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Do I need to upgrade my computer?

Posted By dadarudran 10 Years Ago
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Do I need to upgrade my computer?

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Do I need to upgrade my computer?  It runs well but it's rather old and I'm putting a fairly heavy load on it.  What I've got now is a home-built computer, Windows 8.1. 
Processor:  Intel Core 2 Duo CPU   E7400  @2.80 GHz  2.27GHz
Installed memory (RAM):  4.00 GB (3.25 usable)
System type:  32=bit Operating System, x64-based processor
Pen and Touch--No pen or touch is available.
Motherboard: Gigagyte  (I don't know what model)
Gigabyte Graphics card, AMD Radeon HD6670  2GB  DDR3
500 Watt power unit
237 GB free of 278 GB
I've got 12 projects so far, each between 70-100 MB, for a rough total of over 900 MB.  It runs 13 minutes so far.  But my plan for the movie is much larger--it should be roughly 30 minutes with lots more projects.  Everything used to run perfectly but recently when I put all the projects together in my Corel Video Studio Pro X4, after 10 minutes or so the screen suddenly goes dark.  When I left click the mouse, the screen lights up again but the action has stopped and I have to click the start button.  The movie resumes from the same place where it stopped and then finishes.  Each time I play the movie, the movie stops at a different place, but the movie always stops some place before finishing.  Could the problem simply be that the screen-saver automatically activates itself after about 10 minutes or so, which makes the screen go dark? 
Also, I didn't try to render anything yet but I'm worried that it will render at a crawl or maybe not have enough power to do any rendering.
So, do I need to upgrade my computer?  If so, what do you recommend? I'm only an amateur, not a pro, and I'm on a limited budget.  (I'm not planning to get iClone 6 but even if i did, I guess that it would not improve my situation).




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