Video Card, Motherboard, Processor

I am currently looking to upgrade my current system. I have a 1.1g celeron
512 megs ram and an All In Wonder 7500.

If your choices are limited to the following site, what combination of
motherboard,processor, and video card give me a good dvd quality recording
at the best price. The celron is just not quite powerful enough to pull off
a DVD quality recording.

http://www.avalonsoftware.com/pricelist.asp

Thanks

Over Priced - Go to www.newegg.com

"Andrew" <> wrote in message
news:3v0Wc.98489$...
> I am currently looking to upgrade my current system. I have a 1.1g
celeron
> 512 megs ram and an All In Wonder 7500.
>
> If your choices are limited to the following site, what combination of
> motherboard,processor, and video card give me a good dvd quality recording
> at the best price. The celron is just not quite powerful enough to pull
off
> a DVD quality recording.
>
> http://www.avalonsoftware.com/pricelist.asp
>
> Thanks
>
>

This is a store up the street, prices are in Candian dollars, so I won't be
buying off a website. Also, when I shop around at various computer stores
here they carry a similar line when I look for better pricing.

Thanks

> Over Priced - Go to www.newegg.com
> >
> > http://www.avalonsoftware.com/pricelist.asp
> >
>

ASUS A7N8X-E DELUXE MOTHERBOARD
AMD Athlon XP 2600+ 333FSB Retail
DDR400 MEMORY 512MB PC3200
ASUS RADEON 9550 128MB TV/DVI

Here is what I chose at a budget price.


"Andrew" <> wrote in message
news:3v0Wc.98489$...
> I am currently looking to upgrade my current system. I have a 1.1g
celeron
> 512 megs ram and an All In Wonder 7500.
>
> If your choices are limited to the following site, what combination of
> motherboard,processor, and video card give me a good dvd quality recording
> at the best price. The celron is just not quite powerful enough to pull
off
> a DVD quality recording.
>
> http://www.avalonsoftware.com/pricelist.asp
>
> Thanks
>
>

The ASUS RADEON 9550 128MB TV/DVI does not appear to have a TV tuner which
is why I have the ATI All-in-wonder 7500 and was looking at the ati all in
wonder 9600 128mb AGP. Is there a better budget choice with equivalent
quality? Maybe I would be better off with seperate tuner and video cards?

> ASUS A7N8X-E DELUXE MOTHERBOARD
> AMD Athlon XP 2600+ 333FSB Retail
> DDR400 MEMORY 512MB PC3200
> ASUS RADEON 9550 128MB TV/DVI
>
> Here is what I chose at a budget price.
>
>
> "Andrew" <> wrote in message
> news:3v0Wc.98489$...
> > I am currently looking to upgrade my current system. I have a 1.1g
> celeron
> > 512 megs ram and an All In Wonder 7500.
> >
> > If your choices are limited to the following site, what combination of
> > motherboard,processor, and video card give me a good dvd quality
recording
> > at the best price. The celron is just not quite powerful enough to pull
> off
> > a DVD quality recording.
> >
> > http://www.avalonsoftware.com/pricelist.asp
> >
> > Thanks
> >
> >
>
>

On Sun, 22 Aug 2004 12:59:02 GMT, "Andrew" <> wrote:

>This is a store up the street, prices are in Candian dollars, so I won't be
>buying off a website. Also, when I shop around at various computer stores
>here they carry a similar line when I look for better pricing.
>
>Thanks
>
>> Over Priced - Go to www.newegg.com
>> >
>> > http://www.avalonsoftware.com/pricelist.asp
>> >
>>
>

It seems to me that this web site ell it stuff way over the selling price in commons store in
canada.

http://www.meilleursprix.ca/list-pro...dproduct=49457
check out the xp 64 3400+

vs
http://www.avalonsoftware.com/pricel...cat=processors

"Andrew" <> wrote in
news:Xh5Wc.98619$:

> The ASUS RADEON 9550 128MB TV/DVI does not appear to have a TV tuner
> which is why I have the ATI All-in-wonder 7500 and was looking at the
> ati all in wonder 9600 128mb AGP. Is there a better budget choice with
> equivalent quality? Maybe I would be better off with seperate tuner
> and video cards?

hey buddy

i live in toronto, just put together a new system (went for an
AsusP4P800S board @ $100, P4 2.8E processor @ $230 or something). i've
had All-In-Wonder cards since they came out, and up until last week had
the original 32MB Radeon AIW.

