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themichael · 26th February 2004, 08:59

XP v. 2000:

Having stripped both OSes of all extra services ( www.blackviper.com) and not running anti-virus or firewall programs, 2000Pro out preforms XP. The same hardware and software, out of the box install, all updates, and the same video source. In XP the cpu runs at 80-85%, in 2000 at 60-65%. More dropped frames in XP also. I can capture MPEG2 realtime under 2000. Can't under XP.

As for Celerons:
I used to capture 640x480 using a Win 98 Celeron 400 eMachine with a 5400 rpm 30Gig drive and 196M of PC100 SDRAM. Yes I pushed this poor computer to the wall. Yes I had to turn the video resolution down. Yes I had to turn off my anti-virus and some other "toys" in the system tray, But it worked!

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themichael Registered User Join Date: Mar 2002 Posts: 11	XP v. 2000: Having stripped both OSes of all extra services ( www.blackviper.com) and not running anti-virus or firewall programs, 2000Pro out preforms XP. The same hardware and software, out of the box install, all updates, and the same video source. In XP the cpu runs at 80-85%, in 2000 at 60-65%. More dropped frames in XP also. I can capture MPEG2 realtime under 2000. Can't under XP. As for Celerons: I used to capture 640x480 using a Win 98 Celeron 400 eMachine with a 5400 rpm 30Gig drive and 196M of PC100 SDRAM. Yes I pushed this poor computer to the wall. Yes I had to turn the video resolution down. Yes I had to turn off my anti-virus and some other "toys" in the system tray, But it worked!