Best Motherboard CPU Combo for Video Edit?

[linehand]

My old Asus A7v266-e w/xp1800,512 DDR, is getting a little long in the tooth, so I'm looking to do a little upgrade. I realy don't know which way to go to get the "best bang for a buck" around $500 or so is all I want to spend. My primary goal is a machine for video and audio editing, surfing the web, and office apps. Very little (if any) games. I thought about the Asus P4S800D-E Deluxe, but it seems to be a "vapor-ware, or non-existant board.I haven't heard of anyone in the "REAL" world having one for sale. Also I assume my existing ram would be too slow,etc....... I haven't heard how the AMD 64 stacks up with the P4 when it comes to rendering large mpeg files.SO........... I am looking for ideas for Motherboard, CPU, & ram.
Any Ideas of which way to go would be appreaciated!
Thanks,
linehand

 

[ntrights]

Get a P4c 800Mhz Hyper Threading enabled processor. P4 is best at video/audio editing and encoding
Operating System - WinXP (supports HT fully can distinguish between physical and logical processors)
Motherboard - P4P800 or P4C800-E Deluxe you cant really go wrong with any of the i865pe/i875p chipset boards. Bios updates should make most of them Prescott ready (double check to make sure..)

 

[jose]

P4-2.4c (800) $164
Asus P4P800 dlx $108
spend the rest on memory 1 gig pc3200 ddr $250

Regards,
Jose

 

[linehand]

Thanks!
I ordered a 2.6-800 P4 CPU and an Asus P4800 Motherboard. Now.................... the system Memory.
If I understand correctly my existing 2 sticks of Crucial 256DDR (it's only 200mhz or maybe 266mhz mem) probably won't even power up this CPU/MB combo? So................. am I better off to go for a pair of 512meg pc32oo Kingston cl3 or Geil cl2.5 "value memory" or go for a pair of pc3500 Hyperx or Corsair, etc. cl2 memory? that is 1 gig "value" vs 512 "performance"? Which way will be better for rendering large mpeg files? I am looking mostly for "stability" but.......... might try a bit of overclocking, IF I can keep it Stable. I'm sure there is a trade off in here somewhere.
Any opinions?
Thanks,
linehand