GPU or CPU upgrade?

[RollinLower]

Ello again!

 

So a little while ago i build my brother a itx office pc as a surprise. he's been using it happily ever since, eventhough it really is not powerfull. it sports a celeron 1820 and a H81mobo, 120GB SSD and 8GB dominator platinums i had laying around (lol)

 

Anyway, recently he got into editing vodeos, and as you can imagine the current system is just not cutting it. his budget is pretty much non existend, so we have to choose: get a better CPU, or a dedicated GPU.

 

Now my question; what would be better for him? he edits in adobe premiere pro mostly. would a good Nvidea GPU help him because of CUDA?

 

Any help is appreciated!

 

P.S. if this is in the wrong subforum, i apologize.

 

 

[tarfeef101]

3 minutes ago, huilun02 said:

Get a 4770/4790 (latter preferred)

I'd say an i5 or i7 from haswell or later is probably a good first step, then perhaps a GPU for acceleration, and after that if you want to go further a fancy CPU. Seems like the most logical progression to me

 

[TheRandomness]

4 minutes ago, huilun02 said:

Get a 4770/4790 (latter preferred)

Or a Xeon E3-1231 v3, which is a 4770 without the thermal issues, binned and cheaper?

[TheRandomness]

Just now, huilun02 said:

And no iGPU too.

Me. GT 740?  Or a GTX 1050. Or a GTX x70 used.

[martward]

8 minutes ago, TheRandomness said:

Me. GT 740?  Or a GTX 1050. Or a GTX x70 used.

A Xeon and a GPU will not fit in a non existent budget I think.

 

I'd say upgrade the CPU first, I would get a second hand i5 and probably one that can't be overclocked. Reason is that an overclockable CPU has probably been overclocked and if the previous owner didn't know how to do that very well it might've hurt the durability of the CPU.

[RollinLower]

7 hours ago, martward said:

A Xeon and a GPU will not fit in a non existent budget I think.

 

I'd say upgrade the CPU first, I would get a second hand i5 and probably one that can't be overclocked. Reason is that an overclockable CPU has probably been overclocked and if the previous owner didn't know how to do that very well it might've hurt the durability of the CPU.

Alright, so we'll upgrade the CPU first then! i can imagine pairing a dedicated GPU with the celeron could potentially introduce some bottlenecks also.

Thanks for the help people!