Editing Video laggy-What Video Card?

itakey

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What is a reasonable video card to edit GoPro footage of my family vacations? I was filming in 4K but I immediately dropped it down to 2.7K because I knew playback and editing would be a problem and i'm fine with 2.7K quality. I can stream in VLC for the most part, but if I try to stream and edit in GoPro Quik or Adobe Premiere it is very laggy.

Here are the specs of my machine.
-Intel HD3000 Integrated graphics (Yes, guessing this is the bottleneck)
-Intel i7-2700K CPU
-SSD Hard Drive
-32GB RAM

Is there a video card I can buy to help stream video better and make it less choppy? Any cards in the sub $100 range work for me so I can do some editing? Or is it simply time to upgrade/rebuild the entire machine if I want to do video editing?