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  1. Member
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    Judge for Yourself

    Let me know what your suggestions are to this system I am about to get.
    I did some research and would like to double check with the pro’s in the business.
    I’m a student so I’m on a budget. It’s the best I can do for now.
    I’m not sure about all the other extras I should be getting , so if you do pls let me know



    Main Uses:

    Able to work in these formats : Mini DV(mainly) and other formats through to VHS

    NLE editing, converiting from firewire to DVD, Mpeg2, DivX and all other encoding conversions, adding 3D and special effects.





    My NLE PC specs:

    Mother Board: Intel® 'Vanguard' 915GL P4 FSB800 Integrated MB, 4xDDR400 (dual)Slots,2xPCI, 1x PCI E x1 Intel High Audio (6 CH), 4x SATA. 1x PATA, 8xUSB, MICRO ATX, Intel Pro 10/100 LAN

    Processor: Intel® Box Pentium-4-630 3.0GHz Pro (LGA775) 2MB OD 800MHz FSB, EM64T –Hyper -Threading

    Video Card:Sparkle Nvidia® GeForce™ 6600GT 128MB DDR3 128Bit PCI-E 16x TV-Out DVI/SLI with VIVO

    Ram: MDT® 1024MB DDR2 Ram 533Mhz FSB Module 240-pin (X2)

    Hard Drive:for video storage- 120Gb Barracuda 7200rpm SATA8Mb Cache
    for windows -80Gb Barracuda 7200rpm SATA 8Mb Cache

    Optical Drive :LITE-ON Dual 16xDVD+/-R, 8x DVD+/-RW, 4x Dual Layer




    Benchmarks:

    Let me know what you guys think of the following averaged times for the following tasks:

    DivX6 from 182MB VOB MPEG-2 source,
    encoded
    720x576 @25 fps = 6min48sec

    Pinnalce 95MB source encoding,
    transitions and 3D rendering
    =2min23sec

    XviD, 182MB VOB MPEG-2 source encoding
    720x576 @25fps =5min28sec


    If there are any other essentials you think I need please let me know.
    I welcome all your opinions on these specs and benchmarks.


    Thank you
    Ben
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  2. contrarian rallynavvie's Avatar
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    I hope you aren't planning to capture VHS through your video card. Get a Canopus ADVC to capture with if you care about quality at all.

    You don't need PC4200 memory for that machine, plain PC3200 will work just fine. In fact I don't even think that chipset supports DDR2 memory. Only reason you'd need that is if you planned on overclocking that chip to 1066 FSB. Bus speeds won't help your encoding speeds but they will help your NLE app. In fact if you're doing a lot of work with Premiere or AfterEffects you may want to look at a dual-core system as those are pretty much ghetto SMP rigs, but they'll work pretty well for that.

    Rest of the rig looks fine. If you want to compare you're better off taking a look through the benchmarking thread stickied to the top of this forum. Try that test and compare to what some of the others have put up.

    NLE is old-school, with the hardware available now you get better results from Premiere and Vegas than what you could with the old Avid systems. Get the all-inclusive Adobe video suite and a copy of TMPGEnc and that's pretty much all you need to buy for software.

    VHS to DVD transfers won't net much business for you. What with all these DVRs that can do it, iDVD on Mac OSX, and all the rest of the consumerized video stuff there's just not much call for that. If you're getting into video I'd concentrate more on getting intimately familiar with MPEG2 and the DVD-spec, and keeping an eye out for the next step in consumer digital video media. If you specialize in that in addition to your video production schooling you'll be golden.
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  3. Your benchmarks are meaningless without the specifics like run-time (of the video), frame rate, and codec settings. For instance there is easily a 10 fold difference between the slowest and fastest Xvid and Divx settings.
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    You're fine, just look at some posters configs (computer detail buttons right beside profile) no need to worry. First you said it's the best you can afford.This is it. You don't want to hear: it sucks, do you? Be happy, some PPL have half of what you have and still anjoy it. Unless you're really into shaving off 2.5 sec. of your encoding time you're wasting your precious time.
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    Three questions:

    1) Why are you buying a PCI-E x16 graphics card when your system doesn't support it? All you have is a solitary x1 slot.

    2) Why are you buying 240pin RAM when all you have is 184 pin slots?

    3) How do you benchmark something that doesn't work with the parts assembled?
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    Actually the 915GL is a mATX board with no onboard video. That single PCI-E slot is an x16 graphics slot.
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    That would have to be the shortest PCI-Ex16 slot I've ever seen and in the oddest of places at the end of the PCI chain. How do you propose adding an x16 card in that slot? Why is there a VGA port sitting next to the solitary serial port and below the LPT port?
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    I'm looking at the wrong one I think, is that the one that uses Intel 900 onboard? There's a few different revisions by country for that board too. That board does not fit with the rest of that stuff at all, you need a better motherboard.
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    Thanks for your input , I really appreciate it.
    I realized my mobo choice was wrong so I'll be getting another model.
    I will think about goin dual.
    The ram 533mhz was too fast but the price was good so I put it down on the list anyway.
    Thanks again for your input guys
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