Looking to upgrade my PC for 4K video editing with Davinci Resolve

[StormTrooper]

Current PC specs are:

• Asus Z170-E motherboard
• i7 6700K 4.0GHz (currently not OC'd)
• 32GB Corsair Vengeance 3000Mhz RAM
• GTX970 Strix
• Corsair CX750 power supply
• Corsair Carbide SPEC-03 Mid-Tower Case

Was looking at upgrading the GPU to the Sparkle Intel ARC B580 TITAN OC 12GB card as it's within my budget. Is this the best/right upgrade for my needs, and more importantly, will it fit?

Thanks in advance.

 

[Tetras]

and more importantly, will it fit?

From what I can see your case is a whopper, so I think it will fit fine, but Corsair don't appear to have a spec page for it anymore, so I can't check what they state the max length is.

Easy answer: take the side panel off, get a tape measure and check it yourself.

Is this the best/right upgrade for my needs

Intel generally do not recommend that you use Arc on a PC earlier than 10th gen, because they're designed to use rebar, but I don't know if you can enable it on your motherboard, or if the lack of rebar even matters when you're not gaming with it.

In the circumstances, you might be better off with a 3060 12GB (assuming you need the VRAM).

 

[GreatAuk]

Depends a bit what the reason for upgrade is. For general use in Davinci Resolve a cpu upgrade might be a more noticeable difference, but for some effects or some encoding tasks a gou upgrade will make a bigger difference.

Issue with a cpu upgrade is that there isn't really a good drop in upgrade for a 6700k, would make more sense to upgrade to a modern platform but of course that means mobo and RAM upgrade too.

 

[StormTrooper]

Intel generally do not recommend that you use Arc on a PC earlier than 10th gen, because they're designed to use rebar, but I don't know if you can enable it on your motherboard, or if the lack of rebar even matters when you're not gaming with it.

In the circumstances, you might be better off with a 3060 12GB (assuming you need the VRAM).

Thanks for the reply, this was exactly the sort of stumbling block I needed to know about.

3060 12GB has just been ordered.

Depends a bit what the reason for upgrade is. For general use in Davinci Resolve a cpu upgrade might be a more noticeable difference, but for some effects or some encoding tasks a gou upgrade will make a bigger difference.

Minimal editing and effects but very very heavy colouring. If I'm reading task manager right, the rendering I'm doing is mostly GPU dependant, the CPU is barely doing anything at all.

I'd love to do a full upgrade, but I just don't have the budget for it right now.

 

[Farore]

Did you consider a Mac mini M4?

 

[StormTrooper]

In the circumstances, you might be better off with a 3060 12GB (assuming you need the VRAM).

Thanks for the reply, this was exactly the sort of stumbling block I needed to know about.

3060 12GB has just been ordered.

RTX 3060 arrived yesterday from Overclockers, install was simple and it fit no problems.

Video that previously took 5 days, 10 hours to render in 4K, now takes 1 day, 1 hour. Couldn't be happier.