Upgrade HP Laptop or build Cheap PC for basic video rendering?

[GoldenGamerUK]

i have a max budget of £300 to spend on a new pc, or i can spend a very small amount on upgrading my current laptop that I am writing this thread on, it is a hp pavilion g6 with a pentium B950 with 4GB of ram. Now, for litterally basic video editing and rendering, would it be worth upgrading the laptop to 8GB of ram and replacing the hard drive that is in the laptop with an SSD for miles faster storage, there will be no recording on this pc, not even any games being played as this will be on a console where all the game playing and recording will be done. Or is it worth spending £300 on a cheap pc to just render videos? and the pc that will be built will have basically equivilent specs to the laptop i am currently using. thank you in advance.

Oh before i forget, the programs being used on the laptop will be either Sony Vegas Pro 13 or adobe premiere Pro CC, along with Audacity and Google Chrome, thats litterally all the programs.

 

[davidarad02]

im afraid to tell you that the little pentium would probably be too weak for some real video editing and rendering...

 

[GoldenGamerUK]

well, what would be the minimum specs you would put in a PC to just make videos? like cheapest possible...

 

[davidarad02]

well, what would be the minimum specs you would put in a PC to just make videos? like cheapest possible...

probably something like this:
PCPartPicker part list / Price breakdown by merchant

CPU: Intel Core i3-6100 3.7GHz Dual-Core Processor (£96.99 @ Ebuyer)
Motherboard: MSI H110M Pro-VD Micro ATX LGA1151 Motherboard (£45.99 @ Ebuyer)
Memory: Corsair Vengeance LPX 8GB (1 x 8GB) DDR4-2400 Memory (£28.49 @ Ebuyer)
Storage: Sandisk SSD PLUS 240GB 2.5" Solid State Drive (£46.98 @ Novatech)
Case: Fractal Design Core 1000 MicroATX Mini Tower Case (£28.95 @ Amazon UK)
Power Supply: XFX XT 400W 80+ Bronze Certified ATX Power Supply (£37.86 @ More Computers)
Total: £285.26
Prices include shipping, taxes, and discounts when available
Generated by PCPartPicker 2016-03-19 18:33 GMT+0000

it doesn't have a HDD for more storage and it doesn't have a real GPU, but it should be enough.

if you are thinking about AMD, people have done tests and found that the i3 is still better then some AMD chips.

 

[GoldenGamerUK]

sorry for late reply, thank you for the list, I'll use it as a solid base to my first build, thank you, whenever I make a list trying to keep it cheap, it ends up going wayyy over budget and I give up with making a list.