I don't touch chinese retailers, personally. Never bothered with Alibaba, Taobao, none of them. I'll stick with the typical US-based places for purchases, and if I find a Chinese seller that can get me parts within 2 week window or 100% money back, I'm not interested. I may take my time upgrading the GPU, but memory is a need as of last year with this tower. In fact, I just was able to play around with FCPX last night with 16GB, and it acted like my previous work was nothing in comparison to running with 12GB. Since that memory isn't mine, I was simply testing things out; however, it was genuinely a world of difference for what I'm doing. I also noticed it was balancing the load better (which I think many ignore/discredit). If I have to write off $100 as a business expense to get my tower that stable, then so be it lol. Especially if it means avoiding Chinese mail (which I've never had anything come from China faster than 1 month, no matter what it was or what the delivery promise was).
Then again, if someone has some extra memory they'd like to sell below eBay pricing, I'm listening! Same goes for the CPU upgrade, but I doubt anyone is going to have those handy haha.
I guess for my SSDs I'll just swap my original idea lol. 2.5" SSD array for OS, and M.2 down the road in a PCIe slot for fast storage. I won't complain about that. I may not need the crazy fast speeds with PCIe storage, but with transferring large files I'd like to avoid down time or pushing my transfers to the background while I edit. I've had too many bad experiences in the past where files didn't transfer properly (for a number of reasons), and I also would like to be able to dump data while someone waits (I know, a tall order with large files, but I am that kind of person with customer service lol). I also will be doing a lot of smaller work in my downtime for practice, and if I can dump an entire SD card onto my computer while the owner waits.... I think that's as good as it gets. I like those personal touches. This also wouldn't my first time doing business with that level of accommodation, so anything that takes a while will feel like an eternity for me... and it will only make me look even more average to clients, which I like to avoid
That all aside, it sounds like I might go for the RX 560 to start with! Much thanks for the info and SS, mate. It's also nice to know that 4K editing should be manageable with the 560, as I'm sure I will be handling plenty of 4k files.
This has really been a huge help. Endless thanks from me. I owe you a beer!
Location make the big difference. I am in Hong Kong. Taobao usually is the cheapest, fastest, easiest way for me to acquire such items. But I totally agree that it won't work that well for western country.
