Upgrade Road Map after Buying a Prebuilt

[emorales0411]

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

 

 

[LukeSavenije]

yes... get that gpu up, a nice new psu and if needed a new tower

 

upgrade the cpu to a zen 2 chip that should come out somewhere this year (rumors indicate May)

[emorales0411]

I am planning on getting a new tower, motherboard, and psu first since I can't upgrade with what I have now.

 

I am considering an RTX 2060. Will that preform well with my 1700? 

 

My planned budget will be between 500-600 which leaves little room to upgrade the processor.

 

 

 

[NunoLava1998]

9 minutes ago, emorales0411 said:

I am planning on getting a new tower, motherboard, and psu first since I can't upgrade with what I have now.

 

I am considering an RTX 2060. Will that preform well with my 1700? 

 

My planned budget will be between 500-600 which leaves little room to upgrade the processor.

 

 

 

A 1700 will work pretty well with a 2060.

 

Additionally, if your workload relies on speed, get a NVMe drive at the very least (3D XPoint if you very much need speed).

[emorales0411]

6 minutes ago, NunoLava1998 said:

A 1700 will work pretty well with a 2060.

 

Additionally, if your workload relies on speed, get a NVMe drive at the very least (3D XPoint if you very much need speed).

Sweet, I was hoping the 1700 would hold up.

 

Would anybody have any case, motherboard, and psu wattage recommendations? 

 

I have some ideas from what to look for but would appreciate some input.