Upgrading system for Video Editing

ElArkitechto

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I been doing some digging around, I have around 2K to spend. I will be keeping my current case, psu and hdd.

AE, Premiere, Photoshop, lots of audio stuff (very cpu intensive plugins)

What do you think?

RAM: CORSAIR Vengeance Pro 16GB (4 x 8GB) 240-Pin DDR3 SDRAM DDR3 2133

GPU: NVIDIA® Quadro® K4000 VCQK4000-PB 3GB GDDR5 PCI Express 2.0 x16

FAN: COOLER MASTER Hyper 212 EVO RR-212E-20PK-R2 Continuous Direct Contact 120mm Sleeve CPU Cooler Compatible with latest Intel 2011

CPU: Intel Core i7-4930K Ivy Bridge-E 3.4GHz LGA 2011 130W Six-Core Desktop Processor

MOBO: MSI X79A-GD45 Plus LGA 2011 Intel X79 SATA 6Gb/s USB 3.0 ATX Intel Motherboard
 
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Yes. The 780 would be excellent for After Effects, especially when using the ray traced 3D feature. Premiere will use the CUDA cores for Mercury Playback, and Photoshop for the Mercury Graphics Engine.

http://blogs.adobe.com/aftereffects/2012/05/gpu-cuda-opengl-features-in-after-effects-cs6.html

http://helpx.adobe.com/after-effects/using/rendering-opengl.html

http://www.nvidia.com/object/adobe-cs6.html

ACTechy

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While Quadros are excellent for color and whatnot, I would go for a GTX 780 if you're going to spend that much. Just my opinion. Far more CUDA cores, same VRAM, much higher bandwidth. Maybe you have experience with the K4000 and really like it, if so you know what you want. If your OS/budget will allow it, you could throw some more RAM, the more you have, the more you get from Adobe programs. You noted 16GB (4 x 8GB) (which would be 32GB) so not sure which you meant, but definitely take advantage of that quad channel RAM! Other than those thoughts, looks awesome!
 

ElArkitechto

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Thx ACTechy. Not precisely a fan of anything, not even intel, but since I don't plan on moving to Adobe CC, it seems that Nvidia works better than Asus. Or so I've been told. Oh and yes it's 32 gb of ram, I was lazy since the packs come with 2 8gb and didn't correct the total. :)
 

ACTechy

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Not sure what you mean, but you definitely want nvidia for CUDA cores. Maybe you mean nvidia is better than AMD for Adobe, and you'd be exactly right, and the GTX 780 is nvidia.
 

ElArkitechto

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LOL. You're totally right, I looked it and confused AMD with ASUS. Thx for the advice.
 

ACTechy

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Yes. The 780 would be excellent for After Effects, especially when using the ray traced 3D feature. Premiere will use the CUDA cores for Mercury Playback, and Photoshop for the Mercury Graphics Engine.

http://blogs.adobe.com/aftereffects/2012/05/gpu-cuda-opengl-features-in-after-effects-cs6.html

http://helpx.adobe.com/after-effects/using/rendering-opengl.html

http://www.nvidia.com/object/adobe-cs6.html
 
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