I'm trying to see what route I should take for an editing rig

Hi guys here is a little backstory. I'm doing alot of editing on my rig with 4k footage from a gh4 camera. The problem I'm having is when I go into rendering inside of after effects and do motion graphics and special effects the rendering times are Super long with 4k. I have 16 gigs of ddr3 2400 vengence. And I have been using 32 gigs of 2400 vengence ram but I returned it in case I decided to build a whole new pc. But I'm going with the 32 gigs of rip jaw if I decide to keep my build. I have a sabertooth z87 socket 1150 with a 4770k cpu sometimes overclocked depending on what I'm doing to 3.9-3.8.

Okay now for my problem. I'm wondering if I should scrap this build and use it for only gaming and buy a Mac pro. Or make a skylake workstation like the one that Windel has shown in his latest video and wait for the skylake Xeon series cpus to build it later in the year with 2 cpus. And The last option I'm thinking about is creating a mac hacintosh on one of my spare ssds but I don't know if their will be a performance increase doing it that way.

What I want to know is if there is anyone out there that went from windows to a mac hacintosh and noticed a difference in performance for special effects.

Honestly , go dual xeon on windows.

When I have to render effects , those dual cpu's make a WORLD of difference as adobe will use them both at 100% when I preview effects. More cpu's is the way to go.

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I have not gone hackintosh but working in a Mac office for rendering do not expect to see any improvement from simply transitioning to Mac. Going to more powerful Xeon processors will help more than an OS Change will, also 32 gigs of ram is worthwhile to have, if the main goal of the system is rendering and not gaming then look at a Adobe Supported Workstation Graphics card as the main gain. Doing that though may not get you better than real time 4k renders 4k is just a lot of data to be written in general
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Yea rendering preview effects in 4k will still be a struggle , but dual xeons will do in in 1080 or 720

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Thanks you guys really have helped me with this decision. Luckily I work in I.T. and my team will help with the build. Plus I have you guys!

I also downscale to 1080p for almost all my projects except a select few. But I have tricks to help rendering 4k too.