boiler1990 :
Even the i3-2100 would be able to handle what you're doing with your computer, and a Z68 motherboard would allow you to transcode video faster. The stuff you're doing isn't very resource intensive.
Ideally, you could go to an i5-2400 and Z68 board with 4GB RAM, but it really depends on how much you have to spend.
Because of the issues of which I hear with Northbridge, *and* because I have someone to whom to sell whatever rebuild I make now, I decided to upgrade my MB now and wait until Ivy Bridge comes out to build something significantly better.
In fact, if I get a 775 MB with USB3 and at least two PCI slots, SATA rev.3, (six SATA connectors), and in the process of time, find a 775 Extreme processor at a cheap enough price, I might put off another upgrade even longer.
So far, I haven't been able to find a 775 MB with SATA rev.3. Do you know of any or think any will come out?
If that's not going to happen, then I'll just accept it, take SATA rev.2.
I still need a quality 775 MB for my current CPU simply because it seems my "memory error" problem must be the MB since it's happened since first boot up and never ceased through seven different DIMMS.