Upgrading my PC

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August 25, 2020
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Hi all!

I am wanting to upgrade my PC, currently, my PC has this in terms of hardware:

CPU: Intel Core i5 6600K @ 3.50GHz
RAM: 16.0GB

Graphic: NVIDIA GeForce GTX 970

I was thinking about updating the CPU to a Intel® Core™ i9-9900K and adding 16Gb of Ram. Do you reckon there is anything else I could do/ is this the right direction?

Many thanks

Arthur

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Richard M Knight

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You might well need some faster SSD storage if the 2Tb HDD is the only drive.

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RjL190365

Legend

Do note that you will need a new motherboard with a new chipset in order to use even an 8th-Gen CPU, let alone a 9th-Gen CPU such as your planned i9-9900K. That is because although the 9th-Gen CPUs use the same physical socket as your current 6th-Gen CPU, some of the electrical pin assignments are different between the two sockets. And if you do try to run that i9-9900K CPU on your existing motherboard, your system simply will not work at all. So keep that in mind.

And if you need to get a nrw motherboard for that 9th-gen anyways, then you'd be better off skipping that superceded 9th-gen CPU in favor of a new LGA 1200 motherboard with a Z490 chipset and get either an i7-10700K or an i9-10900K CPU. The i7-10700K has the same number of cores and threads as the i9-9900K with slightly higher clock speeds for barely any more money (after factoring in the cost of a new motherboard) than a typical i9-9900K/Z390 chipset motherboard combo.

Hope this helps.

Peru Bob

Community Expert

...and if you do all of that, you will want a different graphics card.

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RjL190365

Legend

Very true. Older Nvidia GPU architectures up to and including the recently discontinued (for desktop parts) Pascal architecture have not aged well at all in Premiere Pro.

With that said, Turing is being phased out of production in preparation for the new RTX 3000 series (Ampere architecture) GPUs. So right now is not a good time to purchase a new higher-end GPU. On the other hand, continuing to use the Maxwell-architecture GTX 970 for much longer is foolish, especially since it is a six-year-old GPU that effectively has only 3.5 GB of VRAM rather than the full 4 GB of VRAM as that particular part actually divided its memory controller into a 224-bit partition and a 32-bit partition. Plus, its support (and that of all remaining Maxwell GPUs) has two years remaining on its mainstream support life at most. Worse, it proved no faster or more powerful than a Pascal-architecture GTX 1060 6 GB card. Performance-wise, both the 970 and the 1060 fall well behind even a GeForce GTX 1650 Super (based on a tweaked Turing architecture), let alone an RTX 2070 Super that we generally recommend for this class of CPUs.