Howdy,
I am new to PC building and need a good place to start with this project.
I am looking for advice on creating an upgrade/rebuild road map for this HP Pavilion Gaming Power Desktop that was on sale at Costco. I bought it last year after my Mac kicked the bucket and was in a rush.
I mainly use it for 4k video editing (Mavic Pro), software development, and light gaming.
It gets the job done but I would like more power for 4k editing and greater system stability. I removed all the bloatware I could but there still are some slow response times when working in any editor.
My goal is to salvage what I can off this current box and rebuild it into a general purpose 4k editor that can also game slightly above the performance of an Xbox One X.
Here are the current specs:
Ryzen 7 1700
16GB DDR4 (2-DIMM) 2666MHz RAM
AMD Radeon RX 550 4gb
1TB 7200RPM SATA HD (Use for media storage)
Samsung 970 EVO 250GB M.2 NVMe (Boot and Program storage, I added this after buying it)
310 Watt HP Power Supply
Proprietary HP Tower and Motherboard
Would anybody have some advice on where to start?
Thanks