i went with the ATI 9600 All-In-Wonder (not Pro, not XT).... i can say
that i'm *totally* thrilled with it. videocapture is perfect even at
full screen, while i'm running other applications. two-monitor-output
is something i'd been waiting for forever... i've always been hesitant
about adding a second video card to my system for the second monitor
because of the driver horror stories i heard.... the fact that this card
runs two CRT monitors out of the box was a big plus (though it does NOT
have DVI out if you care).... tv quality is clearly superior to my old
AIW card.

i am simply loving my 9600AIW. i'm not into doom3, but I play a lot of
sports games and run them at close to max settings on a high
resolution... totally thrilled.... and at a price of $239, there's no
way i could have picked a better card. plus, it doesn't have or require
a fan, so it's a totally silent addition to yr system, and you'll never
have to junk the card because the fan went screwy.

keep in mind that video-editing, DVD production, video processing, video
capturing, etc. depends on your processor and RAM, *not* your video
card, but as per the other AIW cards, you get composite, cable, and s-
video inputs. if you want firewire, you'll have to get a PCI Firewire
card.

loving the 9600AIW. LOVING IT!!!!

This is one of the more painful parts of posting to a newsgroup. While I do
appreciate you looking for a better price, please don't. You are pointing
out places no where close to newfoundland and when I buy something I like to
drop by the store and get it myself.

What I am looking for is a minimal system to produce good dvd's from the tv
tuner . Stores here carry pretty much the same brands and I will bargain
hunt later for the best price once determining the general direction I am
headed with processor, motherboard and video card. Not even interested in
RAM, plan on starting with 1gig for the time being.
>
> It seems to me that this web site ell it stuff way over the selling price
in commons store in
> canada.
>
> http://www.meilleursprix.ca/list-pro...dproduct=49457
> check out the xp 64 3400+
>
> vs
> http://www.avalonsoftware.com/pricel...cat=processors

Andrew
I understand your dilema..I live in a Small BC town with only one computer
dealer and the closest large city is 2-2/12 hours away.
So this is what I do..........I spec every part of the system and then ask for
quotes from various stores...online and off line.
I take this quote to my local store and ask them to explain why they are higher
in price.They respond by saying online stores less overhead,etc etc but in the
end by being persistant but friendly they do come down in price.
I get the system I want at a price I can afford with local service.
You just have to do the homework and decide what you want and how much your
willing to spend.There are quite a few online sellers that let you build and
price a system.
I am quite happy with my 9600 pro video card and Hauppage 250 PCI TV card with
Snapstream Software.This works exceptionally well on myASUS A7N8X del ver 2.0
mobo with 1024 DDR 3200 ram .I picked this board because it has onboard 5.1
sound,2 network cards USB2.0 plus firewire,SATA HD drive plus space for 4 more
drives...either HD or CD or DVD burner or all of them.I run an AMD Barton 2500
chip slightly OC'd to actually run at 2500 insysnc with the ram speed.
Whatever you decide upon there are a lot of choices out there and as soon as you
purchase your system something better hits the
marketplace...................good luck
peter
"Andrew" <> wrote in message
news:qM0Wc.98494$...
> This is a store up the street, prices are in Candian dollars, so I won't be
> buying off a website. Also, when I shop around at various computer stores
> here they carry a similar line when I look for better pricing.
>
> Thanks
>
>> Over Priced - Go to www.newegg.com
>> >
>> > http://www.avalonsoftware.com/pricelist.asp
>> >
>>
>
>

OK so back to the question......
athlonXP +2800, Asus a7n8x deluxe, 1 Gig (in a pair of 512mg), a dc10
capture card or Hauppauge PCI TV capture card, and a pair of 80gb hard
drives set in raid 0 (with settings of AV), and a 20gb+ hd for your os. You
may get away with using your aiw7500 for capture, however a dedicated card
with hardware encoding will give you the best results. Stick with AMD
processor because ALL benchmarks tend to give AMD the big lead in media
encoding. The raid array will give you the ability to keep up with and
speed up the encoding process. The encoding can take hours depending on
file size, so every little bit helps. I've been running the above setup just
for AV encoding and I get the best possible DVD quality, for the bucks
spent.
"Chastiza" <> wrote in message
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> Over Priced - Go to www.newegg.com
>
> "Andrew" <> wrote in message
> news:3v0Wc.98489$...
> > I am currently looking to upgrade my current system. I have a 1.1g
> celeron
> > 512 megs ram and an All In Wonder 7500.
> >
> > If your choices are limited to the following site, what combination of
> > motherboard,processor, and video card give me a good dvd quality
recording
> > at the best price. The celron is just not quite powerful enough to pull
> off
> > a DVD quality recording.
> >
> > http://www.avalonsoftware.com/pricelist.asp
> >
> > Thanks
> >
> >
>
>