Paul... nvidia has updated their cards lineup with GTX 1080 and GTX 1070. They have better video decoder/encoder blocks even than the GTX960, especially for 4K editing, you might want to sell your three 970 (SLI is useless in PD) for one 1080...

https://www.amazon.com/s/ref=nb_sb_noss_2?url=search-alias%3Dcomputers&field-keywords=GTX+1080

https://www.amazon.com/s/ref=nb_sb_noss_2?url=search-alias%3Dcomputers&field-keywords=GTX+1070

Yes this is my Idea ....1080 is ordert !!! But I am in South Africa

The Link i was thinking on the Budget Guys !! Pauls PC
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That video is fit for Adobe software, that software cannot use the hardware encoding like our PD. For PD and a "limited" budget, GTX950 or GTX960 are the way to go.

And yeah, I know you have a serious budget for the "toys", that's why I mentioned it. BTW, you CPU was surpassed too by i7-6950X

YES With 71 I just like the future ..and having Time to Play was always the Dream when I started Filming in 1966.
Editing from 1968.....Non linear 1997 !!
And ..... so I don't Smoke sins 18 Year ....don't go to Bars ...was a Barman for 18 Years and Hotel Business for 45 Years
Love to be with my TOYs and my wife
Have Cancer from 2005 LOVE LIVE and My Hobby Editing.
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SoNic67
Hi Grumpy - I'm also thinking of a PC upgrade for 4K.
I see you have a Xeon675 plus a GTX960.
I like Paul's Wildebeest but want to get a cost effective solution without spending excessively on hardware which might only yield a small performance improvement.
What would you suggest from Intel's latest i7 range with 4,6, & 8 core cpus? Intel's latest HD (4K) integrated graphics is getting good press and of course has QuickSync. Has anybody tested it with PDR14 vs GTX gpus?
Do you think latest i7 K series 4 core cpu running at 4ghz would perform as well as your Xeon 6 core running at 3 ghz?
PDR14 does not seem to grab all available memory. How much would you suggest?
Thanks Al
(sent you a PM too)



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Guys Please we are going the Road of Petabyte

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ujg-N9gbehE

Next year 2017 we are having a Memory Card of 1 TB ,,,,,, I have a 1x 128 Gb from Europa

SPEED is the only word ....Next week I am going for a Gigabyte 1080 ...arriving ETA 25 July.

NEVER absolutely NEVER compromise bei 4k Editing Pauls PC
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Paul... never compromise - if you have the money

For Als: I think that the QuickSync hardware is the same over the whole Skylake/Broadwell generations, so the intel SIP core won't be an improvement over what a GTX960 SIP core has to offer today (in what is related to 4K encoding).
You can keep the present CPU and add a GTX1070 (same NVENC hardware as in GTX1080, improved speed compared to GTX960).

The video editing software scales well with the number of cores, unlike games (that are limited in the number of cores they can use). A lot of oppinions online about CPU performace are based on gaming needs (not more than 4 cores, higher frequency), so you have to filter those out.

And wait for the next true CPU upgrade: http://www.fool.com/investing/2016/06/09/why-did-intel-corporation-delay-this-gaming-proces.aspx