What should I upgrade to make my machine better at video editing (I am also an avid gamer)?

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Hello! Thank you in advance for anyone who supplies any kind of insight! I am an avid gamer, and I have recently been contracted out as a video editor. I have been editing video (mostly in 1080p) for about 3 months now, and my computer has gone from rendering at a reasonable rate to taking 6+ hours on a 9 minute 1080p video. I am aware that I am in desperate need of some upgrades, however I am on a budget. I don't want to spend more than about $700. That being said, I don't know where to start! What is the most important upgrade in order to make the editing process more streamlined/efficient? Or should I really replace it all? Also, do keep in mind that I do game.

My current rig consists of:

AMD Phenom II X4 955 Black Quad-Core 3.2 GHz 125W Processor

Western Digital Black 1TB 7200 RPM 64MB Cache SATA 6.0Gb/s Hard Drive

MSI 890FXA-GD70 AM3+ AMD 890FX 6 x SATA 6Gb/s AMD Motherboard with USB 3.0

G.Skill Ripjaws 8GB (2 x 4GB) 1333 Memory

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 760 Graphics card

Antec EarthWatts EA750 750W Continuous Power version 2.3 SLI

I have two displays an ASUS 21.5" LED Backlight LCD and an HP 2511x 25" LED Monitor

All housed in an Antec Nine Hundred


I would really like to make as few changes as possible, but it is more important for me to have a computer that can handle video editing on a daily basis. If the best thing is for me to just start from scratch, please feel free to tell me that is the case.

Thanks again!
 
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The cheapest solution as I see it is to upgrade the cpu to a thuban core phenom2 x6 (these arent made anymore so you may find one cheap on auction sites), 8gb more ram (2x4gb), and add in at least 1 more hdd. You want to render From one drive To a 2nd drive so that one drive isn't forced to read and write at the same time. This is at minimum. Some recommend that Windows have its own drive and some software also wants a scratch drive as well...
Also remember that as harddrives fill - they get slower. so move unneeded stuff off your rendering drives. (I partition my drives in two, reserving the first outter/faster partition for rendering and leaving the inner/slower partition for storage)

Your board supports the FX line so for a bit more money you can get an Fx8350 and cpu cooler instead of the Thuban. With editing - more cores are better than clock speed.

The "more expensive but even faster" route would be a new intel X99 build with an i7-5820k processor. This would set you back about $1200 I think.
 
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Great! Thank you so much for your input. I am considering the second option especially since Black Friday is coming up. Hoping for some deals!
 
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Thank you so much for your response! This sounds like a great solution. I do have one question however. My motherboard only accepts up to 1333 speed RAM. Is that going to effect the performance of the faster RAM?
 
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