Opening programs is more about hard drive speed. You should definitely get faster encoding with your media files though. Just let the program use the affinity it wants to.
It is definitely better than the futureshop computer! That 4870 is leaps and bounds above the 4650 and 8 GB of RAM is overkill at the moment unless you are doing some heavy video/photo editing while playing flash games in six separate browser windows with Crysis open in another.
You may need to go with a little bigger power supply but definitely take both back to the store and order online...you can get so much better deals from places like:
www.pricewatch.com or
www.newegg.com
This is all...assuming you have a PCI Express slot...which I am almost positive you do.
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