AMD 2.1g with 1g ram and Asus A7M266 board. Have Win2k sp3. P5 was buggy in the basic release but all the successive service patches have stabilized it. Current patch seems rock solid, but I haven't gotten into animation with P5 yet. I still use P4/PP on occasion due to the speed with V3. For some reason, V3 is faster on P4. Also, the libraries are slower with the linking thing in P5. But that's about it. I mostly use P5. Your OS has more to do with it than your system from what I gather. Your system is fast enough to handle it. Dunno about the video production. Minor annoyances might bother you, but like everyone says, at that price its a pretty good deal.