Not really wanting to spend $700 right now. I am going to use my rig for video editing and some minor gaming. I would like to be able to somewhat future proof it, if that is even possible with GPU's. I'm looking to find the best GPU for the price that can handle 4K.

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Posted by ILikeLSUToo

Central, LA

Member since Jan 2008

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Posted on 8/8/16 at 1:12 pm to Blake_Burns20

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like to be able to somewhat future proof it, if that is even possible with GPU's

Nope. 4K gaming for the latest games really calls for a $700 GPU, and it's still not quite caught up with the demands of AAA titles. If you're wanting to game at 4K for older titles, that can be accomplished with a GTX 1070 or Fury.

The best GPU now will be half the performance of the best GPU in 18 months, and the processing demand of some of the latest games may scale similarly. Really no such thing as future-proofing a PC for gaming. With video editing, though, you get what you need for the work you do and the software you use, and that shouldn't call for more unless you start dealing with even larger projects and/or change software.

What software do you use for video editing?

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Posted by DannyB

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Member since Aug 2010

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Posted on 8/9/16 at 12:09 am to Blake_Burns20

If it were me and I was going to be doing more video editing and processing/rendering than anything else I would go with a x99 board and a Haswell-E CPU over Skylake because of more cores especially if I was going to be focusing on 4k video; or are you only looking to game at 4k?

You can pick up a 5920K for about $385.00 on Amazon right now, which is 6 cores running at 3.3Ghz that you can easily overclock to about 4.2-4.5 Ghz. You're going spend more than $150.00 on a mother board also, though.

This post was edited on 8/9/16 at 12:20 am

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