What should I upgrade first?

I'm thinking of upgrading something to improve my after effects rendering and realtime view-ability.  What would you suggest I upgrade first? my raid?  Get an arecca?  Or cpu?  Or something else?
specs:
gtx480
24gb ram
960 overclocked to 4.0
os drive - ssd
Raid 0 internal (4 drives) media drive
Raid 0 internal (2 drives) output drive
I'm also maxed out as far as space to store drives inside my case.  Any suggestions?  Where do you put all of your drives?
Thanks!
Adam

Never heard of a gtx480. Buy a new computer.
But even that won't make After Effects tangibly better unless your current mashine is more than four or five years old. After Effects is all about math, Teraflops may get the equations processed faster but the images still have to be recalled from drives, moved around, written out to various locations and then displayed. The physical movement of data is pretty much going at the speed of light now.

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