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I have a motherboard with an i7 4770, 32GB RAM and NVIDIA GeForce GTX 770. I'd really like to speed up video transcoding. Can I double video transcode performance with an 1150 socket compatible CPU upgrade and/or replacing the video card? Or am I going to be out less money replacing the whole m/b?
The motherboard is a Gigabyte Z8X7-UD5H.
 
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If the software you are using is using your GPU for processing (CUDA) then I would simply upgrade the graphics card yes to something like a GTX 1060 or GTX 1070. The performance gains depend entirely on the software you are using so we cannot give you a definitive answer but if you were using CUDA then that would be a big upgrade. Generally speaking the GTX 1070 is 100% faster than a GTX 770 and the GTX 1060 6GB is 50% times faster.

Without taking overclocking into account, it's not worth it to upgrade the processor to another on the same platform. You already have one of the top processors on that platform besides an overclocked 4790k. You already have hyper-threading as well. Those processors are also still expensive vs a new CPU is...
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If the software you are using is using your GPU for processing (CUDA) then I would simply upgrade the graphics card yes to something like a GTX 1060 or GTX 1070. The performance gains depend entirely on the software you are using so we cannot give you a definitive answer but if you were using CUDA then that would be a big upgrade. Generally speaking the GTX 1070 is 100% faster than a GTX 770 and the GTX 1060 6GB is 50% times faster.

Without taking overclocking into account, it's not worth it to upgrade the processor to another on the same platform. You already have one of the top processors on that platform besides an overclocked 4790k. You already have hyper-threading as well. Those processors are also still expensive vs a new CPU is it's still a strong chip even for current applications and gaming.

I would load up the programs you use for video transcoding and HWInfo, get some work happening, figure out which of these two your software is more geared towards (CPU, GPU, or both), see which one of these two is hitting 100% usage and go from there. If you are using your CPU for transcoding for some reason a GPU upgrade would do nothing. If you are hitting your CPU hardest THEN I would consider (if GPU transcoding is not possible with your software) to upgrade to a newer platform.
 
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