My wife's DELL Dimension 8200 finally died. She does a lot of video editing using Adobe Premiere on WinXP Pro. I keep reading that Intel still leads when it comes to rendering but am not sure how the far from top of the line processors stack up. I am tyrying to put together a replacement system for her, for around $500. She will keep her AGP x8 video card and a PCI Video Capture card, but everything else will be scrapped. These are the two sytems I am looking at:
AMD
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GIGABYTE GA-K8NS Ultra-939 Socket 939 NVIDIA nForce3 Ultra $106.00
AMD Athlon 64 3000+ Winchester Model ADA3000BIBOX $146.00
GeIL Value 1GB (2 x 512MB) 184-Pin DDR SDRAM DDR 400 Dual Channel $82.44
2 Western Digital Caviar SE WD800JD 80GB 7200 RPM Serial ATA150 Hard Drives $112.00
Antec SmartPower 2.0 SP-400 ATX12V 400W Power Supply $59.00
TOTAL: $505.44
OR
INTEL
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ASUS P4P800SE Socket 478 Intel 865PE ATX Intel Motherboard $94.00
Intel Pentium 4 3.0E Prescott 800MHz FSB Socket 478 Processor $193.99
GeIL Value 1GB (2 x 512MB) 184-Pin DDR SDRAM DDR 400 Dual Channel $82.44
2 Western Digital Caviar SE WD800JD 80GB 7200 RPM Serial ATA150 Hard Drives $112.00
Antec SmartPower 2.0 SP-400 ATX12V 400W Power Supply $59.00
TOTAL: $541.43
Any clues as to which system would be a better video editing machine? Upgradeability isn't all that important as in 3 years we'll probably be making the move to PCI express and dual core processors...
AMD
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GIGABYTE GA-K8NS Ultra-939 Socket 939 NVIDIA nForce3 Ultra $106.00
AMD Athlon 64 3000+ Winchester Model ADA3000BIBOX $146.00
GeIL Value 1GB (2 x 512MB) 184-Pin DDR SDRAM DDR 400 Dual Channel $82.44
2 Western Digital Caviar SE WD800JD 80GB 7200 RPM Serial ATA150 Hard Drives $112.00
Antec SmartPower 2.0 SP-400 ATX12V 400W Power Supply $59.00
TOTAL: $505.44
OR
INTEL
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ASUS P4P800SE Socket 478 Intel 865PE ATX Intel Motherboard $94.00
Intel Pentium 4 3.0E Prescott 800MHz FSB Socket 478 Processor $193.99
GeIL Value 1GB (2 x 512MB) 184-Pin DDR SDRAM DDR 400 Dual Channel $82.44
2 Western Digital Caviar SE WD800JD 80GB 7200 RPM Serial ATA150 Hard Drives $112.00
Antec SmartPower 2.0 SP-400 ATX12V 400W Power Supply $59.00
TOTAL: $541.43
Any clues as to which system would be a better video editing machine? Upgradeability isn't all that important as in 3 years we'll probably be making the move to PCI express and dual core processors...
