Doug,
Sounds like an 8 year old PC would struggle with video editing.
RAM would help, but the CPU may struggle to keep up. HD would out of the
question.
Maybe your dual core might do it - I had an E6600 which handled SD fine,
but I upgraded when I went to HD.
Even picking up the opposite of bleeding edge (ie. components new but a
couple of years out of date), might not set you back too much.
Best of luck,
David
ps. good to hear grandma is still with us!
On 02/04/12 01:31, Douglas Pollard wrote:
My old HP Box with 2.2ghrtz Asus dual core 64 bit mother board over
heated and died. It was limited to I g ram and it ran hot at 225f. I
was doing black and white video over an hour long and the machine was
well over 200F when half way through. I put this temperature info in
here as it may be of some use to others.
I have a 2004 IBM Think Centre desktop. 3 ghtz quad core, with
i386 processors. I plan to dedicate it as a video editing machine. It
only has 512 MB of ram but I will upgrade to probably 2g or maybe 4 if
I can get off the money. I have a 250G hard drive I can replace the
old 120 G drive with it. This would seem a nice video editing box.
I loaded a video on Cinelerra to see if could be run at all. It
runs slowly and very jumpy. Would that likely be due to not having
enough ram or is something else going on here? I am using AVlinux
which I am liking a lot. I would appreciate any advice if anyone has
any experience with these IBM machines that would indicate the machine
might not be suitable. I also have a Dell dual core 64 bit 2.8 Ghtz
machine that I could use as a dedicated machine instead. The only
thing I see that could be a problem is the drive is small and the
parts are all proprietary and the drives I have won't install to the
Dell harnesses.
I have been using ubuntu but am not crazy about the direction it
is going and do like Avlinux desktop and configuration. I would
appreciate any comments that any think might be
helpful.
Thanks,
Doug Pollard
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