What part(s) to upgrade for 4K video editing?

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My Dad asked me what he should upgrade as even just playing back 4K video he's recorded on his new Sony 4K camcorder seems slow and 'jittery'

His current system =
i5-3570K (not overclocked)
16 GB Ram
1 * 120GB SSD
2 * 2TB drives in Raid mode = 2TB
Geforce 670

Not sure he has the money to go for what I'd suggest which is maybe a new Ryzen 1700 system.
I've done some hard disk benchmarks and it looks like he's getting ~270Mbytes/sec from his Intel SSD, and ~310Mbytes/sec from his Raided mechanical drives.

I was going to suggest a 4790K plus a M.2 PCIe x4 adapter and fast m.2 stick.

Would this make much difference, or would the GPU be holding him back. Software is Adobe stuff as far as I know. Any suggestions please.
 
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