Recent content by jackinbox

Thanks for the help!

I got advice on this board back in 2005 and have been running that system ever since. I'm way behind the times now and feel it's time to upgrade. The System I have now is running on an Asus A8V-Deluxe mobo with an Athlon Socket 939 CPU (I think it's Venice or San Diego) with 1GB ram. I have a...

Great...thanks for the help everyone! I just ordered the Compucase from Directron. I think that's exactly what I need. I'll need to replace the power supply though as I don't believe 300W will support what I am building: Athlon 64 3000+ Asus A8V Mobo 2 Maxtor 120G HDs Aopen 1648 DVD-ROM...

A friend of mine recommended the Antex SLK3700 case for my Asus A8V Deluxe Motherboard and Athlon 64 processor. I like the case except I don't think I could deal with having to open a door to get to the optical drives. Is there anything else out there in this price range that doesn't have the...

Michael, Thanks for the info. Right now I'm mostly using Cinema Craft Encoder. It normally takes me about 8 hours to convert 2 hours of AVI to MPEG 2 with my P3. It'll probably be a few weeks before I will be in the market for a processor anyway. I'm going to go ahead and buy the...

OK. I wasn't sure if the dual-core would be much of an improvement for video encoding. So I can go ahead and buy the Asus mobo and just wait until this summer to get the processor, right? The dual-core Athlon will work in this mobo if I'm understanding correctly?

I do a lot of video encoding and transcoding and thus it's time for me to upgrade my old 1.33ghz Celeron system. It's way too slow. People have recommended to me the following: Asus A8V-E Deluxe Athlon 64 3000 939 pin Another friend thought that I'd get much better encoding results...