1080 heavy editing PC upgrade

[wwiisgttom]

I am looking for to upgrade my current build for editing 1080p 10 bit videos from the GH5.

I do fairly heavy editing. So like two videos being overlapped one with a blurred effect on it, combined with things like color curves and noise reduction.

I use Vegas 15 and am looking for smooth playback at good auto settings up to 60fps.

My current build is
Intel Core i5 6600K 3.50 GHz
GIGABYTE Radeon R9 290X 4GB
16gb of RAM

SSDs
Samsung 850 EVO
SanDisk Ultra II SATA III 2

Should I get decent performance with this or am I doing something wrong?

 

[Kashimi]

If you're looking to upgrade the GPU I'd go with this : https://www.amazon.com/Gigabyte-GeForce-1060-WINDFORCE-GV-N1060WF2OC-6GD/dp/B01JNUO6BG/ref=sr_1_3?s=electronics&ie=UTF8&qid=1535002727&sr=1-3&keywords=1060%2Bsc&th=1

If you are looking for someone to rate your setup to make you feel confident about what you have, I can't help. I don't follow AMD products so I honestly don't know what an R9 290X is.

 

[bmockeg]

Probably could use a 6-8 core CPU, Ryzen would probably make a world of,difference.

 

[Kashimi]

Yea. I'm not familiar with Ryzen or AMD enough to give recommendations. I will say that anytime someone asks about editing video or such, my default answer is "go with the highest core count AMD you can afford, I can't tell you anything about them, but I know that the more cores you have, the better performance you'll have rendering or editing"

 

[bmockeg]

This is a good upgrade.

PCPartPicker part list / Price breakdown by merchant

CPU: AMD - Ryzen 7 2700X 3.7GHz 8-Core Processor ($319.99 @ Amazon)
Motherboard: ASRock - Fatal1ty X470 Gaming K4 ATX AM4 Motherboard ($134.99 @ Newegg)
Total: $454.98
Prices include shipping, taxes, and discounts when available
Generated by PCPartPicker 2018-08-23 01:46 EDT-0400

 

[wwiisgttom]

So more cores is the way to go. I know AMD is certainly more affordable when it comes to cores. I thought Intel cpu's are more efficient even with less cores though?

 

[bmockeg]

Video editing will utilize more cores.