Am Samstag, 13. September 2003 21:00 schrieb ed tharp: > 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.
Agree > 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, Do not agree here really. Today you can capture with a midrange recent machine divx in realtime. > and the quality of the capture card and > signal input is more important than video card. Agree absolutly. Depending on the plans how much will be captured with that box, i would even consider to buy a dv-capture card. (not a firewire card, but a card that does the dv-encoding in hardware) > 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. scsi2 is overkill i would say, the latter you are right again, as much disk-space as possible. Steffen
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