Video Editing: Upgrade or build a new rig?

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JayBates86

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Current PC build that I am using:
http://pcpartpicker.com/p/tqQPVn

I make YouTube videos for a living. Personal/Business computer used for Adobe Premiere Pro video editing, Photoshop, and checking email only. Zero game play. I built my current PC about 2 years ago. The graphics card keeps giving me problems and I have to turn off all GPU acceleration when editing or everything will crash. I've tried different drivers and video editors but no matter what this card has given me problems since day one. Which leaves me to edit and render with just CPU. I only shoot in 1080 so nothing for 4k would be needed....but maybe an upgrade to a 4k camera in the next couple years?

Can a good graphics card make that big of a difference with my current rig? Should I heavily upgrade just my graphics card to help with Premiere Pro or just sell this PC and build a $2k video editing rig for better future proofing? I also maxed my ram at 16gb for my motherboard and regularly hit 10-12gb used in Premiere Pro.

I have dual inexpensive 1920x1080 24" ASUS monitors.

Any advice/perspective is much appreciated. Thank you.
 
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Justin Millard
Probably the cheapest option for a massive performance boost would be to upgrade the power supply to 700w and run a second 7870 (or R9 270X). That way you have plenty of GPU power, and you can work out if the first 7870 GPU was fine, or if it was just getting overloaded by trying to run two monitors as well as graphics acceleration.

370X and 380X cards are coming out mid-year too and I am backing them in to still have good compute performance. Although you will probably have to wait a few months after for Adobe to add support again.
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Do you use the latest version of Premiere Pro? If so a GTX 970 should provide a decent upgrade for two monitors and it also provides CUDA which helps with premiere pro.
Otherwise I can't recommend an older GTX 770 for your power supply. It would cause issues too, and a GTX 760 isn't really an upgrade.

As far as AMD you can't fit a second 7870 into that system so maybe a R9 280 (don't get the x version it will stress your power supply) would be an ok upgrade.

Internal graphics on Xeons are terrible so my belief is its better to get an i7 for dual monitor setups.
So you have one graphics card displaying things on the monitors, freeing up the GPU for acceleration.

One of the aims of Broadwell and Skylake intel processors is to improve the integrated graphics on the i5 and i7 so their CPUs work much better for these tasks.

Upgrading to a Broadwell i7 or Skylake i7 once they have been on the market long enough to get good driver support should be a handy upgrade if you don't want another GPU.

The other option is to check if your graphics card has been faulty all this time. You might still be able to get it swapped for an R9 270 (roughly same card) if its a manufacturing fault. Go through the RMA process with the people who sold it to you originally.
 
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Probably the cheapest option for a massive performance boost would be to upgrade the power supply to 700w and run a second 7870 (or R9 270X). That way you have plenty of GPU power, and you can work out if the first 7870 GPU was fine, or if it was just getting overloaded by trying to run two monitors as well as graphics acceleration.

370X and 380X cards are coming out mid-year too and I am backing them in to still have good compute performance. Although you will probably have to wait a few months after for Adobe to add support again.
 
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