Jan said:
Edit: One thing that just came to my mind is your rendering/encoding process. Do you have a lossless intermediate of some kind and then encode using x264.exe? Or does all that happen within the Adobe software?
I render a UT Video lossless file from After Effects and then I just run the x264 script in command line.
Congrats to your new PC;-) What kind of specs does it have?
GIGABYTE GA-Z87-D3HP - Intel Z87
Kingston HyperX Beast 16GB (2x8GB) DDR3 2400 XMP
2x WD Red - 3TB