[Federico Dib]

Thanks for all that information. Some of that just went over my head.
I’ll try to educate myself a little more on all these GPU details.

Meanwhile here are the detailed specs for my current build.

CPU
Intel Core i7 920 @ 2.67GHz 77 °C
Bloomfield 45nm Technology
RAM
12,0GB Triple-Channel DDR3 @ 533MHz (8-8-8-19)

Motherboard
Intel Corporation DX58SO (J1PR) 59 °C

Graphics
Acer X203W (1680×1050@60Hz)
1024MB NVIDIA GeForce 9400 GT (XFX Pine Group) 78 °C

Storage
465GB Maxtor STM3500418AS ATA Device (SATA) 36 °C
4657GB Seagate Backup+ Desk USB Device (USB (SATA)) 37 °C
1863GB ADATA NH03 USB Device (USB (SATA)) 30 °C

I’ll definitely have to buy at least one good internal HD, because the external ones are not 7200rpm.
(I could have sworn that the 2TB one has 7200rpm… oh well).

This I don’t mind because I’ll use this drive on a future build, and are not that expensive.

The GPU is another story. Because whatever I can afford now, could not be as “reusable” on a future build.

[Federico Dib]

Thanks for the answer.
From what I gathered, that’s what I thought. Better card,should be a priority.

The external hard drives are connected to usb3 ports. So that will be fine for now.
I have a 650W EVGA Gold PSU.

I’ll check some of those cards prices, and do some testing with the proxy workflow.

Regarding the graphics card, I might be able to reallocate some budget and increase the amount a little bit, if (and only if) the card I get could be reused in a possible future build.

Maybe by the end of the year save enough and get a new CPU, motherboard and extra ram, reuse the rest and get a few more years of decent HD editing, and possibly some limited 4K workflow