Hi All!
My university department has a brand new HP Z440 tower. We would like to start doing small to medium scale processing of UAV images. Typically what we can get from a 3DR Iris+ mission. I have a budget of about $600 to upgrade the machine. Here's what I'm thinking....

Current specs are:
W7 64bit pro
Intel® Xeon® E5-1620 v3 (3.5 GHz, 10 MB cache, 4 cores, Intel® vPro™)
8 GB 2133 MHz DDR4 ECC Registered RAM (1 x 8 GB)
Nvidia Quatro NVS 925 Graphics
700w PSU
1 tb 7200 rpm HDD
I would like to add:
Nvidia 970 GPU $350 ish from Newegg.com
1 x 16bg ram + 1 x 8gb ram = 24 gigs ram (bring the total to 32GB) $250 ish from Newegg.com
Any thoughts or suggestions would be highly appreciated!
http://www8.hp.com/us/en/products/monitors/product-detail.html?oid=7488466#!tab=specsEDIT: Typo fixed.