Best mother board for divx 4.xx encoding

[cypher_soundz]

I'm thinking of upgrading to a AMD XP 1800 (1.533ghz) processor but i was wondering what the best mother board is? i have a via chip set at the mo' on my 650mhz duron , i am aiming at £100 or less for the mother board .

[khp]

Take a look at the latest MB comparisons at THG

http://www6.tomshardware.com/mainboard/02q1/020220/index.html

http://www6.tomshardware.com/mainboard/01q4/011126/index.html

Both include speed test in Xmpeg.

[cypher_soundz]

Thanx for that link it was very educational!!! it looks like im going to get the VIA KT333 chip set , probably on the Gigabyte GA-7VRXP board! looks like i will have to buy DDR ram :(:( ...well i supose it is faster but i just aint got the money :(
can any one tell me what RAID is?? is it just the name of a board? it is kinda late and i am probably being dumb...

[khp]

Don't be unhappy about buying DDR RAM,it should give you a nice speed boost :).

RAID is short for Redundant Array of Independens Disks.

The Gigabyte GA-7VRXP supports RAID mode 0 and 1.

Mode 0 is known as striping which means that the data will be stored in small chunks on alternating drivers. This means faster reading and writing.

Mode 1 is known as mirroring this means that all data will be dublicated on a second drive. Which gives you better data security.

Ofcause you will need 2 identical drives for this to work.

[theReal]

Don't be unhappy about buying DDR RAM,it should give you a nice speed boostVery true. And, don't forget to buy really good RAM.
Buying potentially bad no-name RAM can make your good motherboard uselesss. With DDR RAM more than with any other RAM type before, you should buy the best you can get to be happy with it (and run it in CAS2 timings).

btw. I don't mean you need registered ECC RAM, you really don't need that - I only mean you should not buy no-name stuff to save a few bucks.

[cypher_soundz]

cool thanx for the help
im lookngi in to ddr ram and cheep good places to buy it from . looks like i will have to wait a week or two , so i can aford my 512 of ddr ram.