I need advise - dropped frames

[timcs]

I am unsure whether this is a hardware or software issue at the moment.

I have a Creative 3d personal cinema card and recently I have upgrade my PC to a Althon XP 2100+ 1.8ghz with 512mb DDR which runs off a MCI 6590 KT4 Ultra motherboard.

The video card spec is as follows:

64MB GeForce2™ MX400™
200MHz core clock
2nd-generation T&L Engines
800M texel Fill Rate
>20M triangles/sec through T&L and Setup
2.7GB/sec Memory Bandwidth
AGP 4X support, with Fast Writes

In the BIOS I have the following AGP settings

AGP Mode : 4x
AGP Fast Write : Enabled
AGP Aperture has been set to both : 128mb and 256mb
AGP Master 1 W/S Write isabled
AGP Master 1 W/S Read isabled
AGP Read Synchronization : Disabled


I would have thought that this spec of PC would allow me to capture video through either composite or S -Video at the DVD PAL setting which is MPEG-2 format.
Capture size : (720 x 576 )
Video bitrate : 6400 kbit/sec
Audio bitrate : 224 kbit/sec
Total bitrate : 6817 kbit/sec
Total record time : 314 minutes
File split size : 4063 MBytes.

However when I watch the capture video I notice that there are moments when the video pauses or has a ghost out line around the moving object and this indicates dropped frames to me (please correct me if I am wrong).

My Hard drive that I am using is an IBM Deskstar 60gb 7200rpm and this drive is only used for capturing.

My OS is Windows 2000 , my version of the wdm driver is 1.10, WinDVR is 1.8 B018.20C1F, the version for the video driver is 3.0.8.2 and DirectX is 8.1

Can any please advise to why this is happening on (what I think) is a fairly high spec PC.

I find help here more useful than creative them selves even though they made the card (or re badged it )

[timcs]

I might have found the reason for this but I want to make sure that this could be the answer.

Not ever putting an Althon XP together before I think I have set the FSB too high. The motherboard (MSI) website says that the FSB should be 133 and the ratio to be 13. Well egg on face because I set it to 266 with the ratio as auto. So I hope that this might have cured it but I wondered if doing such a thing would effect the CPU to the extent of dropping or pausing frames.