I currently have a P5B deluxe with a Core 2 Duo (6600) and an ATI 1950PRO graphics card. The system was put together a little over 2 years ago and is suitable for almost all my applications with one exception....it chokes on AVCHD video.
I would love to upgrade to an i7, but that means spending more money than I want (in addition to the CPU, I would need new RAM & a new Motherboard). My goals on the upgrade are to spend as little as possible, while getting enough extra horsepower to handle AVCHD rendering/conversion/editing.
Here is what I am currently thinking
- Upgrade the CPU to a quad core 9550…I should be able to over clock this to some degree (I know a more recent motherboard would allow more overclock and better options, but I am trying to keep costs minimal)
- Graphics card…I have no idea on this, but I am pretty certain I will need to upgrade in order to get smooth playback. The PB5 deluxe has PCI-E v1. I believe that the PCI V2 cards are backwards compatible. What budget card would be recommended….I am preferential to ATI, but could do an nvidia card. Was looking at perhaps: MSI R4670-2D512/D3 Radeon HD 4670 512MB 128-bit for about $50 after rebate.
- Memory – I currently have 2GB of DDR2 6400 Corsair XMS (1GB sticks). It doesn’t overclock all that well…at 2.15 volts, I get 833 stable. A couple of questions 1) How much of a performance hit will I take by having the CPU and FSB at different speeds? 2) Does adding more memory even make sense while running 32bit Windows XP? I have heard many people say that adding more than 2GBs in an XP environment is pointless.
Thanks in advance for any input.
I would love to upgrade to an i7, but that means spending more money than I want (in addition to the CPU, I would need new RAM & a new Motherboard). My goals on the upgrade are to spend as little as possible, while getting enough extra horsepower to handle AVCHD rendering/conversion/editing.
Here is what I am currently thinking
- Upgrade the CPU to a quad core 9550…I should be able to over clock this to some degree (I know a more recent motherboard would allow more overclock and better options, but I am trying to keep costs minimal)
- Graphics card…I have no idea on this, but I am pretty certain I will need to upgrade in order to get smooth playback. The PB5 deluxe has PCI-E v1. I believe that the PCI V2 cards are backwards compatible. What budget card would be recommended….I am preferential to ATI, but could do an nvidia card. Was looking at perhaps: MSI R4670-2D512/D3 Radeon HD 4670 512MB 128-bit for about $50 after rebate.
- Memory – I currently have 2GB of DDR2 6400 Corsair XMS (1GB sticks). It doesn’t overclock all that well…at 2.15 volts, I get 833 stable. A couple of questions 1) How much of a performance hit will I take by having the CPU and FSB at different speeds? 2) Does adding more memory even make sense while running 32bit Windows XP? I have heard many people say that adding more than 2GBs in an XP environment is pointless.
Thanks in advance for any input.
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