Please help with Upgrade decision

[Ghoulardi]

Hi All, I hope you all can help me. When trying to do a video
capture I drop frames, so I want to upgrade some of my
hardware. I currently have an Athlon 1gig, Radeon VIVO 64DDR,
256m memory, 100 Gig storage (1- 40, 2- 30 Gig drives), Abit
KT7A MB, TDK/Plextor CDRW, and a toshiba DVD-rom.
What would be my best upgrade choice? an AMD XP 2000+?
a new ASUS A7V333 MB w/raid & 256M and my current 1gig Athlon?
Or just get the digital video creator II or ADS instant DVD (or what
ever it's called).

Please help me on this, and Thanks.

Ghoulardi

[resnullius]

well a raid card might help depending on your harddrive speed if they're ta66 or lower tho forget about it get a new hard drive with a raid card.

[zzyzzx]

I would think that what you have already is more then enough to not drop frames. Exactly whay resolution. frame rate, and compression are you currently using?

[Ghoulardi]

I tried all different settings and just finally gave up.
I'm going to put together a celeron 400 that I have
laying around in pices and move my E-mail to that
as well as Kazaa and get everything off this computer
and try again.
I have an ata 66 digital research raid card and the 2 - 30
gig drives that I can try, but I'll have to use either WinME
or Win2k for that.

Ghoulardi

[resnullius]

ata66 on a raid should be plenty. What format and size are you trying to capture?

[Ghoulardi]

I've tried all the various sizes and formats. I figured if I could get good
results from one than I could convert it later. So Like I mentioned
earlier, I'll move e-mail and other stuff to another computer and then
tweak and peak and format and see if I can't get it to work. If not then
I'll start upgrading. The new pinnacle deluxe looks good right now.