What would you upgrade first?

[bigbob]

Imagine you have $400 to upgrade it for editing HD videos.

What would you buy?

[chrsplmr]

Welcome to ROG .. I would buy the best GPU available at the time of purchase for $400 including shipping. .c.

[kkn]

chrsplmr wrote:
Welcome to ROG .. I would buy the best GPU available at the time of purchase for $400 including shipping. .c.

then he would need a larger PSU.

[Arne_Saknussemm]

Hmm for video editing I'd get a 3770K and a H100i and OC the 3770K to 4.6GHz 😄

[Antronman]

Larger PSU + Better GPU.

Try this:

Video Card: Asus GeForce GTX 760 2GB DirectCU II Video Card ($239.99 @ Newegg)
Power Supply: EVGA 850W 80+ Gold Certified Fully-Modular ATX Power Supply ($129.99 @ NCIX US)
Total: $369.98
(Prices include shipping, taxes, and discounts when available.)
(Generated by PCPartPicker 2014-05-12 11:53 EDT-0400)

I would recommend Arne's solution, but you'd need a better PSU which would raise the cost to more than 400USD.

[Arne_Saknussemm]

Total power draw for 3770K at 4.8GHz 244W http://www.bit-tech.net/hardware/2012/04/23/intel-core-i7-3770k-review/8

I reckon that Seasonic could handle it 🙂

[bigbob]

Thanks. The whole system is drawing 130W normally so there should be headroom for a proper CPU.

You'd recommend an i7 3770k over an i5 2500k and 16GB RAM?

What about this - http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16819113284 ?

Would you recommend a CPU over a GPU for mainly editing huge video files?

[Arne_Saknussemm]

bigbob wrote:
You'd recommend an i7 3770k over an i5 2500k and 16GB RAM?

Yes I would...the 3770K has hyperthreading effectively giving you 8 cores the i5 does not...

And OCing it would improve performance a lot. More RAM would be good but upgrading that don't buy a second kit to combine with the one you have even of same make and model. Get a single 16GB kit.....

[bigbob]

Thanks very much for your advice! Will get the i7 3770K as suggested. This will be a better option than the AMD FX-8350 Black Edition Vishera 4.0GHz (4.2GHz Turbo) http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16819113284 and 2x8GB RAM?

[Arne_Saknussemm]

Yes, I think the Intel CPU is better for what you want...and of course fits your motherboard....for the AMD CPU you would need a new motherboard too