What upgrades should I get ?

[Kunaal23]

I am looking to upgrade my rig under a budget. I want it to be powerful enough to edit 1080p footage at a 720p preview in premier pro.

I want to get a GTX 1050 and I am confused among my options. Should I get a GTX 1050 ti or 1060 or an normal 1050.

Should I get a SSD too ?

My current specs are :-

FX 4100

10 gigs of DDR3 ram

M5A78L-M LX V2

400 watts smps 

The onboard AMD 760G

500 gb HDD

[NelizMastr]

A GPU won't help you much with that abysmally slow CPU. If you want to edit and render 1080p footage somewhat quickly, you're better off upgrading your motherboard, CPU and RAM to a newer platform.

 

What's your total budget for upgrades? 

[kb5zue]

For starters you're going to have to start dreaming a little bigger.  You said "under a budget", but you didn't say how much of a budget because if you want to edit 1080p in Premier Pro you're going to need more than just a few dollars.  No offense but what you are running now would be considered an antique.

[Kunaal23]

Just upgrade my ram from 4 to 10 gigs. My budget is 250$. I really new a new gpu as I can't even use photoshop properly.

 

[Kunaal23]

Yeah it is an antique.

[NelizMastr]

Premiere doesn't do much with a GPU, not enough that it'll be of much use to you as I highly doubt you work with lots of different effects and color correction with this setup.

 

For that budget, there is no real way to go new, so you'll have to start hunting for used parts. A motherboard and CPU should be doable. I'd say go for an i7-3770 and pair it with a B75 or H77 board. The 3770 non-K can be found for the equivalent of about $150 and boards are in the $50-70 range for B and H stuff. Haswell or newer is out of the question since you can't get an 8-threaded CPU for that kind of cash including a board. For $300, you could get a 4770 and a B85/H87/H97 board though. With these options, you can keep your memory.

[Kunaal23]

What about a xeon ?

[NelizMastr]

6 minutes ago, Kunaal23 said:

What about a xeon ?

A lot of Xeon E3 chips don't have integrated graphics. The one I'd recommend, the 1245v3 does but it costs $200 on eBay. They cost about the same as their i7 counterparts. Depends on what you can find in terms of local deals.

 

Another route is (a bit tricky) socket 1366. You can get a 6-core + mobo within budget, but again, no integrated graphics, so you need to buy a GPU as well.

[NelizMastr]

Some options:

 

Socket 1155:

https://www.aliexpress.com/item/Free-shipping-original-motherboard-for-gigabyte-GA-Z77P-D3-LGA-1155-DDR3-Z77P-D3-boards-32GB/32704123995.html (~5000 rupees, $78)

https://www.aliexpress.com/item/Intel-Xeon-Quad-Core-Processor-E3-1270-E3-1270-3-4GHz-8MB-LGA-1155-CPU-LGA/32832574504.html (~8000 rupees, $117)

Total is $200 ish, 13000 rupees.

 

Socket 1366:

https://www.aliexpress.com/item/ASUS-P6T-SE-1366-pin-X58-motherboard-support-X5650-5670-w3690-can-be-overclocked/32849960331.html (10.500 rupees, $156)

https://www.aliexpress.com/item/INTEL-xeon-X5660-INTEL-X5660-CPU-SLBV3-Processor-2-8GHz-LGA1366-SCOKET-1366-server-CPU-P/32794072623.html (3100 rupees, $46)

Total also $200 ish, and 13000 rupees. This option has 2 more cores and 4 more threads, but lower IPC and it needs a GPU to work. Can be overclocked well, unlike the E3 Xeon mentioned above.

 

Something like this would do nicely: 

 

https://www.aliexpress.com/item/ASUS-Video-Card-Original-GTX-750-1GB-128Bit-GDDR5-Graphics-Cards-for-nVIDIA-Geforce-GTX750-Hdmi/32848728177.html (3300 rupees, $50)

 

Edit: you'll also need to buy a CPU cooler by the way.

[Kunaal23]

Anything possible if i don't want to change my mother board right now ?

[NelizMastr]

1 hour ago, Kunaal23 said:

Anything possible if i don't want to change my mother board right now ?

Not really. The best you can do without making your board burst into flames is go to the FX6300. It's a poor quality board in terms of power delivery. 

[i_build_nanosuits]

1 hour ago, Kunaal23 said:

Anything possible if i don't want to change my mother board right now ?

FX-6300 if you can find one for real cheap (used...) is a decent upgrade escpecially in regards to your use case...i would not overclock it on this motherboard...i would try to manually reduce it's core voltage if possible without making it unstable...and i would get a GTX 1050 GPU.