Re: Seeking CPU Recomendations

2007-01-06 Thread Bob
Hans du Plooy wrote: On Tue, 2007-01-02 at 23:40 -0500, Marty wrote: Nevetheless, I seem to recall not getting full memory bus speed specifically with the 1800+ on the KX400+, but I could be mistaken. The only reason why you wouldn't have been able to get the full memory bus speed is if the me

Re: Seeking CPU Recomendations

2007-01-03 Thread Hans du Plooy
On Tue, 2007-01-02 at 23:40 -0500, Marty wrote: > Nevetheless, I seem to recall not getting full memory bus speed specifically > with the 1800+ on the KX400+, but I could be mistaken. The only reason why you wouldn't have been able to get the full memory bus speed is if the memory couldn't do it.

Re: Seeking CPU Recomendations

2007-01-02 Thread Marty
Hans du Plooy wrote: On Mon, 2007-01-01 at 17:40 -0500, Marty wrote: Hans du Plooy wrote: > Why would the CPU speed limit the amount of memory you can use? If the > motherboard can handle 3GB, the CPU will handle 3GB. > > Hans > I meant in terms of performance, not capacity. I don't recall t

Re: Seeking CPU Recomendations

2007-01-02 Thread Hans du Plooy
On Mon, 2007-01-01 at 17:40 -0500, Marty wrote: > Hans du Plooy wrote: > > Why would the CPU speed limit the amount of memory you can use? If the > > motherboard can handle 3GB, the CPU will handle 3GB. > > > > Hans > > > I meant in terms of performance, not capacity. I don't recall the specifi

Re: Seeking CPU Recomendations

2007-01-02 Thread Kenward Vaughan
On Mon, Jan 01, 2007 at 08:39:02PM -0500, Thomas H. George wrote: > On Mon, Jan 01, 2007 at 02:20:47PM -0800, Kevin Ross wrote: > > You didn't say what kind of camcorder you have. Is it a digital camcorder, > > that you can download the video via FireWire or USB 2.0? Or does it only > > have an

Re: Re: Seeking CPU Recomendations

2007-01-01 Thread Kevin Ross
> The camera is a Sony Digital 8 DCR-TRV525 NTSC. It has a firewire port. > There are instructions for downloading video to the camera but none for > writing from it directly to a file on a hard drive. How is this > sychronized? Try dvgrab. BTW, your current hardware should be more than adequat

Re: Seeking CPU Recomendations

2007-01-01 Thread Thomas H. George
On Mon, Jan 01, 2007 at 02:20:47PM -0800, Kevin Ross wrote: > You didn't say what kind of camcorder you have. Is it a digital camcorder, > that you can download the video via FireWire or USB 2.0? Or does it only > have analog output that you must capture with a traditional video capture > card

Re: Seeking CPU Recomendations

2007-01-01 Thread Marty
Hans du Plooy wrote: On Mon, 2007-01-01 at 14:39 -0500, Marty wrote: I recommend at least 1G of DDR SDRAM, which KX400 fully supports, but may not fully utilized by the 1800+. Why would the CPU speed limit the amount of memory you can use? If the motherboard can handle 3GB, the CPU will handl

Re: Seeking CPU Recomendations

2007-01-01 Thread Kevin Ross
You didn't say what kind of camcorder you have. Is it a digital camcorder, that you can download the video via FireWire or USB 2.0? Or does it only have analog output that you must capture with a traditional video capture card?

Re: Seeking CPU Recomendations

2007-01-01 Thread Thomas H. George
On Mon, Jan 01, 2007 at 02:42:22PM -0500, Douglas Tutty wrote: > On Mon, Jan 01, 2007 at 01:29:55PM -0600, Hugo Vanwoerkom wrote: > > Thomas H. George wrote: > > >On Mon, Jan 01, 2007 at 11:05:57AM -0600, Hugo Vanwoerkom wrote: > > >>Thomas H. George wrote: > > >>>Until now my Athlon XP 1800+ has b

Re: Seeking CPU Recomendations

2007-01-01 Thread Hans du Plooy
On Mon, 2007-01-01 at 13:33 -0500, Thomas H. George wrote: > considering but perhaps not. After all my objective is just to > capture the digital video stream and burn it to a CD or DVD. If it is just to capture and not to capture and encode/transcode on the fly, an AthlonXP 1800+ (1.5GHz) is

Re: Seeking CPU Recomendations

2007-01-01 Thread Hans du Plooy
On Mon, 2007-01-01 at 14:39 -0500, Marty wrote: > I recommend at least 1G of DDR SDRAM, which KX400 fully > supports, but may not fully utilized by the 1800+. Why would the CPU speed limit the amount of memory you can use? If the motherboard can handle 3GB, the CPU will handle 3GB. Hans -- T

Re: Seeking CPU Recomendations

2007-01-01 Thread Douglas Tutty
On Mon, Jan 01, 2007 at 01:29:55PM -0600, Hugo Vanwoerkom wrote: > Thomas H. George wrote: > >On Mon, Jan 01, 2007 at 11:05:57AM -0600, Hugo Vanwoerkom wrote: > >>Thomas H. George wrote: > >>>Until now my Athlon XP 1800+ has been adequate for everything I do. Now > >>>I want to capture digital vi

Re: Seeking CPU Recomendations

2007-01-01 Thread Marty
Thomas H. George wrote: On Mon, Jan 01, 2007 at 11:05:57AM -0600, Hugo Vanwoerkom wrote: Thomas H. George wrote: >Until now my Athlon XP 1800+ has been adequate for everything I do. Now >I want to capture digital video from my video camera and burn it on CD's >or DVD's. I am using the 1800+

Re: Seeking CPU Recomendations

2007-01-01 Thread Hugo Vanwoerkom
Thomas H. George wrote: On Mon, Jan 01, 2007 at 11:05:57AM -0600, Hugo Vanwoerkom wrote: Thomas H. George wrote: Until now my Athlon XP 1800+ has been adequate for everything I do. Now I want to capture digital video from my video camera and burn it on CD's or DVD's. I tried reading the deb

Re: Seeking CPU Recomendations

2007-01-01 Thread Thomas H. George
On Mon, Jan 01, 2007 at 11:05:57AM -0600, Hugo Vanwoerkom wrote: > Thomas H. George wrote: > >Until now my Athlon XP 1800+ has been adequate for everything I do. Now > >I want to capture digital video from my video camera and burn it on CD's > >or DVD's. > > > >I tried reading the debian-user ar

Re: Seeking CPU Recomendations

2007-01-01 Thread Roberto C. Sanchez
On Mon, Jan 01, 2007 at 11:45:33AM -0500, Thomas H. George wrote: > Until now my Athlon XP 1800+ has been adequate for everything I do. Now > I want to capture digital video from my video camera and burn it on CD's > or DVD's. > Have you tried video capture and CD/DVD burning with your current

Re: Seeking CPU Recomendations

2007-01-01 Thread Hugo Vanwoerkom
Thomas H. George wrote: Until now my Athlon XP 1800+ has been adequate for everything I do. Now I want to capture digital video from my video camera and burn it on CD's or DVD's. I tried reading the debian-user archives by subject but they are so extensive it is slow going. Perhaps there is

Seeking CPU Recomendations

2007-01-01 Thread Thomas H. George
Until now my Athlon XP 1800+ has been adequate for everything I do. Now I want to capture digital video from my video camera and burn it on CD's or DVD's. I tried reading the debian-user archives by subject but they are so extensive it is slow going. Perhaps there is a better way to search t