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7/28/12 at 4:41pm
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I built my cousin a budget PC for web browsing and light photo use about a year ago and he contacted me recently saying he has recently purchased an HD camcorder, and is having trouble reincoding HD videos with it. He has a website that has a 1GB limit file size so he is using windows movie maker to compress his 1080P HD videos to 1GB for his site.

Looking to beef up his build a bit so that he can do this a bit easier.



Build is as follows from Newegg.

N82E16822148701 HD 500G|ST SATA3 16M ST3500413AS % 1 39.99
N82E16820231395 MEM 2G|GSKILL F3-10666CL9S-2GBNS 1 19.99
N82E16832116986 WIN 7 HOME PREM SP1 64BIT 1PK - OEM 1 99.99
N82E16819103933 CPU AMD|ATH II X2 245 2.9G 2M AM3 % 1 49.99
N82E16813138283 MB BIOSTAR A880G+ AM3 RTL 1 54.99
N82E16827136216 DVD BURNER LG|GH22NS50 BULK % 1 18.99
N82E16817371033 PSU ANTEC| EA-380D GREEN RT 1 39.99
N82E16820717005 CARD READ IMC|FX-087 R 1 10.99



Budget for this upgrade is around $100



What would you do to get the best performance at what he is doing from this PC for the money he has to spend?
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7/28/12 at 4:45pm
Probably a boost in the GPU(Video Card) Would be good for video editing, more RAM is good too, I'm pretty sure it cuts down on the amount of time it takes to encode and such, also SSD, or a better HDD would be suitable. Personally I think the CPU is fine at 2.9GHz, but thats just me
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7/28/12 at 5:01pm
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Probably a boost in the GPU(Video Card) Would be good for video editing, more RAM is good too, I'm pretty sure it cuts down on the amount of time it takes to encode and such, also SSD, or a better HDD would be suitable. Personally I think the CPU is fine at 2.9GHz, but thats just me


I don't think Windows Movie Maker uses the GPU for any of it's encoding. I am pretty sure it is all CPU
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7/28/12 at 5:17pm
Upping to an Athlon quad or even a phenom quad would help speed up the encoding process.... He only has 2 gb's of ram?

I'm using a Phenom II x4 with an 880g board with Avid Studio for video editing. Avid doesn't utilize my GPU at all, just the cores.

http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16819103889

http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16820231423

That Athlon II x4 and 4gigs of ram would put you up to 6 gigs, and twice as much processor power. I've used that same motherboard before, it is a good budget board, however, I wouldn't put at 125watt Phenom in there cause those mosfets aren't cooled and could blow if you tried to overclock the Phenom.

Both of those parts would run up to $92.48 with free shipping and that promo code on the CPU.

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7/28/12 at 5:30pm
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Upping to an Athlon quad or even a phenom quad would help speed up the encoding process.... He only has 2 gb's of ram?
I'm using a Phenom II x4 with an 880g board with Avid Studio for video editing. Avid doesn't utilize my GPU at all, just the cores.
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16819103889
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16820231423
That Athlon II x4 and 4gigs of ram would put you up to 6 gigs, and twice as much processor power. I've used that same motherboard before, it is a good budget board, however, I wouldn't put at 125watt Phenom in there cause those mosfets aren't cooled and could blow if you tried to overclock the Phenom.
Both of those parts would run up to $92.48 with free shipping and that promo code on the CPU.
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That's pretty much exactly what I was thinking about doing , Just wanted to get some input!
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7/28/12 at 5:33pm
Awesome!
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