Have to agree with Millsy on this one - making a $800 budget stretch that far will take some doing! If you factor in the rediculous $1 of goods = £1 of goods in the UK, you're looking at an £800 rig.
Seeing as I was bored, I looked at the cost of building a system around an Athon 64 3200. Price (with on board sound and one DVD-RW, rest of spec as stated) was just over £700. Add on the video editing card and you're easily in the £1,000 bracket. And that's without the monitor!
Granted, I did opt for the best components, but you might want to consider holding fire on the mid range editing card for a while. £500 is a lot of money if you're not going to use it that much.
Put it this way, my editing rig ended up costing over £1800 including an 18" TFT (hey, I got a P4 3.06 over a year ago!). And do you know what, all I have is an onboard firewire card for editing! I figured I'd rather spend the money on other areas... and when I finally do get REALLY into the whole video editing THANG, I'll buy myself a card. But the more I think about the purchase, the less attractive the video editing card becomes!
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