I read though the forum, they mention the software using around 8 cores at most which is convenient since as I mentioned I own an 8 core CPU which has a boost clock of 4.6GHZ, my hard drive may seem to be an issue because everyone is apparently using an SSD or M.2 drive (I might consider getting one). another thing they mention is that CPU encoding can sometimes be better than some GPU encoding for exports, however exporting time is not my issue it is more about maintaining a stutter-less preview (hopefully without having to use any preview scaling) especially since I work with lots of filters such as size position rotate, keyframes, chroma key tools, colour grading and some other heavy workloads such as blur, crop and vignette. people have mentioned using a good graphics card such as an RTX 2070 which may fix the issue since I only own a Mid - Low range 1650 Super. Should I consider getting a GPU like an RTX 3060 TI (which has similar performance to the RTX 2070) Or even a Radeon Card such as the RX 6750 XT (I’m leaning more towards the 6750 XT because it has more VRAM and I will be able to use Smart Access Memory in games although the encoder may affect performance).