Recent upgrade

[ssal]

About 5 years ago, I built a desktop for the purpose of editing my video. I'd just started videoing after years with still photography.
My initial built was moderate with a budget under $1,000 before the monitor. This was the component list:

AMD Ryzen 7 3800X Processor

ASRock B450M PRO4 Micro ATX AM4 Motherboard

Corsair Vengeance LPX 32 GB (2 x 16 GB) DDR4-3200 Memory

Seagate Barracuda 2 TB 3.5" 7200RPM Internal Hard Drive (x2)

HP EX920 1 TB M.2-2280 NVME Solid State Drive

Zotac GeForce GTX 1060 6GB 6 GB Video Card

COUGAR MX330 Mid-Tower Case

EVGA - 600W ATX 12V/EPS 12V 80 Plus Power Supply - Black

Extra cooling fans (x3)

LG Internal SATA 24x DVD CD +/-R & RW DL Disc Burner Re-Writer Drive OEM Bulk

TP-Link TL-WN881ND PCIe x1 802.11a/b/g/n Wi-Fi Adapter

Samsung 840 EVO 2.5" 1TB SATA SSD Hard Drive MZ-7TE1T0

The system worked well when I was shooting 1080. But shortly after, I advanced to 4K H.264 codec and the system became a bit sluggish when I scrub the video. I wanted to upgrade the system, but the price of GPU went nut during the pandemic. I tracked the price in the past two years and the prices had finally came down.
Recently, I was able to get a brand new Ryzen 9 5950x for $320, and a RTX 4060 8gb for $310. I had to add a Noctua Cooler for $90 as well.
I sold the old GPU and CPU for around $200 and netted $160. So the net cost of my upgrade is around $550.
I finally have a system that is a joy to play with.

I'd like to hear your comments on my move.

 

[ssal]

A follow up . . .

After the upgrade, scrubbing video in Premiere Pro, particularly backward, is still sluggish. I come to conclude that 4K H.264 video requires even a faster CPU. Unfortunately, the Ryzen 9 5950x is the most powerful one for my AM4 motherboard. To go to the newer 9 7900x would require the change of MBO and upgrade to DDR5 6000 mhz RAM. I am not ready to take my desktop to that level, money wise.

The Dell G15 with i9-13900HX and RTX 4060 performs a lot better although the backward scrub is not as smooth as forward. I think the iGPU which enables the QuickSync technology is helping.

Back to the desktop, I am adapting to proxy edit which I have long avoided. But the process of upgrading and watch numerous youTube videos, including those from Puget, have convinced me that 4K H.264 is a real tough nut to crack. I guess I had succumbed to the reality. Adding the proxy conversion would require quite a bit of time with a large project.