Posted by Martin Heffels on 11/04/07 07:10

On Sat, 3 Nov 2007 17:40:15 -0700, "Richard Crowley" <rcrowley@xp7rt.net>
wrote:

><bendespain@gmail.com> wrote ...
>>
>> Here's a little background on my system.
>>
>> OS: Vista Ultimate
>> Processor: AMD Athlon 64 3200+
>> RAM: 2Gigs in Dual Mode
>> HD: 300 Gig 7200 SATA
>> Video: Nvidia GeForce 8600GT (256 GDDR3)
>
>You have just the one hard drive?
>You have the video AND the operating system and programs
>etc, etc. all on the same hard drive? (Partitioning doesn't count)

I have a fairly similar system, however I have a dedicated RAID-0 for my
video. I can easily playback HDV on my Avid in "medium". Also if I play
back a raw M2t-file with Media Player Classic, this goes without a hitch.
So, it is possible on your system, but only very limited.

>Assuming you have reasonably optimized the system by
>not running lots of junk in the background. Note that
>lots of the eye-candy features of Vista count as useless
>junk that just chew up precious CPU cycles with no real
>benefit.

Did you install the Vista hotfixes for Nvidia cards? (released in
September).

>Assuming you also know that the Intel Core 2 Duo and
>Quad CPUs beat the sox off anything from AMD.

For now ;-) The new announced AMD's are supposed to change this, again.
However, upgrading to, say a Core 2 Duo 6650, will certainly improve
performance a bit :-)

cheers

-martin-
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