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New to video editing (HD "GoPro" type stuff).....need CPU / System advice

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July 28, 2014 8:34:47 PM

First off, I'm a newb...and not a pro.

What I'm trying to do: Basic video editing. Nothing too heavy....just editing of the video capture with my gopro in 1080.

What I have now: couple laptops which are totally inadequate. I also have a desktop that I built, which is about 5 years old (or more). I think I have an Intel dual core 2.4ghz processor, 32 bit. Basically, it just doesn't seem to be able to handle HD video editing.

What I'm looking at: To save $$$, I'd like to (if possible) just swap out the old motherboard and CPU but keep everything else (except I'd also upgrade the OS). A guy is looking to sell me a motherboard/RAM/CPU combo. It's older too (4 years?)...but seems like more than enough to do what I want. I'm not a professional video editor....I'm just putting stuff on youtube. Here's what they guy is selling....for $100.00 :

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Intel E8400 CPU 3Ghz 6MB Cache, ASUS Maximus Formula, 8GB RAM

Selling this Motherboard, CPU, and RAM as a bundle. I upgraded a few months back and this setup is great for gaming. Handled League of Legends, Skyrim, Dota 2, even played some Thief on it.

I will ignore lowballers, this price is extremely low for the bundle.

* Intel E8400 CPU
* Board- ASUS Maximus Formula
* 4GB of G.Skill and 4GB of Kingston RAM
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Thoughts? Thanks much!!

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July 28, 2014 9:10:37 PM

In my opinion, you'd be putting that $100 into too old of hardware to gain much more useful life of a computer system. You'd need to upgrade again in a year. And you may still not be happy with it now.

If you can afford more, a $60 current model mobo, a $120 cpu, and some DDR3 ram (if yours is DDR2) would be a very solid upgrade.
So you'd be looking at around $220 if you went with an i3 4150 or FX6300, and a decent budget mobo (1150 intel socket or amd AM3+) and 4 Gb of good memory (could add another matching 4gb stick when affordable).

Overall, I think it would be a much much better investment, and worlds better performance.
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July 29, 2014 10:43:04 AM

For video editing, that is one of the few cases where you want a FAST CPU and a decent video card that support hardware acceleration for video programs to be happy with the system.

Unless you are going to go to AT LEAST a fast quad core like a Q9450, 9550 or 9650 it's not worth upgrading from what you have. That E8400 CPU is a nice CPU, but not much of an upgrade over a 2.4 gig. If your system can take one of the Q series I mentioned, you may be better off spending that money on the CPU and just plop it into your system if all you can spend is $100. And 8 gig of RAM is a good start for video editing also, 4 is probably the absolute minimum you'd want. Also look for software and a video card that will work with rendering, it can make a big difference.
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