X2 4400 or Opteron 170

[Sirrel Squirrel]

I'm thinking about splashing out on some new PC bits, mainly a processor, motherboard and gfx card, the computer will be from video editing, video encoding and on and off gaming, I'm just wondering if I'm better off going with an X2 4400 or an Opteron 170 and then overclock it, I already have 2gb of OCZ PC3200 ram so that should give me some room to overclock with hopefully. What would you suggest in my situation?

What motherboard would you guys also recommend for these chips, still a bit undecided about the gfx card but it'll either be a 7900gt or x1900

 

[Sirrel Squirrel]

Well you can edit with any gfx card, gfx card will mainly be for the gaming side of things, tempted by the x1900 because I've got an x800 at the moment and it's really good.

edit/ although I think I heard the x1900 can be used for encoding, is that right?

 

[Sirrel Squirrel]

Thanks for the replies, think I'll just see what's cheapest when I come to buy, probably won't be buying it for another month or so, depending on how my money goes.