RAM or CPU ?

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ido
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Joined: Jul 4 2001

Hi, all!
Before buying the DVNOW AV - is my computer
has enough horse power ?
P3 500
512 RAM
30 GB HD (7200)
GFORCE 2 32 MB card (ELSA)
Thanx !

dpalomaki
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Joined: Jan 2 2001

You may want a second, separate hard drive for your video files. Keep the program files onyour current drive. Be sure that the video drive is UDMA 66 or faster, is connected for that mode with the proper cables, and is configured for DMA access. Maybe someone else can speak to the video card.

Mike D
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Joined: Dec 21 2000

P3 500 will do. It may be a bit slower for encoding to Mpeg, but for the DV files it'll be fine.
Memory is fine..
Needs another hard drive as Don stated.
Video card is fine.

TRON2K1
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Joined: May 17 2001

I had a p3 450. Was kind of slow. Especially while scrolling through the timeline. It did work however. I upgraded to a p3 800. It works great now. Upgrading processor is easy. As long as your motherboard supports a faster chip.

bcrabtree
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Joined: Mar 7 1999

ido posted this separately, rather than as a comment to the thread, so I've zapped the original and copied his question here (and had a stab at answering it below!):

Bob C

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Thank you for your response.
Q.When it said "slower for encoding to Mpeg"
Does it mean only more time of the process,
or does it mean - dropping frames ?-
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A. More time for processing, I'd judge.

Bob C