Spec me an upgrade for £500

[Goliath]

Guys -

I need to upgrade my PC as my current processor doesn't support SSE2 instruction sets, and I'm getting into video editing and Premiere Elements needs the SSE2 thing.

Basically I need a processor (AMD preferred), motherboard (not fussed), memory and a fairly decent graphics card (i'm guessing PCI express) - I don't play too many games so the absolute cutting edge isn't necessary, just beefy enough to handle Premiere without falling over. A decent (and hopefully quiet) cooler would be good too.

It must be stable needs to last the next three years, and i'm not fussed about overclocking it at all.

Price limit for everything is £500.

I'm currently running a couple of 512MB 266Mhz DDRs with an Athlon 2800 on an MSI K7N2 motherboard so if any of that can be reused it would be nice (memory?). If not, expect it to appear in the MM

Thanks in advance,

John.

 

[semi-pro waster]

This could be suitable, I don't think it is worth re-using your old Ram as while you can run A64s on a divider the price of Ram is so cheap right now that 2gb is worth it. I was going to try to fit an X2 into the budget but you will probably need a new PSU so that ruins that idea. You could go a for a slightly cheaper motherboard in the form of an Nforce4 ultra from Asus as well if you wanted but I was thinking matching ATI with ATI here.

MB-129-AS Asus A8R-MVP Crossfire (Socket 939) PCI-Express Motherboard (MB-129-AS)
£69.95 £69.95
MY-046-GL GeIL 2GB (2x1GB) PC3200 Value Dual Channel Kit CAS3 (GE2GB3200BDC) (MY-046-GL)
£99.95 £99.95
CP-121-AM AMD Athlon 64 3700+ San Diego 90nm (Socket 939) - Retail (ADA3700BNBOX) (CP-121-AM)
£137.95 £137.95
CA-026-EN Enermax Liberty 400W ELT400AWT ATX2.2 Modular SLI Compliant PSU (CA-026-EN)
£44.95 £44.95
GX-053-PC PowerColor ATI Radeon X800 GTO 128MB DDR TV-Out/DVI (PCI-Express) - Retail (GX-053-PC)
£74.95 £74.95
Subtotal £427.75
VAT £74.86
Total £502.61

 

[Naffa]

CP-150-AM AMD Athlon 64 3700+ San Diego 90nm (Socket 939) - OEM (CP-121-AM)
£124.95 £124.95
MB-101-AS Asus A8N-SLi SE nForce4 SLi (Socket 939) PCI-Express Motherboard (MB-101-AS)
£69.95 £69.95
MY-046-GL GeIL 2GB (2x1GB) PC3200 Value Dual Channel Kit CAS3 (GE2GB3200BDC) (MY-046-GL)
£99.95 £99.95
GX-056-XF XFX GeForce 6800 GS Extreme XXX Edition 256MB GDDR3 TV-Out/DVI (PCI-Express) - Retail (GX-056-XF)
£124.95 £124.95
CA-026-EN Enermax Liberty 400W ELT400AWT ATX2.2 Modular SLI Compliant PSU (CA-026-EN)
£44.95 £44.95
Subtotal £464.75
VAT £81.34
Total £546.09

Slightly over.. but i guess you could afford to drop the graphics down a bit if all youre using is Premiere..