upgrading on a budget AMD to Intel question on power supply

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I'm upgrading on a budget. I've got 1000$ to spend.

I'm using part out of my current system as I switch from AMD to Intel as my 1100t just dosn't keep up with heavy editing. I have a question on my power supply. My current power supply is an Antec he550 and I am trying to pinch pennies to afford an Nvidia card for After Effects.

http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16817103941

Currently in my cart I have

I7-4790k
Asus z97-a motherboard
Corsair Vengeance lp 16gb (2x8) 1866
and a Corsair HX750.

That leaves me 212$ and hardly enough for a video card right now. If I can continue to use my 550w power supply I will have 341$ and that opens me up to a decent 4gb video card. I will put more money into the system down the line and I don't need to overclock the 4790k now as I'm sure it will blow my 1100t at 3.8ghz out of the water.

I would just like a little more knowledgeable opinion on if the HE550 will be enough to run my system until I can afford the PSU upgrade a month or two down the line.

Additional- I also have
2 - SATA hard drives
1 - DVDRW
3 - devices running off usb

PS. If I need to upgrade the power supply the extra money is going to go towards another 16gb of ram.
 
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I wouldn't worry too much about the Nvidia card now. After effects can use AMD, NVidia or intel GPU's for 99% of the GPU assisted rendering, which is only a small portion of the actual rendering anyways. It's only in 3D ray tracing that is NVidia specific, so unless that is all you use after effects for, getting a massive gpu isn't going to boost much. 32gb ram vs 16gb would probably give more benefit for bigger models than the GPU is going to add.

Most commerical software doesn't really benefit that much yet from GPU rendering. Besides GPU coin mining, or specific apps' written for GPU processing, most graphics software relies very little on GPU assistance.
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I wouldn't worry too much about the Nvidia card now. After effects can use AMD, NVidia or intel GPU's for 99% of the GPU assisted rendering, which is only a small portion of the actual rendering anyways. It's only in 3D ray tracing that is NVidia specific, so unless that is all you use after effects for, getting a massive gpu isn't going to boost much. 32gb ram vs 16gb would probably give more benefit for bigger models than the GPU is going to add.

Most commerical software doesn't really benefit that much yet from GPU rendering. Besides GPU coin mining, or specific apps' written for GPU processing, most graphics software relies very little on GPU assistance.
 
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lol, Sorry did it keep posting the thread? I was having a hard time getting the confirmation email to send to my Gmail address.

I currently have a sapphire 7850oc but it does nothing with Adobe software because it dosn't have CUDA cores. I just cant take the rendering times on my current PC, I might as well go out for lunch anytime I want to render through something especially making 3D title screens and other stuff of that nature.
 
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Thank you I went with the ram since I would be upgrading to 32 down the line I think its better to get a kit of 32 now and not have to worry about compatability problems in the future.
 
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