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My system is mostly an Asus CM1745 (Quad Core AMD A8-Series APU A8-5500 3.20GHz (3.70Ghz Turbo), 8GB DDR3 RAM, EVGA NVIDIA GeForce GTX 750 Ti 2GB GDDR5, pair of Hybrid 2TB Segate HD's and a 750 watt power supply.
I have been using PowerDirector 11 to edit video and have recently run into a slowing issue. I can put 2 videos in a timeline, but the system chokes when I try a third. So I'm wondering if 16GB of ram would fix this issue, or do I need more than that? And what is some reasonable DDR3 ram to look out for?
Thanks for any info.
 
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As far as the Windows license goes, your system should have an OEM sticker on it somewhere with the product key on it (looks like it came with Windows 8). Usually MS will let you reuse that key if you upgrade your hardware, but you have to call MS to re-activate that key after installing on the new hardware (just say your motherboard...
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Open the Task Manager and see what your memory usage is when you open that 3'rd video file. Depending on the size of the video files you are editing, is very possible that you are running out of available RAM. But your CPU is also going to be a bottleneck when doing that much simultaneously.
 
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Looks like the CPU runs between 70 and 100%, while memory is between 78 and 81%(6.5gb) when I'm trying to view one of the clips at a time. Let's say I do go with a new mobo/chip setup.. How do I overcome the windows key being stored in this bios and installing it on a new system? And how do you calculate what is an acceptable system for processing video without digging into the bank account too far?
 
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As far as the Windows license goes, your system should have an OEM sticker on it somewhere with the product key on it (looks like it came with Windows 8). Usually MS will let you reuse that key if you upgrade your hardware, but you have to call MS to re-activate that key after installing on the new hardware (just say your motherboard died and you had to replace it). If you already upgraded to Windows 10 then you'll need to buy another Windows key (MS won't allow hardware upgrades on a Windows 10 free upgrade). But if you didn't upgrade to Windows 10 yet, then you could re-activate Windows 8 on the new hardware, upgrade to Windows 10, and then do a fresh clean install of Windows 10 once the new hardware is registered on MS servers as activated for Windows 10 (you HAVE to go through the upgrade first though).

If your doing video editing you should really consider upgrading to Intel i7 based components, AMD CPU's just don't have the same raw processing power. As for costs, depends if you want to be able to reuse your DDR3 RAM. Personally, if I were upgrading a system right now I'd go with the latest Intel Skylake (i7-67xx) components - better driver and peripheral support going forward - but would require and extra $70 bucks or so for 16GB of DDR4 on top of the CPU and motherboard. If you want to keep your RAM you could upgrade to an i7-47xx CPU and motherboard, but you'd probably have to spend an additional $35-40 bucks on another 8GB of DDR3 RAM anyway, so you'd really only be saving $30-40 dollars. Besides, you can always sell what you take out on fleeBay.


PCPartPicker part list / Price breakdown by merchant

CPU: Intel Core i7-6700 3.4GHz Quad-Core Processor ($329.89 @ OutletPC)
Motherboard: Gigabyte GA-H170M-DS3H Micro ATX LGA1151 Motherboard ($83.99 @ SuperBiiz)
Memory: G.Skill Ripjaws V Series 16GB (2 x 8GB) DDR4-2133 Memory ($66.99 @ Newegg)
Total: $480.87
Prices include shipping, taxes, and discounts when available
Generated by PCPartPicker 2016-03-02 17:26 EST-0500

 
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