Spec me up for HDV editing?

[wsurfa]

Finally decided to upgrade the existing X2 3800 with the main aim being a fair amount of photoshop and premiere work. Video will be HDV, so quite a memory and cpu basher.

I've got the case, a hyper580psu and monitor already. So stuff needed cpu, m'board, memory, GPU, hard drives, cooler.

I'm assuming quad core and pretty flex on £, but if it looks to go above c£5/600 then I might give thought to going completely mad and buying a mac pro (as I should be able to source PS and Final Cut relatively cheaply).

I'd also want it to be pretty quiet, and would OC it.

Thanks for any help

 

[wsurfa]

thanks - looks good. I'll need to procrastinate a while as the mac pro option is also looking quite attractive (although c 3x the price !)

 

[wsurfa]

Get rid of that Hiper 580W PSU.

fair enough if i'm spending £500+ i'll drop the old psu. Corsair 620?