Building a system on the Via 333 chipset

Cosmerki wrote on 5/17/2002, 7:22 AM
Hi all,

I'm new to this forum but I have searched some motherboard topics and have found precious litte info of late concerning compatability and/or performance of motherboards based on the new Via KT333 chipset. It is a very advanced chipset feature wise but some people on other video forums such as the canopus products have had very unpredictable results with the newer faster boards when rendering heavy streams of video. I found one post here where someone was using a newer IWill 333 board with success. Any Others??

I am particularly looking at the Asus A7V333 Raid board as a foundation for a quick editing system for our church. Any and all comments will be appeciated.

Thanks

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BillyBoy wrote on 5/17/2002, 8:08 AM
Just to confirm that my Iwill 333 seems very stable and has had no problems rendering, capturing or printing to tape. Haven't tried any overclocking yet, hardly needed running a XP 1900+. The newer chips run much cooler too. My older AMD 1200 under load ran about mid 120's F and at times got to 135 F. The Iwill 333 hasn't got over 107 F yet and most times is a very cool 98 idle-104 F under load. :-)

If you going to overclock a lot get a decent CPU fan/heatsink. I went with the newer Thermaltake Volcano 7 which runs at variable speed based on tempature. A BIG 80x80 copper inlayed heatsink and a fan that can really move air. A little loud even at slower speed, but you get use to it. :-)
Cosmerki wrote on 5/17/2002, 9:33 AM
Thanks BillyBoy,

I am carfully specing very quiet components because this system will at times be in public auditoriums capturing continuously in realtime for long periods 1-4hrs. It must be silent or at least very unobrusive. I have speced an Enermax dual fan power supply with variable speed fans that are temperature sensitive, an Alpha (HUGE) 8045T heat sink with a special temperature controlled Papst fan from Germany that is famed for its low noise and effecientcy. I will also have a couple of these 19db fans cooling the case. (a Noblesse Mirror case, cool in more ways than one)
It is doubtful I will be able to overclock and still maintain silent conditions but that could change if AMD would get off their bottom and release the new XP's with the thoroughbred core. (They will run MUCH cooler than the current palamino core.)

I am curious about the speed and usablity you are experiencing with your setup. ie. How many layers do you work with in real time? How long does rendering to DV take? What types of projects do you usually edit? etc?

Thanks again for your response.
BillyBoy wrote on 5/17/2002, 3:45 PM
Rendering to DV is a slow process even on a "fast" PC. My typical project is in the 30-40 minute range, I probably go a little nuts with applying filters. Most times I have two or three video tracks and maybe three or four audio tracks, so my times may be somewhat longer then others get. As a rough yardstick a recent project similar to what I just described with running time of 38 minutes took 23 hours to render using the default setting of the MPEG-2 NTSC DV template. It was rendered on my "slower" AMD 1200 Mhz system.