On Mon, 27 Sep 2004, Osland, CD (Chris) wrote: >> Is the Rushmore significantly nicer than the G200 MMS? > > Anything's nicer than the G200, IMHO! Good in its day, which was > some years ago.
;) Indeed, but the card specced on the ultimate machine was hardly a beast as far as 3D goes. At the moment we have a parhelia, which shows substandard build quality, combined with a G450 PCI dual-head. >> What's suitable for video capture? > > Looking at our Linux box doing video capture under Linux on a > single processor Athlon XP1600, it took about 8-10% per stream. > So half an XP1600 was enough for 4 streams, using Hauppage > cards. Haven't used Winnov Videum under Linux, so can't give > you a figure for that. My question was more what Video Capture device people find gives them joy under linux. We've got a load of WinTV affairs with our current rig, but was wondering what shiny toy people play with in the modern world... > I'm not a Linux-savvy person, but if Linux can handle multiple > processors intelligently, I would have thought a twin 3 GHz > machine with, say 2 Gb memory, and a decent display card would > be fine. I don't see that the overall parameters need be much > different for Windows XP and Linux, although the detail may be > as a result of driver availability or performance. That's roughly my thinking. Cheers, jh -- "I don't want to achieve immortality through my work... I want to achieve it through not dying." -- Woody Allen
