Advice on upgrade

cocorourke

cocorourke

cocorourke

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Hi all,

I'm looking to upgrade a system I bought around 4 years ago from overclockers. It still performs well generally, but I've started editing 4k video footage in adobe premiere CC and its struggling a bit. Its still very usable, but I have to render out frequently which takes some time.

Would anyone be able to give some advice on how I could best upgrade the system to speed it up for video editing. The obvious thing is the RAM - but would the motherboard support a RAM upgrade?

BATTLEFIELD WAR RUSH INTEL CORE I5 2500K 3.30GHZ @ 4.40GHZ DDR3 LIMITED EDITION QUAD CORE GAMING PC

System Specification
- Case: Corsair 300R Carbide Mid Tower - Case
- Power Supply: Corsair GS 600W PSU
- CPU: Intel Core i5 2500K 3.30GHz @ 4.40GHz Sandybridge CPU
- Motherboard: Gigabyte Z77-D3H Intel Z77 (Socket 1155) DDR3 Motherboard
- Cooler: Prolimatech Panther CPU Cooler
- RAM: Samsung Green (MV-3V4G3D/US) 8GB (2x4GB) DDR3 PC3-12800C11 1600MHz 30nm Dual Channel Kit
- Hard Drive: Seagate Barracuda 7200.12 500GB SATA 6Gb/s 16MB Cache HDD
- Graphics Card: OcUK GeForce GTX 460 1024MB GDDR5 PCI-Express Graphics Card
- Sound: Realtek 7.1 Channel Sound (On-Board)
- Optical Drive: OcUK 24x DVD+/-RW SATA Drive

Thanks in advance,
Chris
 
A further 2x4GB or 2x8GB DDR3. You could then have 16GB or 24GB.

SSD (a number of them can speed things up even more but even just one will be a good improvement) 250GB minimum.

Second-hand i7

4GB video card 380/960 or above. Second-hand 4GB 670/680 may also be an option. Nvidia with Cuda support may still be best for Premiere CC, not sure. There's all this talk about support for OpenCL and AMD catching up but very few benchmarks to settle the matter at present, one way or the other. Get more info from others on this.

In any case, I'd start with the RAM and SSD. See how things improve. As you may want to consider upgrading CPU/mobo platform instead of spending more on upgrading the older platform. You would have to buy DDR4 memory later if you went down this avenue though, so it all depends on how much you're willing to spend just now.


My basket at Overclockers UK:

Total: £127.67
(includes shipping: £8.70)
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