Want to upgrade...but...

Hello users.
I'm planning to upgrade to the CS3 premium suite (about time...) but wondering if my system spec will be able to perform with the needs of the latest suite requirements... so any advices from you "advised" users will be appreciated.
I'm now running:
AMD Athlon XP 2400+
2.00 Ghz
1.5 GB of ram
40 GB for C drive
680 GB on 5 more stream drive
Video card Matrox Millenium G450 DualHead
Sound card Creative SB Audigy
Mother Board Asus A7N8X
Windows XP SP1 (to avoid all the conflicts)
Softwares:
Adobe Premiere 6.5 with Pinnacle DV500(break box for analog signal)
After Effects 6.5
Photoshop 6.0
Everything works fine for now but want to upgrade to improve my workflow and be more competitive with all the new features that the CS3 suite offers... and I want to be sure if my computer will "take" it or if I need to adjust or also upgrade my CPU... Is it OK or what would I need???
Thanks in advance to you all
Happy editing
Kryss

I used a similar system with AE 7.0 to render over 400 GB of 1920x1080 image sequences in 16-bit, with the difference that I had 3 GB of RAM (and I avoid Matrox cards like the plague.) I'd seriously recommend to upgrade to XP SP2, 4 GB of RAM and a cheap nVidia GeForce card, such as the 7000-series.
With more RAM and a better graphics card (to make the system more stable) and XP SP2, you'll be able to work, but if you upgrade to a cheap office-type computer you'll get a system that should give you at least twice the performance of an upgraded version of your current system, for around $850:
Dell Inspiron 530:
Intel Core2 Duo Processor E6550 (4MB L2 Cache,2.33GHz,1333 FSB)
Windows® XP Professional - English
4GB Dual Channel DDR2 SDRAM at 800MHz- 4DIMMs
250GB Serial ATA Hard Drive (7200RPM)
16x DVD+/-RW Drive
nVidia GeForce 8300GS 128MB
Integrated 7.1 Channel Audio
IEEE 1394a Adapter
Also note that Premiere Pro won't run on an Athlon processor!
- Jonas Hummelstrand
http://generalspecialist.com/

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