Here's another solution (and think about this) The ATI AIW is still a software-encoding system. So, it takes high CPU.
I had this card on my dual 3.06 Xeon for a year, and it only pulled 12 percent CPU when recording at it's highest level. I eventually moved thtat 9600 AIW over to a P4 3.0 for a short while. I can tell you from experience with your AIW 9600 PRO on a P4 3.0 that it will use under 50 percent CPU when recording DVD quality video. I think it is only about 35 to 40 percent on a P4 3.0.
My USB2 Hauppauge pulls 40 percent CPU on a P4 3.4 2meg cache Prescott, and it is quite a bit more CPU intensive then the AIWs.
Get a card that does true hardware compression (like an ATI Theater 550 based card, or whatever) as a separate PCI input. Then, you'll get DVD-standardized MPEG captures which will make outputting easy and put very minimal processor load, no matter what you are running. :) ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- ---------- FIGHT BACK AGAINST SPAM! Download Spam Inspector, the Award Winning Anti-Spam Filter http://mail.giantcompany.com > -----Original Message----- > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:hardware- > [EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of AMDSpeed > Sent: Saturday, January 07, 2006 5:40 PM > To: 'The Hardware List' > Subject: [H] Recommendation on computer build > > I'm in the process of building my girlfriend a computer on a budget. She > plans on recording interviews with patients using a miniDV camcorder and > using the footage to make instructional DVDs and powerpoint presentations. > > Now, I have an Asus A7N8X with a 2.2Ghz Athlon XP (3200+) on hand. I also > have an Abit IS7-V motherboard. It is currently running a Celeron, but I > will likely upgrade it to a P4 2.8 or 3 Ghz chip. My question is which > platform would be best for this task? Whichever board I choose, it will > have > 1GB of RAM and an ATI AIW 9600 vid card. So it basically comes down to > Intel > or AMD for this computer. Thanks.
