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juliox
13th May 2004, 04:42
Hi all, last year i startted making well building my first pc i tougth it would be the fastets thing with out whels... but then again the 1k dint get me what i wanted. i ended up with a 500gb 7200rpm 2.6ghz p4 256 FBS or it was 512 i cant rember the thing is... my pc is no so grate. now i finally got a jobe ( almost 17 ) and i'm making about 120 a week wich is not so bad for me ><. now i want to make a computer and a fast one. So i came here to see if any of you can give me your opinions and back them up with faqs.

first what procesor intel or amd? ( im looking for a proessor that is less than 400 dollars, you know not the newest ones. )

2 what mother board? ( a double cpu motherboard would be nice that must make my encoding faster rigth?, i want one less than 400 dollars )

then what dvd rw?, i have a hi-val ( yea the cheap ass burner >< ) burns at 4x -+ but only reads at 4x ( the box says 12 damn it ><) now that made me mad ( can some one explain why it only reads at 4x? )

then what dvd rom ( maybe is beter to have a dvd rom to read will it make it faster than 4x? i hope so ><)

and thats it. o maybe you can recomen a good video card that encondes fast? or atleast kiks ass when playing games ( under 600 dollars )

the whole computer must be under 3k and should encod faster than my p4 2.6 much faster >< or atleast %20 faster, and it MUST read faster atleast 8x. well i hope any off you can take a minute or tow and tell me what should i do, i tougth i knew about computers ( i fix them, wel use to any how ) but amd is making me crazy people say an amd 3500+ is faster and beter than a p4 3.2 when the amd is only 2.2, i guess ghz are not everithing. thank you so much for your opinions they are priceless :)!!!

happy mothers day to all the womans out there that have or will have kids!! ( and the ones that forgot to take the pill or put the pach on :devil: haha im joking... thats a mean thing to say now that i think about it :p )

PD: my english bites but if your put it in microsoft word i think you will get some thing that you can understand :P thx again

smiller667
13th May 2004, 13:10
Mothers day was last weekend. Wrong forum, btw.

I am not in the market shopping for a new pc, just a few hints: you would want sth. like a 50% speed increase, anything below that is not worth spending any money imo.

A video card (you are talking about your graphics adapter, correct?) won't speed up encoding (maybe the preview could be accelerated).

Slogra
13th May 2004, 14:05
[i]then what dvd rw?, i have a hi-val ( yea the cheap ass burner >< ) burns at 4x -+ but only reads at 4x ( the box says 12 damn it ><) now that made me mad ( can some one explain why it only reads at 4x? )
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I have a Pioneer A106 and i had to flash it to unlock the full read speed of DVD. I guess it read slowly to disencourage DVD copying. Maybe your all DVD burners have this kind of limiting nowadays.

Angelus
13th May 2004, 16:13
Rather than explain everything, check out Extreme Tech:

http://www.extremetech.com/

They have a whole bunch of info on ALL computer components and have sample computers with all the specs that they built themselves. I built my computer reading their guides and this is the fastest PC I've ever had.

juliox
13th May 2004, 16:39
thanks i will check out the website ( o and to the guy that sayd a video card wont make encoding faster, thats not what ati and nvidia say, i cant rember the name of the new card that is coming out but they say is going to make mpg4 encoding faster, my fgriend has a card that makes mpg2 encoding faster. maybe we are talking about a diferent caind of card, maybe they are not cald video card oO? dont know :P! thanks for the answer any way.

lexor
13th May 2004, 18:22
the vid cards that accelerate the encoding, are ATI's X800, and NVidia's 6800 series, but they both cost upward of $400 USD (you won't find that price on them either, it's higher by at least $50) and that's for the base models, the higher end is way more, I don't think $120 a week will get you that.

Soulhunter
13th May 2004, 20:23
You can get a Radeon 9800XT for the price of a 9800Pro 256MB !!!

Just buy a 9800Pro (256MB) model that has the same chip/ram as the 9800XT... ;)

You can get a Sapphire 9800Pro (300€) for this (100€ cheaper than the XT) !!!

Then buy some better cooling (30€) and run the card @ 9800XT specs... :D

Read this (http://www.rojakpot.com/(kjk2nnn5a4jj01eee3lshn55)/default.aspx?location=3&var1=92&var2=0) stuff to get more info !!!


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