Don't think I haven't considered an ssd, but in the end I decided against it, because ssds have very limited rewrite capacity, so for the kind of work I do, an ssd couldn't really be used and my friend has one and showed me how fast his compiter boots and it really isn't enough of an improvement over a normal hdd for it to be worth for me buying a 256GB ssd instead of a 3TB hdd (more or less the same price range and still much faster than my current setup, of one laptop hdd, which is slow as far as internal hdds go, one usb3 hdd, and 3 usb 2s, two of which are very old and therefore unreliable, which means, I'll also need the capacity to back up the data from them).

As to the gpu, this cpu has a powerful enough gpu integrated for what I need and most video editing programs don't use gpu at all or to a very limited capacity and I don't really play games, so it would be a very large, and ultimatelly unnecesary, extra investment to buy a dedicated gpu noticeably more powerful than the one integrated in this cpu.

And as to dropping half the ram in favor of anything else, that is out of the question - large and fast ram is absolutelly esential for advanced video editing.

I'm by no means knocking what you guys are saying and I asked for your opinions and I'm grateful for them, but just know that I really thought this through. It would be nice to add more things but even as it is now I exceeded my original budget quite a bit, so I have to go with what I'll have the most use for.