setup for backup and collaboration (click/tap to learn more)

  Anything from RAID-protected backup for one editor to shared storage for a small team. Worth it once losing a project would cost you a paid job, or once a second person needs the same media. Not worth it yet if you are one person with a reliable external drive routine that you actually follow. Talk to us and we will design it around your capacity and workflow.
• 🎥 Capture hardware for camera or console sources (click/tap to learn more)

  USB capture for a single camera feed, or an internal PCIe card for higher resolutions and lower latency. Worth it if you record talking-head footage direct to the machine or run live sessions. Not worth it if you shoot to cards and ingest afterwards, which is most editing workflows. Tell us your camera and target resolution and we will recommend the right one.
• 🎨 Colour-critical display and calibration advice (click/tap to learn more)

  This machine can drive high-resolution and HDR reference displays comfortably. Worth discussing if you deliver graded work to clients and are still trusting an uncalibrated panel. Not something you need to solve on day one if you are still building the workflow around it. We are happy to advise even where we are not selling you the display.

👁️ Transparency Notes

• The graphics card is shipped to you in its own separate parcel, not installed in the case (click or tap to read more)

  A 5090 is long, heavy and expensive, and a mid tower carried by a courier does not always stay the right way up. Left in the slot, that weight levers against the PCIe connector and the bracket for the whole journey. Shipping it separately, properly boxed and padded, removes that risk entirely. Fitting it takes a couple of minutes, the slot is clear and the cable is already routed and labelled, and full instructions are included. If you would rather not do it yourself, ask us on live chat and we will walk you through it live.

• Studio Three is the better buy for most creative work, and we would rather say so before you order (click or tap to read more)

  The only meaningful difference between these two machines is the graphics card and the power supply sized to feed it. If your projects already fit in a smaller card's memory, the 5090 will not halve your export times and it will not make the timeline scrub better. It removes a ceiling. That is transformative if you are hitting it and irrelevant if you are not. Message us with what you actually work on and we will tell you honestly which one to buy.

• Where a component is described generically rather than by a named model, the exact part can vary with supply (click or tap to read more)

  Named parts in the list above are the parts we fit. Generic entries, such as the drives and case fans, are specified by the characteristics that matter, TLC flash, DRAM buffering, size and colour, and we source the best available part meeting that specification at the time of build. If a specific model matters to you, confirm it with us on live chat before ordering and we will tell you exactly what is going in.

• Photographs on this listing may show a different specification in the same case (click or tap to read more)

  Your machine will look very similar but not identical. Cable routing, fan branding and card length can differ between builds. If you want to see the exact unit before it ships, ask and we will send you photographs of yours.

• A 5090 draws serious power and puts real heat into the room it lives in (click or tap to read more)

  Under a sustained render this build can pull a significant load from the wall. That is normal for this class of card and the power supply is sized for it, but it is worth knowing if the machine lives in a small room, on a heavily loaded circuit, or somewhere that already gets warm in summer. Give the case space to breathe at the front and rear.

• Some creative plugins and pipelines have their own hardware requirements that no build can guarantee (click or tap to read more)

  NVIDIA cards cover CUDA, OptiX and the AI acceleration used across Resolve, Adobe and Blender, which is the large majority of professional workflows. If you depend on a specific plugin, a codec licence, or a studio pipeline with fixed requirements, tell us what it is before you order and we will check it rather than assume.

🎯 What is this PC best for?

• 8K editing and finishing where a smaller card runs out of memory rather than out of speed
• Large 3D scenes, Unreal Engine and virtual production work that must fit entirely in video memory
• Local AI work: generative video and image models, upscaling, and large models run on your own hardware
• Complex compositing in Fusion or Nuke where deep node trees exhaust the graphics card first
• Heavy colour work with stacked noise reduction, tracking and neural effects on high-resolution footage
• Professionals who have already met the limit of a smaller card and know exactly why they are here

💬 Need help?

Not sure if this is the right spec for your workflow? Ping us on live chat and we will help you choose or tailor the perfect creator PC.