Video Card Recommendation

phil19934 · Post by **phil19934** » Sat Sep 04, 2004 8:34 am

Hi.
I want to take all my Hi8 video and convert it to DVD. My computer is a Dell Dimension XPS 733r (Pen III, 733 MHz, 256 MB RAMBUS). My computer currently has a 32 MB 4x AGP NVIDA geFORCE. I will be getting a new system in the not so near future, so I don't want to spend too much. I wanted to upgrade the card, so I figured I'd get one with capture capability. I do not need/want any TV out. I play some games, but I think this computer is too slow to play many of the new ones anyway. Any suggestions? Thanks.

Phil

Kyle · Post by **Kyle** » Sun Sep 05, 2004 3:03 am

I'd say a Radeon 9800 Pro and a PCI capture card. Get the best of both worlds for same price as say an AIW. Then move your cards to the new system when you get it, don't pay extra for a new card in the new system.

Cheesehead · Post by **Cheesehead** » Sun Sep 05, 2004 9:15 am

I would go for a Radeon 9200, or the lower-powered 9200 SE. Both run pretty well, and you can't beat the price of 50$ at NewEgg. You do'nt have much RAM, though, so a bit more memory might give you an even larger speed boost.
If you're getting a new system, forget about moving the cards-you'll probbably have a PCI express system that can't use them. Regardless of what you get, I would stay FAR AWAY from Dell. Because they use proprietary power supplies, they're very hard to upgrade, and they're famous for using slow hard drives and RAM. Gateway and Emachines are also pretty bad. I would go for an ABS computer, or build one yourself.

loop2kil · Post by **loop2kil** » Sun Sep 05, 2004 9:27 am

the happauge pvr250 is a nice hardware based capture card which will work great in ur current setup without straining ur system for capping. then i would just get a seperate new video card if u need it for games.

phil19934 · Post by **phil19934** » Mon Sep 06, 2004 4:56 pm

Is it better to get more ram on the video card, or get a faster engine? Thanks.

Phil

Kyle · Post by **Kyle** » Mon Sep 06, 2004 6:47 pm

phil19934 wrote:Is it better to get more ram on the video card, or get a faster engine? Thanks.

Phil

It's all the core chip, 128MB of DDR is enough right now, 256 is good but only if you have a 9800 or faster.

phil19934 · Post by **phil19934** » Mon Sep 06, 2004 9:05 pm

Thanks!

Phil

zooner · Post by **zooner** » Mon Sep 06, 2004 10:25 pm

here is what you want.

canopus advc100

or

http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?Vi ... 79542&rd=1

nothing works better for the cost and your slower system will not have any real affect on the performance. (need more ram though if you want to work with the video)