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Originally posted by browna@Sep 3 2004, 07:29 PM
Ok.
I'm looking to get a new comp..I had a Vaio, until the system kep crashing...with the recovery on a partiton of the hard drive, when the comp wouldn't boot in any mode, I returned it.
What are the minimum requirements for transfering VHS onto DVD? Or, maybe what is my best bet for a system like I've listed below.
Hp makes a standalone VHS to DVD that needs no comp (but can be attached to one for basic editing before burning) that I have been looking at.
Save that, what should I be looking for?
I prefer Pentium, would like Firewire for fast transfer...but for decent speed and video (just copying some VHS and as I have a DV capable video camera I may want to do basic video edit.
Past that, what should I be looking for? And where should i be looking?
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Hmmm.. Let me make some coffee!
Okay for starters I'm an AMD fan.
Right now, overall my understanding for CPU (only) intensive applications such as video encoding and ripping and compiling Intel's fastest chip's are on par, or slightly better then AMD.
http://www6.tomshardware.com/cpu/20040601/...art_concept.gif
Red and green are athlon.
Blue is intel
http://www6.tomshardware.com/cpu/20040601/...art_studio9.gif
http://www6.tomshardware.com/cpu/20040601/.../chart_divx.gif
http://www6.tomshardware.com/cpu/20040601/.../chart_xvid.gif
Two of the Audios Athlon wins, the benchmarking apps go both ways, and in most of the games the Athlon CPU's trounce the INTEL ones
Now any difference between all the victories of one CPU over the other that are marginal show you how close some comparisons are. But price/performance ratio the AMD CPU's will win.
Basically any sytem you want to buy for video stuff is Processor/Ram/Motherboard then Hard drive fianlly video card.
You'll want lots of space. Which isn't such a big deal anymore because 160GB HDD's are $150.00 or less. Make sure it's a 7200 RPM and has 8mb cache. When shopping or reading you may hear SATA or PATA or NCQ (native command query) those are all beneficial technologies, however they have yet to offer any substatial improvments in HDD speed. the ATA and SATA would help except the drive can only turn 7200 or 10,000 RPM's so the theoretical bandwidth that these interfaces can use isn't even able to be used by the speed of the drive. Next the NCQ is going to be a good technology, yet only 1 motherboard supports it.
RAM get 1024 MB's. It's not that expensive, and it's a great start.
Video card, well read above about what people have said with the video capture cards or Video All in wonder cards that are APG cards and capture cards in one. I really like the ATI AIW cards.
Your biggest delimma should be the CPU Motherboard combo.
I'd say go AMD. Which leads to two choices. 754 platform, or 939.
The 754 platform is over a year old and AMD's first 64 bit desktop series. The 939 is the next version.
don't ask why would I need 64 bit when it's not available because it's an added bonus. The CPU's outperform their INTEL equivalents (IMO, and others) at 32 bit functionality and are cheaper, before the 64 bit comes into play.
The CPU uses an integrated memory controller called hypertransport.
http://www6.tomshardware.com/cpu/200...lon_64-10.html which has come a long way since that article from last year. The 754's give you:
1600MHz system bus w/ HyperTransport™ technology
- up to 9.6GB/sec total processor-to-system bandwidth
and the 939:
2000MHz system bus w/ HyperTransport™ technology
Up to 14.4 GB/s
VS the FSB of 800 with the intel.. althought their new CPU might be higher.. going to look. Nope their $1249.00 top of the line CPU is 800FSB.
The memory for 754 is single channel which means you can use 1/2/3/4 sticks of varying sizes.
The memory for 939 is dual channel which means you can use /2/4 sticks of equal sizes (or maybe just one alone.. not really sure I've never owned a dual channel system)
Honestly, you'll get decent performance out of both. But what I really like is the upgrade path for 754 and 939.
Right now 754 you can get a sempron 3100 athlon 2800, 3000, 3200, 3400, 3700+ 64 bit CPU's. as well as rumors of 3900, 4000, and 4100 or 4200. So buying the cheapest one gives you a great CPU with 64 bit upgradability path and a long line of CPU's to upgrade too.
What's pretty sweet is the 939's currently supported by the 3500 3800 and the Athlon FX-51 FX-53 and more coming as well as the 939 sempron which is a value CPU (same with the 754) they have the 64 bit disabled. and half the cache.. Anyway what's exciting is the new Motherboards coming out are said to liekly support the Dual-core CPU's that will be coming out within a year by AMD.
A dual core is pretty much a dual cpu in one. Which would be pretty sweet, and would rock any benchmark...
Okay, I could go on forever. IMO AMD 939 is the best way to go if you have the cash.
followed by amd 754
followed by Intel P4's 3.0+ CPU's
followed by Athlon XP's.
Anyone feel free to correct any of my mistakes because I'm not an expert these are just the conclusions I've drawn from reading stuff online and being a dork..
Okay, I noticed I forgot a lot of your questions.
Firewire - just make sure it's an accesory on your motherboard. I'ts good for hooking up digital cameras. as for going vhs to PC you'd use a video in connection that came with the TV tuner, vga, composite... etc..
A machine that does VHS to DVD as a signle unit (asking wrong person) I have no experience with those..