Don't want to start a new thread, so here it goes:

It's time for me to go the HDV way now. I've got the Sony HC1 on the way and should get the heck out of it. Unfortunately, I don't like the thought that my 2 year old PC will hardly keep up with HDV editing. So it's an Athlon64 3000+ (1,8 GHz, FSB 1000 MHz, HT, socket 939), 1 GB DDR400 (2 x 512 MB), MSI Geforce4 MX 4000 (64 MB DDRAM, AGP 8x, DirectX 9.0), Pinnacle Studio AV/DV, Asus DVDRW (new), Seagate Barracuda 250 GB (system drive), WD Caviar JB 80 GB (data drive). I'd like to keep the hard drives and the motherboard (Asus A8V), but I'll prabably have to upgrade the CPU and the graphics card. I'm not sure if that motherboard supports AthlonFX processors faster the 4000+ so that should probably be the limit, as for the graphics card, AGP 8x is the only way for me. What components do you recommend and how do you estimate the costs (taking into account that the holiday season will leave me broke)?