It's my POS monitor's fault! Nothing is wrong with the motherboard (ASUS) nor ATI's Radeon. Big apology to both companies for almost smeared your names.
My solution around the problem can be read here:
My solution
Deadmeat,
As you said, Dazzle do not have the hardware codec. DVRaptor cost me around $450 when I bought it a year ago. Now, if you're simply converting avi to mpg, then nothing can really speed it up except raw CPU power. It takes time, and it does take that long.
Hi deadmeat,
I've been doing video editing for 4 years now, since PII-266. In my opinion, dual processors is fairly useless, since programs such as Premiere doesn't really take advantage of the processors. Photoshop is another matter. Video editing is strictly rendering, the more CPU power...
Confirming with basillus:
I have a katmai CPU, tried to oc to 600 Mhz. It's unstable. I don't know if it's really the CPU, or the mb. Speaking of the mb, the onboard HPT UDMA66 is very unstable. So, I'm thinking of tossing it, and upgrade to something else.
To SCSIFreek:
If ASUS A7V133...
Hi all,
Long time lurker, first time post.
I have a PIII 550 (slot 1) and Abit BE6-II, finally throwing my arm in the air tonight and decided to upgrade. But, in the middle of many upgradable solutions, I wonder what's the best option in turns of price / performance / longevity / future...
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