Whats my bottleneck? (Video Editing)

Oct 17, 2018
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Looking for some potential upgrade advice come black friday. Below are my specs, I do 90% of my work on Premiere CC, I pretty much only game on CS:GO so gaming performance isn't huge on my list, I've also just ordered a Samsung 860 EVO 500GB SSD to operate as my Video Editing drive. I'm thinking it's either my rx480 due to the lack of cuda cores, but would an upgrade to a 1060 6gb make much of a noticeable difference or should I be looking elsewhere? I'm ideally only looking to drop £2-300 on any potential upgrade. Thanks in advance.

p.s. these are all stock clocks, I've not oc'd anything, should I just consider doing that?

Operating System
Windows 10 Pro 64-bit
CPU
Intel Core i5 6600K @ 3.50GHz 23 °C
Skylake 14nm Technology
RAM
Corsair CMK16GX4M4B3000C15 Vengeance LPX 16 GB (4 x 4 GB) DDR4 3000 MHz
Motherboard
Gigabyte Technology Co. Ltd. Z170-Gaming K3-CF (U3E1)
Graphics
XG2401 SERIES (1920x1080@144Hz)
8192MB ATI Radeon RX 480 Graphics (MSI)
Storage
1863GB Seagate ST2000DL003-9VT166 (SATA )
223GB SanDisk SDSSDHII240G (SATA (SSD))
931GB ASMT 2115 USB Device (USB (SATA) )
 
1066Mhz is DDR3 RAM. 1066 is old as hell and I'm suprised that motherboard even reads it.

I would suggest uograding to DDR4, 3200Mhz. It'll make a huge difference!

The rest of your build is fast enough to run Premiere. That GPU is more than enough for Premiere.
 
Oct 17, 2018
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I've only just noticed the software I used to detect all the hardware came up with the wrong info for the memory, I'm actually using Corsair CMK16GX4M4B3000C15 Vengeance LPX 16 GB (4 x 4 GB) DDR4 3000 MHz, I've since overlocked to 4.2ghz, used xmp profile 1 for the memory and clocked my gpu slightly but not noticed a huge difference in rendering times yet.