Upgrade Advice - What could I keep from this rig...

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Hi, I am looking to upgrade my system - Primary activity is graphic designing and video editing.

I am thinking of i9 9900k with a suitable motherboard and graphics card. Please suggest the motherboard and graphics card options or even if there is a better processor. Also, I would like to know what are the components I can retain from this existing rig.

Thanks a bunch!

  1. INTEL CORE I7 6700K 4.00 GHZ 8M PROCESSOR CACHE
  2. GIGABYTE GA-Z170X-UD5 TH MOTHERBOARD
  3. ASUS NVIDIA STRIX GTX 970 4 GB GDDR5
  4. CORSAIR VENGEANCE LPX DDR4 2400 MHZ (BLACK) 8GB X 2 (16 GB)
  5. SAMSUNG 850 EVO SSD - 500GB
  6. SEAGATE BARRACUDA 2TB DESKTOP SATA (7200RPM)
  7. LG 24 INCHES IPS MONITOR - 24MP88
  8. LG DH12B2SH02B BLU-RAY WRITER
  9. COOLER MASTER GM750
  10. COOLER MASTER SEIDON 120V PLUS (LIQUID CPU COOLER)
  11. COOLER MASTER ELITE 431 PLUS CPU CABINET
 
Welcome to forum.

Recommend waiting three weeks more for getting Zen2 Ryzens into shops.
12 core/24 thread 3900X should cost pretty same as that 8c/16t 9900K.
Unless you like having all same Windows security patches needing vulnerabilities of same rebranded architecture...
Honestly Intel should be at most in 7th "generation".
Because only significant thing they've done since that 6th gen Skylake is cranking up clocks and increasing core count when forced by competition.

As for graphics card overall it's not that heavily used in video editing, unless you use GPU encoding.
Ability to use GPU varies between programs, so what softwares you use?


For reusable parts that 2400 MHz memory would be handicap of some degree to any high end CPU.

SSD and HDD again are perfectly usable.
Except for direct stream cutting/joining video editing is computationally limited.
And in fact for example in game loading times there's little practical difference between SATA SSDs and snake oil synthetic benchmarketing number NVMe SSDs.

Optical drive is another obvious keeper if you need it.

Case is also reusable, though could use some modding to improve cooling.
Myself would replace its rear exhaust fan's stamped mesh with goold old wire made finger guard.
Also front intake fan seems to be restricted by some crappy stamped mesh behind that front mask. (reviews don't have good pics of that)
If not able to do that then would switch all case fans to high pressure capable ones.

That PSU has cheap capacitors in it, so would at least put that to replace in couple years category, if you use PC lot daily.
(Coolermaster has only few actual quality PSUs)

Also that waterpipe cooler could have degraded.
Unlike space applications reliable heatpipes, waterpipe coolers have many degradation/wear mechanisms.
And it was never that good in the first place when just standard cooler like Hyper 212 is better in cooling per noise.
So its adequency for todays high end CPUs is also questionable.


While monitor is reusable those uses would really benefit from bigger resolution.
Would personally consider 2560x1440 as absolute minimum just for web browsing and such general use.
And even that marketing BS 16:9 would be downgrade from 2560x1600 I've used for I guess 5½ years.
 
Welcome to forum.

Recommend waiting three weeks more for getting Zen2 Ryzens into shops.
12 core/24 thread 3900X should cost pretty same as that 8c/16t 9900K.
Unless you like having all same Windows security patches needing vulnerabilities of same rebranded architecture...
Honestly Intel should be at most in 7th "generation".
Because only significant thing they've done since that 6th gen Skylake is cranking up clocks and increasing core count when forced by competition.

As for graphics card overall it's not that heavily used in video editing, unless you use GPU encoding.
Ability to use GPU varies between programs, so what softwares you use?


For reusable parts that 2400 MHz memory would be handicap of some degree to any high end CPU.

SSD and HDD again are perfectly usable.
Except for direct stream cutting/joining video editing is computationally limited.
And in fact for example in game loading times there's little practical difference between SATA SSDs and snake oil synthetic benchmarketing number NVMe SSDs.

Optical drive is another obvious keeper if you need it.

Case is also reusable, though could use some modding to improve cooling.
Myself would replace its rear exhaust fan's stamped mesh with goold old wire made finger guard.
Also front intake fan seems to be restricted by some crappy stamped mesh behind that front mask. (reviews don't have good pics of that)
If not able to do that then would switch all case fans to high pressure capable ones.

That PSU has cheap capacitors in it, so would at least put that to replace in couple years category, if you use PC lot daily.
(Coolermaster has only few actual quality PSUs)

Also that waterpipe cooler could have degraded.
Unlike space applications reliable heatpipes, waterpipe coolers have many degradation/wear mechanisms.
And it was never that good in the first place when just standard cooler like Hyper 212 is better in cooling per noise.
So its adequency for todays high end CPUs is also questionable.


While monitor is reusable those uses would really benefit from bigger resolution.
Would personally consider 2560x1440 as absolute minimum just for web browsing and such general use.
And even that marketing BS 16:9 would be downgrade from 2560x1600 I've used for I guess 5½ years.

Thanks!
 
@shiv
what programs are you using ?

Adobe favours Intel more currently . 2700x catches up nicely though thanks to adobe finally updating their coding. as @EsaT has mentioned, 12 core 3900x should get past 9900k due to increased core count as well as getting much needed speed increase from ryzen 2*** . and as they mentioned, roughly same price as 9900k !

2400hz ram isn't so much of a handy cap on intels . current ryzen chips its shooting yourself in the foot. Ryzen 12/16 cores it would also handicap it, but not as bad ! though 2400hz does hurt current ryzen a lot!

9900 non K isn't out in the UK which is another shame, as it would have given a nice option for cheaper- it still runs just as fast as the K version across all cores!

but yeah, wait till the 7th. and keep an eye out here

https://www.pugetsystems.com/all_articles.php?filter[]=Premiere Pro
 
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