Need some advise

[brashquido]

Hi All,

I'm currently building a new PC specifically for doing DVD authoring, video editing and the like. I thought I was decided on what motherboard to get, and decided on the GIGABYTE GA-7VRXP DDR Socket A. Now that I've got it, it appears that the onboard sound has no inputs/outputs for Dolby Digital at all. I'm now hoping I can eturn it for exchange.

What I want in the motherboard for this machine is;

VIA KT333 / VIA VT8233A Chipset

10/100MB LAN

Digital Sound card with SPDIF in and out

ATA-133 RAID 0,1,0+1

USB 1 & 2

Firewire

Basically I want everything that is on the ABIT AT7. Is this motherboard a good choice? What would you recommend? Any input would be great.

 

[VotTak]

You need the system for like video editing and you are picking the AMD? That is not the best choice you are trying to make. When you are comparing AMD and P4 the only area where AMD did not beat Intel is video editing and so.
You might want to reconsider and go for P4 Northwood.
Just my 2 pennies

 

[lsman]

Originally posted by: VotTak
You need the system for like video editing and you are picking the AMD? That is not the best choice you are trying to make. When you are comparing AMD and P4 the only area where AMD did not beat Intel is video editing and so.
You might want to reconsider and go for P4 Northwood.
Just my 2 pennies

fact in the price:
from pricewatch.com, cpu price
Athlon XP 2100 $195 Pentium 4 1.9G $204
Athlon XP 2000 $153 Pentum 4 1.8G $165

given that XP, you need to buy a HSF. While i will say XP 2100 beat P4 1.9G, i don't know how overclock will affect both system in terms of performance. The fact that some P4 1.6 can overclock to over 2G tell you that P4 has more room to OC. Also note that the some software help P4 to get good points because they have special optimization to P4's SSE (like Divx 4.11). Unless more AMD active effort with those software co. to help them with optimization, i will think Intel will always get a upper hand.


brashquido, why don't you tell us what price range you have for CPU?
BTW, i think ABIT generally are ok.

 

[brashquido]

I've actually already got my CPU (XP 2100+) and I've opened the packaging, so I won't be able to get it exchanged now.

I went AMD because I wanted to keep the costs down as I'll be buying a pioneer DVR-A04, and a Pinnacle Studio Deluxe which are about $950, and $800 Australian respectively. Is there a big performance difference between AMD and Intel in these areas?