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[PLUG] [OT ... umm not really ] Buying New Hardware, Suggestions Please!
Hi All,
I am planning to upgrade my humble P-III 450 Mhz with P-IV, however I am
very much willing to experiment and I have heard that AMD Athlon is
doing really great. Due to this I am confused and am seeking advice as
which Motherboard, CPU and RAM I should opt for.
My requirement are simple I need some mean CPU that can do MPEG-1/2
encoding/decoding fast enough. On my current hardware spec *kino* dies
saying there is no enough memory resource available :(. Of course my
machine has 128 Mb RAM but I guess that is quite less. Again many a
times *mplayer* also grumbles that my system is very slow to play some
mpeg files.
I had recently purchased Sony DCR-TRV33E, a firewire card (IEEE 1394). I
tried capturing DV movie on my desk through some win application (Since
kino dies :( ). I went ahead and tried to convert the DV movie to DVD
mpeg-II standard. It seems that to convert a six minute clip, my machine
needs to run for 4-6 hours to create the mpeg file. Now thats pretty
slow. Hence the need to upgrade.
Any recommendation for multimedia intensive task?
TIA.
-McLinux
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