On Sat, 2003-09-13 at 14:46, Anne Wilson wrote: > I want to build a box whose main purpose would be video capture from > camcorder and vhs, editing, and burning to either vcd or dvd. All > funds available should go into the most essential bits for that > purpose, so I'd like some opinions, please. > > Mobo - I'm torn between Asus A7v8X-X and Soltek SL-KT400-A4C. Specs > are very similar. Both have Via KT400/VT8235 chipsets. > > Asus has 8x agp and Soltek has 4x agp > > Asus has Realtek 6-chanel codec, which I take to mean on-board sound, > and Soltek has 6-ch AC'97 Audio. I've always avoided on-board audio > in the past, disabling it and putting in a card. Is that still worth > the effort/expense? > > Asus also offers on-board lan. I think these have been troublesome? > > Graphics cards - since I don't do gaming I've not been into the latest > thing in video cards, so I don't know what is significant and what is > hype. I'm looking at 128MB XFX Geforce4 MX44- or FX5200. I could go > higher if there's a real advantage. Any thoughts? > > Any comments about anything I haven't mentioned that is significant in > this scenario? > > Anne
My opinion... Forget all the video cards and sound stuff,,, the 128 meg mem Video card is over kill, and the AC97 6 channel sound should be fine too. The real bottle neck is going to be hard drive write speed. during capture that is. my suggestion might be to go with 2 different boxes, since capture is one thing and rendering a full different set of problems and bottlenecks. capture is just as fast and accurate as long as the drive keeps up, and the quality of the capture card and signal input is more important than video card. get all the memory you can stuff on the Mobo (up to around 750, really no advantage above that unless you can go greater than 2 gigs memory) most folks used to swear you had to have fast wide scsi2 hard drives at least, but I am sure IDE udma4 or faster, and as large a hard drive cache as available will help. -- ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ Mandrake HowTo's & More: http://twiki.mdklinuxfaq.org
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