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Steve1138
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HCPC - how much horsepower ?
My decision for how much is needed (or justified) hinges on deciding which bus speed to go for on the MoBo.
The default option is a 533 MHz board and the "ultimate" being a 800 MHz board...
The board also determines the type of RAM, CPU and graphics board I'd get... which obviously raises the price a bit.
The big question is whether the additional speed & power is needed or sufficiently benificial to justify the higher cost:
Main elements are
512 MB DDR RAM - probably Corsair XMS Cas 2
P4 2.4 GHz CPU
Radeon 9xxx GPU
with exact types being determined by the MoBo FSB choice (533 or 800)
Seagate Barracuda (2) HDD's (60 or 80 and 120)
533 MHz (ASUS P4PE)
- AGP4x
- RADEON 9000 128 Pro (AGP 4x) eg.: HIS Excalibur ViVo
- DX 8 only ?
- i845 chipset
- PC2700 (533 MHz) RAM
- non Hyper threading (2.4 GHz) 533 FSB P4 CPU\
- 6 x PCI
800 MHz (ASUS P4P 800)
- AGP8x
- RADEON 9200 128 or 9500 128 (AGP 8x) eg.: HIS Excalibur, Sapphire
- DX 9 available
- i865 chipset
- PC3200 (533 MHz) RAM
- Hyper threading (2.4 GHz) 800 FSB P4 CPU
- 5 x PCI
both setups have good overclocking possibilites. LAN, RAID - if present - will not be used.
PC will be used as
- DVD / dig.vid. file player
- video capture
- some video editing / encoding / transcoding (also done on another PC)
- later as scaler / vid procesor for (not yet acquired) projector.
- (will not be optimised for gaming - hence no 9700 / 9800 on the list)
DVD burning may stay on the main home PC (SONY 500), as I'll soon have combi ADSL + wireless network and can transfer captured files to main home PC for most processing work.
additional cards will include
- analog capture cards (xCapture (Conexant 2388) and Terratec (Philips SAA7134)) - already got.
- MPEG hardware capture card (VIDAC Vmagic ? new (next) version)
- digital sat card (Pinnacle ? or new sat Nebula Electronics..)
- Terratec sound card w. optical I/O - already got
so chaps - is it worth paying for the higher performance ?
(IS THERE any real world "higher performance" for these duties ?)
Main area it might help is in the analog capture at high resolutions, to avoid dropped frames.
Less of an issue for the MPEG hardware capture ?
and no issue for the dig.Sat card which saves MPEG II direct to the HDD
Finally - the ASUS board with SiS chipset instead of i865 (equiv to P4P 800) looks really good at much lower price...
what experience with SiS based boards ?
I couldn't find any reviews
Thanks for any comments
Steve
My decision for how much is needed (or justified) hinges on deciding which bus speed to go for on the MoBo.
The default option is a 533 MHz board and the "ultimate" being a 800 MHz board...
The board also determines the type of RAM, CPU and graphics board I'd get... which obviously raises the price a bit.
The big question is whether the additional speed & power is needed or sufficiently benificial to justify the higher cost:
Main elements are
512 MB DDR RAM - probably Corsair XMS Cas 2
P4 2.4 GHz CPU
Radeon 9xxx GPU
with exact types being determined by the MoBo FSB choice (533 or 800)
Seagate Barracuda (2) HDD's (60 or 80 and 120)
533 MHz (ASUS P4PE)
- AGP4x
- RADEON 9000 128 Pro (AGP 4x) eg.: HIS Excalibur ViVo
- DX 8 only ?
- i845 chipset
- PC2700 (533 MHz) RAM
- non Hyper threading (2.4 GHz) 533 FSB P4 CPU\
- 6 x PCI
800 MHz (ASUS P4P 800)
- AGP8x
- RADEON 9200 128 or 9500 128 (AGP 8x) eg.: HIS Excalibur, Sapphire
- DX 9 available
- i865 chipset
- PC3200 (533 MHz) RAM
- Hyper threading (2.4 GHz) 800 FSB P4 CPU
- 5 x PCI
both setups have good overclocking possibilites. LAN, RAID - if present - will not be used.
PC will be used as
- DVD / dig.vid. file player
- video capture
- some video editing / encoding / transcoding (also done on another PC)
- later as scaler / vid procesor for (not yet acquired) projector.
- (will not be optimised for gaming - hence no 9700 / 9800 on the list)
DVD burning may stay on the main home PC (SONY 500), as I'll soon have combi ADSL + wireless network and can transfer captured files to main home PC for most processing work.
additional cards will include
- analog capture cards (xCapture (Conexant 2388) and Terratec (Philips SAA7134)) - already got.
- MPEG hardware capture card (VIDAC Vmagic ? new (next) version)
- digital sat card (Pinnacle ? or new sat Nebula Electronics..)
- Terratec sound card w. optical I/O - already got
so chaps - is it worth paying for the higher performance ?
(IS THERE any real world "higher performance" for these duties ?)
Main area it might help is in the analog capture at high resolutions, to avoid dropped frames.
Less of an issue for the MPEG hardware capture ?
and no issue for the dig.Sat card which saves MPEG II direct to the HDD
Finally - the ASUS board with SiS chipset instead of i865 (equiv to P4P 800) looks really good at much lower price...
what experience with SiS based boards ?
I couldn't find any reviews
Thanks for any comments
Steve