Hi,
I am about to review my PC motherborad and CPU with a new upgrade. I have good system components-
P733 on Asus CUV-4X
768Mb (3xPC133)
IBM UATA 45GB + 2 x Maxtor UATA/100 EIDE striped Raid
Yamaha 16/10/40 CD-RW
Hercules GTS Ultra 64Mb
Hitachi DVD-ROM
Win2000 SP1
but still hit processor as a frequent bottleneck. I do a fair bit of amateur DV editing and image processing and would like to be able to MPEG4 my movies onto CD etc. Also music ripping etc.
Right now I'm trying to work out the best direction for better processing capacity. I am on a pretty free budget (some may say I should just buy a G4 for DV) but not unlimited (an extra $1k - $1.5k).
I still need to retain an ISA slot for a PCMCIA reader I need, plus I have an IDE raid card (I could retire with a raid motherboard) and Firewire interfaces etc.
Assuming free hand - should I look at 2 CPU intel v.s. single large AMD? Is there an AMD ATX board out there with the 5PCI, AGP4 and single ISA that I need?
I lean towards AMD 1200 but will the board I need be available and is it going to be faster for image and adio processing that a pair of PIII 1000s?
Thanks for your opinions,
Pete.
I am about to review my PC motherborad and CPU with a new upgrade. I have good system components-
P733 on Asus CUV-4X
768Mb (3xPC133)
IBM UATA 45GB + 2 x Maxtor UATA/100 EIDE striped Raid
Yamaha 16/10/40 CD-RW
Hercules GTS Ultra 64Mb
Hitachi DVD-ROM
Win2000 SP1
but still hit processor as a frequent bottleneck. I do a fair bit of amateur DV editing and image processing and would like to be able to MPEG4 my movies onto CD etc. Also music ripping etc.
Right now I'm trying to work out the best direction for better processing capacity. I am on a pretty free budget (some may say I should just buy a G4 for DV) but not unlimited (an extra $1k - $1.5k).
I still need to retain an ISA slot for a PCMCIA reader I need, plus I have an IDE raid card (I could retire with a raid motherboard) and Firewire interfaces etc.
Assuming free hand - should I look at 2 CPU intel v.s. single large AMD? Is there an AMD ATX board out there with the 5PCI, AGP4 and single ISA that I need?
I lean towards AMD 1200 but will the board I need be available and is it going to be faster for image and adio processing that a pair of PIII 1000s?
Thanks for your opinions,
Pete.