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noel86f

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Hi guys, I've been giving an old computer at work for editing and creating graphics, and it's not up to scratch. It can do the work, but incredibly slowly. I'm often staring at the monitor for an hour as it tries to render a five minute video. Unfortunately, I don't know enough about hardware to work out what upgrades would be best.
I'm running Adobe CC, and as best as I can tell, according to crucial scan, my specs are:

Ram-16gb, can take 32gb;
Intel H67
Intel Core i5-2500 @3.30GHz;
Graphics card- PCI Express x16


Any advice would be greatly appreciated. Would a new graphics card be enough to help, and if so, any recommendations?
Thanks in advance...
Noel
 
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noel86f

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It's a work computer, so no gaming, unfortunately...
I've been tasked with the cheapest upgrade possible, so a few hundred pounds, probably. Definitely not more than £300, so a new motherboard is probably out of the question.
 
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CPU: Xeon E3-1230 v2 ... but first you would have to provide exact mobo model to check if it could handle it.
SSD: any

This CPU is in price range of i5 but has 8 threads and works on most LGA 1155 mobos. So would boost general performance a bit.
SSD would boost those process that requires good HDD perfomance.

Also RAM upgrade could also do some good, but only if you are already exceeding the limits (check task manager on heavy load), if not then its waste or cash.

 
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noel86f

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Guys, thank you so much, that gives me something to work on for now. I'm trying to work out my exact motherboard to see what is actually compatible. I'll report back.
 
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noel86f

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Hi guys, further developments to my upgrade situation. I've managed to procure a different computer with a
: 3.5 ghz i7 ;
motherboard: FC Gigabyte GA-PH67-DS3-B3 DUAL CHANNEL DDR3 DUAL BIOS PCI Express 2.0
graphics: GeForce 210 1024 Mb DDR3

Any recommendations for a suitable graphics card? Preferably sub £300, and to be used to edit DSLR video and create graphics in After Effects.

Thanks again for your help and expertise...
Noel
 
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noel86f

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Also, and I'm seriously showing my lack of knowledge here- how much impact will running a second monitor have?
And just incase you're wondering, there is 16gb ram...
 
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After Effects is CPU and RAM bound so GPU will not matter too much. It seems like AMD cards outperform nVidia in video editing and rendering. £300 can get you up to a GTX 780, so you have a lot of options. I am not familiar with what is available in England, so I cannot provide links, but Any R9 card or GTX 770 or higher would be your best performers. More RAM will help After effects. Maybe add 16GB RAM and use the rest of the money for a GPU? Possibly an R9 270x or R9 280.

With either of the video cards mentioned, Dual monitors would only make your job easier :) It will put little if any stress on your system. I am assuming you are doing HD though. 4K would be too much for your system.
 
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