Revive my system for Resolve

Hi,
I have an HP Z800 workstation with duai Xeon X5650 processors and have replaced most of my drives with SSD drives, I have a Nvidia M2000 video card and have 24G ram. But my system still really struggle with Resolve especially it seem as I am using H264 footage from Panasonic GH5 and when using clips with different frame rates on the same timeline.
My question is What can I do to improve the performance of my system for Resolve, will a GTX1080 be better or more RAM or anything else someone can suggest??.

thanks in advance
Nick

You don't indicate the level of color grading, if any, in use -- your GPU is weak. particularly for 4K footage -- but you're likely to see the greatest immediate gain in performance by using Optimized Media or transcoding the GH5 footage before importing it into a Resolve project.

Poor playback of h.264 material has been covered in this forum many times. Do a search.

Hi John
Thanks for your reply, I do very little grading, actually using resolve mainly for editing. Even when using optimized media I still have trouble with smooth playback. I'll read up on h264


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High frames rate, like 60p, could also be source of system lag, even with optimize media. This may be improved with 14 (as is H.264 playback generally).

i have a z800 with 2x5690's, 96gig, 1 x gtx1080, 1125w power supply, mirrored SSD's for sys drive, SAS raid controler with 12 x 4Tb WDredPro's in the cage

it runs very well for HD/2k, struggles with UHD/4k but keeps up with some node cacheing

what power supply do you have? the 850w might be borderline with dual 1080's and dual 5690's..

i would probbaly look at a re-furbished z820v3, or z840 and build that up before i would build up your spec of z800 to match mine, my z820v3 with 2x 2680v2, 128 gig, 2x1080 blows past the z800 like it's standing still with UHD timelines, not as much diffrence with HD/2k tho, both are keeping up fine, the z820 has alot more headroom, but i rarely have a need to use that headroom in the real world

I have a z800 specced pretty much the same as yours, single ssd for windows and resolve + others
2x ssds raid0 and 2x 7200rpm HDDs raid 0, it worked ok with m2000, but just replaced with gtx1080ti and its made a huge difference.