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Actually I think you gave great advice. Note buried in my hasty reply was a mention of the XP2500 as possibly a better alternative.
The dual memory stuff on the Nforce2s is more hype than reality (IMO). In fact, although I have two sticks of 256 Hyper-X, I run them in the standard slots because I get a little more solid fsb. That could just be my MB, as many say you can get a dab more when running in dual mode. I will play more with that soon.
As you both suggested, given the cheaper prices of good DVD recorders, I am not so sure svcds are near kin to dinosaurs anyway.
One thing is for certain. Encoding is about both CPU speed and Memory bandwidth and is one area where going Intel (if you can afford it) may well make a somewhat noticable difference. Twice as much dough for, I am guessing of the top of my head, 10 % better speed. That trade off doesn't appeal to my budget but may well do so to somebody else.
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