Upgrading PC Built for Summer (About 3000-3500$ Worth)

Hossein_AAA

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Hello guys, this is probably the millionth thread you answered lol. but I really need someone else's perspective.
So currently I have a custom PC:
i7-6700k
Z170-Pro by Ausu
4*8GB G.Skill Ripjaw V 3200MHz
700w PSU by Cooler master.
2* Samsung EVO 750 500GB SSDs (RAID 0)
2* 4TB Seagate barracuda HDDs
GTX 1070 FE
Cooler Master N400 Case

This is undeniably a perfect machine for gaming of course. But in my case because I'm doing a lot of editing and rendering, it gets a little annoying time to time. Sometimes Doing a 18-24 hour After Effect Rendering, or long Handbrake Transcoding.
And my brother is looking to get a PC and he's willing to buy All or parts of my built.

So here's the part I need help:
Which parts of my current PC should I keep for my new PC for end of June And which Parts Should I upgrade and what to?
I do like 40% gaming And 60% Video editing, Rendering, Transcoding for 3D Applications like Maxon And Adobe.
And I will have saved up 1000$ by end of June, so tell me what should I upgrade to or should I wait for x299.
Thanks for your time!
 

Hossein_AAA

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Nov 10, 2016
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After doing a lot of research, New AMD CPUs sound promising. Are you sure I can go the AMD path? I've never used one before. Though I still have till July, is there any other option that I can consider?
 


Well they are not, sadly games aren't optimized too well for them.
In gaming benchmarks it was seen that CPU usages on Ryzen processors were way lower than the Intel processors that were compared. So clearly it's an optimization problem. We're not sure when games will be optimized or if they'll be at all.
 

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