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"good for gaming" is quite relative, if you want to be able to for example distinguish footsteps in cs:go more clearly, you can fix that in softweare if you so choose when you play, for anything else you really want to get some headphones that go really close to what the original composer/sound designer intended to be heard in the game, so you want a "flat" frequency response (if you want to understand better google frequency response of beats headphones (they have too much bass and non existant mids and shitty highs, and then google something like DT990 or HD650 frequency response and you'll see some flat shit that sound tight) The main choiche you have to make is between closedback or open headphones, you can google to get the detail but (and I am oversimplifying) Closed headphones isolate you better from outside noise EG your fans but do not give you a realistic representation of where sound seems to come from (this is called the sound stage), on the other hand open designs let sound both in and out but they give you a much better sense of space. Generally low end headphones tend to be closed. Here is a list of headphones I tried in real life that sound really great (for other headphones not included check reviews): Audio technica ATH-M50/ M40/ and M70 sound nice (the M70s are my current daily driver) Sennheiser: HD 558/598, if you want really dank ones get the HD650s (they sound amazing but you will need an amp) Beyerdynamic: DT880 and DT990 and pretty much industry standard. I once tried Audeze LCD-3s at Superbooth in Berlin and I must admit that my underwear will never be the same from that day on...

Daddy please, if you need good sound don't go for Logitech Headsets, get some propper Headphones, how much are you looking to spend?

If you have space on your current HDD I'd store them there and then I’d think of getting a TB or two, I archive everything on my 2TB black, both project files, raw video and edited video in H265 at high bitrates, remember that YouTube wrecks your beautiful videos with bitrate reduction so it would be better to keep them, no need to use an SSD, unless you work with really long or a lot of raw video you can do everything from your HDD, if you work with a lot of clips or two hour long shadowplay videos you can move them to your SSD when working on them and then store them in an archive (also adobe project files compress very well so zip them up for long term archive).

audacity is great but other entry level DAWs (digital audio workstation, stuff used for audio production and editing) maybe could help you out if you wish to get more out of the audio you get, I personally recommend Reaper, I used it for a long ass time before switching to ableton give you more possibilities with audio editing like FX processing (making your voice more present with EQ and a digital compressor or remooving a big part of your background noise) thanks to a bunch of free audio plugins (or the ones integrated in reaper are fine too). Reaper DAW: http://www.reaper.fm/ KVR audio (free plugins): https://www.kvraudio.com/plugins/windows/vst-plugins/vst3-plugins/effects/free/most-popular

http://www.brainwavzaudio.com/collections/accessories I have had great experiance with brainwavz in the past remember to check the size of your pads with the ones sold for compatibility (a little bit of wiggle room is ok and normal)

Encoding with CUDA only uses the GPU for specific effects when rendering EG Scaling and frame sampling, the kind of stuff you are doing only uses you CPU.

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That's a lot of video, I too had a similar situation but with audio (hour long Wav/Flac files get big) have you thought of just gettin an external or additional HDD to store that kind of data? it will take a long time to do all that stuff, if you are not willing to get another drive and go for maximum compression I would recommend you look into H265 it is slower to encode but it offers much higher quality and 20-30%lower file size at the same bitrate as the original file (even better if you lower the bitrate). ah also I made sure that AMC supports Cuda

How many hours of video are we talking?

You could get a http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=9SIA24G4D66893&cm_re=gtx_1070-_-14-125-871-_-Product and it's just 10 dollars more than a stock 1070 (I hate stock cards, I like silence), would go for the MSI version but it's out of stock sadly. I have had a very positive experiance with Zotac in the past so check this one out http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=9SIA2F84889680&cm_re=zotac_1070-_-14-500-401-_-Product

I've used adobe media encoder before and it worked quite well. but check out handbrake, since you are dealing with h264 video and just trying to compress it, why not go for h265 (HVEC), it's more efficent and keeps a much better quality even at lower bitrates!