SF or anyone---what do you recommend for a new computer?

a_v wrote on 12/12/2001, 9:16 PM

Does anyone have any recommendations as for a new computer system. I currently have an all SCSI setup with a P3@550 with a gig of ram. Ive been using this system for almost 3 years and is really stable. I use it for audio and video. This system is maxed out and can no longer be upgraded. So....

1) P4 or Athlon? What chipsets? Has anybody worked on both? Does one seem more stable then the next? SF, what do you recommend and what do you guys use there?

2) Video cards?

I also heard something about vegas 3 only writing to IDE cd burners? is this true? no SCSI?

TO SF: Will vegas 3.0 support my pinnacle dc30? Yes, i know, firewire is here, but i like running effects from the camera and printing them and the only way to do that is with analog capture....plus, im not all that convinced firewire looks better. Im using vegas 2.0 and it sees the codec from the pinnacle, im just wondering if vegas 3.0 will retain that...Not a big deal if i cant use the capture utility in vegas but if i can, thats cool too!

Comments

bstaley wrote on 12/13/2001, 8:14 AM

I recently moved up from my PIII 933 to a Asus A7V266-E motherboard with a Athlon XP1900+ CPU and this is so fast it's scary and it's rock solid stable. Very cheap too. I did some tests with plugins and I literally got twice as many plugins with this as I did with my PIII 933. (I was comparing using Waves RenVerbs.)

I have Yamaha SCSI burner and Plextor SCSI CDROM and have had no problems with Vegas 3 on Windows 2000. I have probably burned close to 100 CDs already.

I am using a GeForce 2 MX with dual monitor outputs and it works fine. I would recommend that or maybe the new Radeon 8500. The picture quality of the Radeon is supposed to be a little better than the GeForce 2.

stakeoutstudios wrote on 12/13/2001, 8:16 AM

I'm running a new AMD Athlon XP 1700+ on a Soltek KT266A based motherboard with 512MB PC2100 DDR SDRAM, and oh my god it's quick... and oh so stable!!

and it was cheap to put together too!

woollybugger wrote on 12/13/2001, 3:36 PM

I'm running a IBM NetVista 1.8GH P4 512MB Ram Window 2000. No problems (other that the ones noted on the board)

wvg wrote on 12/13/2001, 5:06 PM

If you visit http://vcdhelp.com someone is always starting a thread over the superiority of a P4 or AMD system for video work. A 1.5 Mhz chip or faster on either is fine. Memory isn't that big a factor. Just 256MB RAM is plenty. Invest in a superior motherboard, get a decent video card and a HUGE hard drive. At least a 60GB, 80 or 100 is better. Get a flat screen monitor. They are SUPER and because of the higher contrast and brightness are close to the luminence of TV's, so if you make a lot of VCD's like I do, you won't under/over compensate doing your editing on a "dim" monitor based on old CRT technology. Besides, you get your desk back.