Upgrade advice (Video Editing PC)

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Hi guys,

So I spec'ed a monster PC on OCUK for about 2.5k but a friend was selling this PC for a good price so decided to wait on the big spend for now and use this as a stop gap.

I am looking for a few upgrades and advice

Currently planning to max the ram at 32gb and look at a 250gb m2 for main storage and keep the SSD as an edit drive. But very much open to ideas.

I was also thinking about a second graphics card but not sure which one. I have been out of the PC world for a while.

Current spec:
RAM: 16GB HyperX DDR3 Ram
HD: Crucial CT250 250GB SSD
CPU: Intel i7 4790k
Case: Corsair
PSU: Corsair CX750M
Heat Sink: Corsair Hydro Series H75
GFX: GeForce GTX 970 Windforce
Motherboard: Gigabyte GA-Z97X-Gaming 5


Thank you for any help.

Alex :D
 
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Maxing out the RAM and adding an NVME drive (Samsung 960s are awesome) would be reasonable moves as you suggest - second graphics card, not so much...

970 should still be ok for 1080p 60hz gaming,

What do you do with the PC? And what res screen do you have?
 
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32GB RAM would be a good idea. Don't bother with another GPU for video editing, SLI performance isn't worth it.

You should look at small SSD for OS, small/mid size SSD for media cache and a 7200rpm drive for your footage (or another larger SSD if you have the wonga).
 
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32GB RAM would be a good idea. Don't bother with another GPU for video editing, SLI performance isn't worth it.

You should look at small SSD for OS, small/mid size SSD for media cache and a 7200rpm drive for your footage (or another larger SSD if you have the wonga).

Thanks is there a big difference splitting the 3 parts like that? Right now I have everything on the ssd fine for small projects OS, video files and cache.
 
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Single point of failure aside, it helps spread out writes to the SSD and you can get a faster one for the OS, and a slower one for cache.
 
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Depends on what you're editing really. I've given you an example of what I (as a video professional) do for video projects. At work we actually have the OS and Cache on the same drive but footage and project files centralised on a server and that works fine. For larger projects we're currently working off USB SSDs drives, they're excellent (Samsung T5 etc).
 
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