Post Production | Upgrade Needed

[LegoLink]

1. Budget & Location

Looking to stay around a $500-$800ish budget for upgrades and I'm located in the US

2. Aim

The main purpose for my upgrade is to improve performance in Premiere and After Effects when working on larger project files. I can currently work on native 4k files but as the project file increases the more I start to see it struggle. I also have done some light 3D rendering with Maya. Besides work I also like to run a Minecraft server >20 people.

3. Monitors

I run 2 monitors a single 4k 60hz display for color content and a 1440p 144hz for gaming.

4. Why are you upgrading?

Besides the above mentioned goals I've felt like overall system has slowed down, chrome doesn't feel as snappy, windows 10 file searching can be awful at times. Lastly I feel like my poor drive selection could also be the main culprit for my post-production work so I would love to recommendations. 

5. Current Specs

RTX 2080
i7-5820K CPU @3.30GHz
64GB of Ram DDR4 2400
SSD 950 PRO NVMe M.2 512GB (OS and media cache + only 80gb free)

3TB Red Western Digital HD (games, documents, etc)

4TB G-Drive USB C (Not very fast and is what I edit off of)

 

[FilipposTechGR]

With that budget, the biggest upgrade you’ll notice for Premiere After Effects is moving to a more modern CPU + platform. Your 5820K is really showing its age, even with lots of RAM. A Ryzen 7 5800X3D or 13700K/12700K with a new board would give you a huge bump in both single-thread and multi-thread performance.

Also, your 950 Pro is old and nearly full  storage speed and free space matter a lot for video work. A 2TB NVMe Gen 3 or Gen 4 would help timeline scrubbing and caching feel way snappier.

The 2080 is still solid for GPU acceleration, so you can hold onto it for now. If you upgrade CPU + storage first, you’ll already see a massive difference in overall smoothness.

[brob]

Replacing the HDD with NVMe drives, especially the USB-C edit drive will make a real difference.

[Tolik12e3]

2 hours ago, FilipposTechGR said:

With that budget, the biggest upgrade you’ll notice for Premiere After Effects is moving to a more modern CPU + platform. Your 5820K is really showing its age, even with lots of RAM. A Ryzen 7 5800X3D or 13700K/12700K with a new board would give you a huge bump in both single-thread and multi-thread performance.

Also, your 950 Pro is old and nearly full  storage speed and free space matter a lot for video work. A 2TB NVMe Gen 3 or Gen 4 would help timeline scrubbing and caching feel way snappier.

The 2080 is still solid for GPU acceleration, so you can hold onto it for now. If you upgrade CPU + storage first, you’ll already see a massive difference in overall smoothness.