Improve performance of non gaming rig

saintuksaintuk
edited January 2006 in Nerdery
I bought a new pc 2 years ago for gaming. Now I dont game but do a lot of video editing, is there anything I can do to improve performance?
K7N2 Delta2 board
Athlon XP3200
1GB RAM
Geforce FX 5900XT
Win XP Pro

Comments

  • lemonlimelemonlime Canada Member
    edited January 2006
    Your CPU is still fairly powerful to today's standards. The easiest way to get a bit of a performance boost in gaming would be to invest in a new graphics card. Unfortnatly, all of the top-end performers are PCI-Express models. The 6800GS may be a good choice and should provide a nice boost in performance.

    What kind of budget do you have in mind?
  • RWBRWB Icrontian
    edited January 2006
    If all your doing is video editing, then all you really need is memory, HDD storage, and perhaps a video capture card of some sort I'd say.
  • GrayFoxGrayFox /dev/urandom Member
    edited January 2006
    lemonlime wrote:
    Your CPU is still fairly powerful to today's standards. The easiest way to get a bit of a performance boost in gaming would be to invest in a new graphics card. Unfortnatly, all of the top-end performers are PCI-Express models. The 6800GS may be a good choice and should provide a nice boost in performance.

    What kind of budget do you have in mind?

    The only graphics cards that will increese your proformence in video editing are ati's new X1000 series cards.
    Do what Rwb said.
  • lemonlimelemonlime Canada Member
    edited January 2006
    Oops, I read the post wrong, I thought you wanted improved gaming performance. RWB did give you some sound advice there.
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