PC upgrade

GJS1

GJS1

GJS1

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Hi, I was intending building a new system until I spent a large amount of money on a new DSLR camera and a £5000.00 trip to Africa.
Theh current computer I have has a Q6600 @2.4ghz (stock board so it's not overclockable) and really seems to struggle with doing video and photos. It has a PCI X16 express lane (i think it's 1.0 as it doesn't say otherwise), I was wanting to get a GPU to try and take some of the pressure off the CPU when I'm dealing with photos. What I'm thinking is either a gtx 460 or 470.
A. will this be bottle necked in a 1.0?
B. Is it just the system being generally slow or could this help out?

thanks
 
ok the spec is:
640GB 7.2K RPM. It's partitioned and brand is WD. I'm not sure of the cache size...
Ram is 4GB of DDR2 @677MHZ (slow I know) and I can't add more because it's on a 32 bit OS
All the graphics processing power is an onboard Nvidia 7100 chipset.

Ideally I was going tobuild a PC for gaming as I'm fed up of my console, I spend much of my time reading articals about 4GHZ hyperthreaded i7s and it makes me seem as though I'm lagging behind.
Without gaming in mind I will want to edit photos in Gimp (maby photoshop in a few months time) and edit and render 1080p videos.

WC is next summer (but thanks for asking) and that's why I can't really spend money on a new system over the next year because I'm paying for that. i got the camera because I'm off to NY in a few weeks.
 
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