A bit of help required please...
Thinking about purchasing a GoPro HD helmet camera (as an upgrade to the one I currently have) for mountain biking as well as snowboarding. One of my mates already has one and I borrowed the footage (big big files circa 100megs a minute) which I then struggled to play on my pc. If I buy the camera its likely I will need to upgrade my system which is currently spec'ed as;
Case: Black Thermaltake Shark VA7000BWA Case
PSU: Akasa Ultra Quiet 460W Paxpower ATX2.0 PSU
Motherboard: ASUS P5Q - LGA775 SOCKET FOR INTEL - P45 CHIPSET - ATX
Processor: Intel Core 2 Duo Processor E8500, LGA775 Pkg 3.16GHz, 6MB L2 cache, 1333MHz FSB, 45nm
Ram: 2 x 2GB Geil DDR II DIMM PC6400 800MHz CAS 5
Graphics Card: Asus EAH4850 512MB DDR3 PCI-E
Soundcard: Soundblaster Audigy 7.1
Hard Drive 1: Western Digital Caviar Special Edition 250GB 2500KS SATA-II 16MB Cache in Silentmaxx Aluminium Enclosure (C: MASTER 250GB)
Hard Drives+: Western Digital Caviar 200GB (2000JB) Special Edition 8MB Cache (E: DOWNLOADS)
Maxtor 200gb hard drive (F: FORMATTED)
DVDRW:
Floppy Disk: Black Floppy Disk Drive
TV Card: Leadtek WinFast TV 2000 XP Expert Edition
Monitor: Samsung SyncMaster P2450
Keyboard: Microsoft Wireless Optical Desktop Multimedia
Mouse: Logitech MX518 Gaming-Grade Optical Mouse
Speakers: Creative Inspire 5.1 T5900 Speakers
I was thinking of upgrading the motherboard/cpu/ram but I wonder if something else may be presenting a bottleneck, hard drive or graphics card? Anyone got any particular views on what I should really be upgrading to get decent performance or does it require pretty much a new system? Aside of playing the HD videos I'd like to edit them ideally not wasting my life watching them render!
ps currently running windows 7 home premium.
cheers
iain
Thinking about purchasing a GoPro HD helmet camera (as an upgrade to the one I currently have) for mountain biking as well as snowboarding. One of my mates already has one and I borrowed the footage (big big files circa 100megs a minute) which I then struggled to play on my pc. If I buy the camera its likely I will need to upgrade my system which is currently spec'ed as;
Case: Black Thermaltake Shark VA7000BWA Case
PSU: Akasa Ultra Quiet 460W Paxpower ATX2.0 PSU
Motherboard: ASUS P5Q - LGA775 SOCKET FOR INTEL - P45 CHIPSET - ATX
Processor: Intel Core 2 Duo Processor E8500, LGA775 Pkg 3.16GHz, 6MB L2 cache, 1333MHz FSB, 45nm
Ram: 2 x 2GB Geil DDR II DIMM PC6400 800MHz CAS 5
Graphics Card: Asus EAH4850 512MB DDR3 PCI-E
Soundcard: Soundblaster Audigy 7.1
Hard Drive 1: Western Digital Caviar Special Edition 250GB 2500KS SATA-II 16MB Cache in Silentmaxx Aluminium Enclosure (C: MASTER 250GB)
Hard Drives+: Western Digital Caviar 200GB (2000JB) Special Edition 8MB Cache (E: DOWNLOADS)
Maxtor 200gb hard drive (F: FORMATTED)
DVDRW:
Floppy Disk: Black Floppy Disk Drive
TV Card: Leadtek WinFast TV 2000 XP Expert Edition
Monitor: Samsung SyncMaster P2450
Keyboard: Microsoft Wireless Optical Desktop Multimedia
Mouse: Logitech MX518 Gaming-Grade Optical Mouse
Speakers: Creative Inspire 5.1 T5900 Speakers
I was thinking of upgrading the motherboard/cpu/ram but I wonder if something else may be presenting a bottleneck, hard drive or graphics card? Anyone got any particular views on what I should really be upgrading to get decent performance or does it require pretty much a new system? Aside of playing the HD videos I'd like to edit them ideally not wasting my life watching them render!
ps currently running windows 7 home premium.
cheers
iain