Help me pick a good video editing video card

[hatman46]

I have a fire wire card and a slow ati agp card for editing digital video.

I am upgrading to an AMD 1.2 GIG 266 Thunderbird and SUS A7A266 W/AUDIO & 256MB DDR PC2100.

While I'm at it I want to upgrade the video card.

I'm considering the ATI Radeon AGP 64M VIVO Video Card.

What comments do you have. I game but I spend more time working with art and photos online and of course digital video which are not polygons.

[hatman46]

Thats and ASUS motherboard sorry I dropped the "A"

[dmm]

Thats a good choice, as is the Matrox G series. I built my fiance a PIV with a Matrox Marvel G450 eTV, and she would never go back to her 32meg ATI All-In-Wonder Radeon DDR.

But keep in mind that the most demanding games she plays is Millionaire and Wheel of Fortune.

Also, though you didnt ask
You may want to consider the ASUS A7M266. It uses the AMD 761 chipset, where the A7A266 uses the Ali chipset. The A7A lacks in performance, badly.

And the FIC AD11 performs just as well as the A7M266 (though less features) but is $50 cheaper than the Asus and it also has onboard audio.

Dave

Scavengers



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[miha76]

I would also consider better MB then A7A266 maybe Epox8K7A it is really great MB, and cheap to.


For video editing maybe you should go for Pinnacle products, here is the link and pick something
http://www.pinnaclesys.de/uk/default.asp

[hatman46]

Well you talked me out of the ASUS A7A

Now I'm looking at the Gigabyte GA-7DX DDR
or APOX 8K7A w/DDR

I am still staying with the Thunderbird 1.2 GB/266.

Any one with experience with these 2 boards.

Also still trying to selct a board to go along with it I use Pinnacles Studio DV with fire wire but I need a much better Video card to go with this system.

[K6-III]

Definitely do Epox 8K7A. I have one and nothing comes close, especially at 175mhz FSB (350mhz effective).

As for the Radeon VIVO for video editing, go ahead, it works great. I use it for basic stuff and it works fine. If you have the money for Matrox RT2000 or RT2500 nothing comes close, unless you have piles and piles of money. Stay away from the Matrox G runner series as matrox has chosen to not support mjpeg support under Win2k, as there were difficulties in driver development. Read up on the fiasco at www.matroxusers.com

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[hatman46]

I finally purchased the EPoX EP-8KHA VIA Apollo KT266 with 1.2 266 ghz CPU 256 Meg DDR and ATI Radeon 64MB DDR.

I am now wondering if I should have purchased the EPoX EP-8K7A AMD® 761 PC1600

I still have a day to change my mind.

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[600R]

I think you should change it m8... the board you have purchased wont accept DDR memory, just SDRAM

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[hatman46]

It actually handles 3 DDR's
see http://www.epox.com/html/english/pro...rd/ep-8kha.asp

Thanks for the feedback

Here is also a review done last month http://www.ocworkbench.com/hardware/...kha/8khap1.htm

Originally posted by 600R:
I think you should change it m8... the board you have purchased wont accept DDR memory, just SDRAM

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