Type of Motherboards??

[Quvix]

I was just curious on experienced people on what would be the ideal motherboard to use for video capturing, what kind of chipsets should be used and what should not be used? any suggestions greatly appreciated....

[Sefy]

Well, i can't cover all, but i'll give you two mainboards for the AMD platform which have impressed me alot with their compatibility and stability, both are from EPoX, they are very cheap and offer best value for money i've seen:

SDRAM - EPoX 8KTA3(all variations including + and Pro versions)
DDR RAM - EPoX 8KHA(all variations including the + and the L version)

Those two EPoX boards have won many awards, and the EPoX support is very fast too!

[zzyzzx]

Just avoid any MB with VIA chipsets and you should be OK.

[kc5hwb]

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[fewy24]

The best motherboard to get would be the Soyo K7V Dragon Plus, it has a KY266A chipset, I got mine a few days ago and put a athlon xp2000 in it, its ideal for video capturing

[mschark]

I don't recommend the SOYO Dragon+. I just built a PC for a friend to do DV editing. We used this board based on tons of great reviews. Come to find out this it has alot of issue with PCI card placement, IRQ's, Picky about RAM, etc. I looked on a VIA forum and found a vast number of users with problems. Do a search and you'll be shocked.

We had a few problems and we were able to tweak the system by placing the Firewire card on the last PCI slot and also had to turn the RAM speed down to 100mhz to get the machine stable.

I was going to get one for myself until I worked with this one.

My 2cents

[mikerios]

Oddly enough I use the Soyo Dragon Plus P-4s Ultra with the SIS645 chipset,iNTEL P4 2 Ghz, using the DDR PC2700 ( 333 mhz ) memory. It is my video rig and am having a great time with it. I have 512 Mb of ram on board, and 160 Gb on the raid 0 ( ata 100 drives 7200 rpm ) and another 120 for general pupose ( plus it has a pioneer 115 for dvd ripping, and an a03 for dvd burning ), my other rig is also set up for video - Abit SAR6, Intel 815 chipset ( solano ) iNTEL P3-933, 512 Mb ram ( maxed out for 815 chipset ) 160 Gb raid0 plus another 120 gb for general use. Both system are prety much loaded up PCI card wise ect with no conflicts among IRQs ect, both run Windows 2000 SP2.

[Sulik]

I recently got a MSI 845 Ultra (DDR) with P4 1.8A, and both performance and reliability have been great. I higly recommend it over VIA-based P4 motherboards.

[GeekFunk]

I have a system built around the MSI K7T266 Pro2-RU and the AMD Athlon XP processor.

The motherboard uses the VIA KT266A chipset, which is by far the most popular and stable chipsets for AMD processors. The MSI model I have comes with an on board Promise IDE RAID controller and the NEC USB 2.0 controller. The RAID controller supports RAID 0 and RAID 1 IDE hard drive arrays. In the RAID 0 array, the transfer speed of two ATA100 hard drives is nearly doubled, which very good for doing video and audio work.

The four USB 2.0 ports are combined with four USB 1.1 ports. USB 2.0 standard supports transfer speeds up to 400 MB/s whereas the older USB 1.1 is rated at a maximum of 12 MB/s.

According to AMD, an Athlon XP 1600+ processor (1.4 GHz) performs as good as or better than a 1.6 GHz Intel Pentium 4. I've seen benchmarks that show that the Athlon XP 1600+ performs as fast as a 2.0 GHz Intel P4. So, these are mighty pieces indeed.

Add a Sound Blaster Audigy sound card, you will have an excellent video and audio multimedia prosumer box that has a 1394 Firewire port for digital video input and output.

[jerets]

ya im having some trouble w/ my ati all in wonder128 card and my SoundBlaster Gamer card on my Gigabyte GA-7dxr+:

http://www.gigabyte.com.tw/products/7dxr+.htm

on win2000, but hopefully things will work out :-/
the motherboard uses a VIA 686B chipset
^any1 ever have to fix problems w/ a simular setup?

[Nelson37]

I have 2 AMD's w/AIW 128, both VIA chipsets, working reliably, one on XP, one on win98. The Soundblaster problems many people report, IMO, are related to the IRQ demands of the sound card rather than the chipset.
You want the fastest frontside bus speed you can get, RAID is a plus also, and consider USB 2.0 support for other peripherals.

[spiderman2k1]

if you get a AMD board get the VIA chip set "266A" I know I have had a ECS sis board and the dazzle 2 did not work. Yes old Via chip set are buggy with some thing's but that goes for SIS and ALI I use the
"MSI K7T266 Pro2" I have the one with raid the sell the same board with out raid. I have no lips sync problem with my dazzle 2 or my ALL IN WONDER card and i use soundblaster 5.1 no problem's One thing with capture the dazzle work best in window's 2000