spec me upgrade for video editing

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Hi there,

I have a AMD dual core opteron 165 @ 2.4 gig on an asus A8N-Sli with 2 gig DDR1 running at 217mhz (433mhz) with a ATI 3870 graphics card & 74 gig raptor on windows XP (32bit)

I use it for casual gaming and its ok.

Since we had our little girl we invested in a HD camcorder a Panasonic SD9 which is great and i am happy with it. However when it comes to editing the footage on the pc and burning footage onto DVD it is very sluggish.

I want to upgrade as cheap as possible and was looking at the following:

AMD Athlon II X4 Quad Core 620 2.60GHz
Asus M4A785D-M Pro AMD 785G
Corsair XMS2 2GB (1x2GB) DDR2 PC2-6400C5

Would this be enough? I am planning to oc a little. What about an Intel solution? Or a tri core Phenon with the full cache?

I am hoping to keep upgrade of motherboard, cpu and ram to around £200.

I think i will use pinnacle studio HD ultimate 14 my editing.

Would XP 64 bit make a difference? or Windows 7?

Thanks for your help

 

[95thrifles]

If you can stretch to 220 you can get double amount of RAM and DDR3

AMD Athlon II X4 Quad Core 620 2.60GHz (Socket AM3) - Retail £79.99 (£69.56)
OCZ Gold 4GB (2x2GB) DDR3 PC3-10666C9 Low-Voltage Dual Channel (OCZ3G1333LV4GK) £69.99 (£60.86)
Asus M4A785TD-M Evo AMD 785G (Socket AM3) PCI-Express DDR3 Motherboard £67.99 (£59.12)
Total : £217.97

And yeah Id go for w7 64 bit, if you can get hold of a copy of the RC you can use this for a bit yet

 

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ok thanks seems worth it