All my forum comments are based on or refer to my System 1.
My struggle is over! I built my (now) system 2 in 2011 when DV was king and MPEG 2 was just coming onto the scene and I needed a more powerful system to cope. Since then we've advanced to MP4 and to bigger and bigger resolutions. I was really suffering, not so much in editing (with proxies) but in encoding, which just took ages. A video, with Neat Video noise reduction applied, would encode at 12% of film speed. My new system 1 does the same job at 160% of film speed. Marvellous. I'm keeping my old system as a capture station for analogue video tapes and DV.
System 1
Windows 11 v23H2 severely modified by Openshell and ExplorerPatcher
Power supply: 850W Cooler Master (should have got modular)
CPU: Intel i7 13700K running at 3400mhz, cooled by a Kraken 2x140mm All In One liquid cooler.
RAM: 64gb (2x32gb sticks) G.Skill "Ripjaws" DDR4 3200Mhz
GPU 1: iGPU UHD 770
GPU 2: NVidia RTX 3060Ti Windforce 8gb
C drive: NVME 500gb
Various other SSD and HDDs.
Monitor: 27"/68cm Samsung, 2560 x 1440, 43 pixels/cm.
MEP 2021 version 20.0.1.80
Movie Studio 2023 version 22.0.3.172
Magix Video Easy version 7.0.1.145
System 2
(Still in use for TV and videotape capture)
Windows 10 v22H2
CPU: i5-750 at 2670mhz with 12gb RAM
Onboard IEEE1394 (Firewire) port
GPU: ATI Radeon HD 4770 (512mb) which is ignored by MEP
Hard drives: C Drive 256gb SSD, various other HDDs.
Monitor: Dell 22"/56cm, 1680x1050, 35 pixels/cm
MEP 2021 version 20.0.1.80
Movie Studio 2023 version 22.0.3.172
VPX 12