Marvel G400TV and Celerons

[This_Idiot]

I'm using a G400-TV here with a celeron 300a o/c'd to 450 without a problem.

[DrMordrid]

I've been running one of my Marvel G400's on a C466 system since they came out. No problems at all.

Dr. Mordrid

[v0n]

Marvel G400TV and Celerons

I have Marvel G400TV running on dual board with Celeron 500. Since i could not imagine any serious firm releasing video editing/TV kit without NT drivers (Haupagge can do that for years) after discovering there is no capture and tely with Matrox under NT nor Win2K, i'm now stuck to capture in Win98 and after reboot to Win2k do the actual edit in Premiere (dual CPU optimised).
My problem is - I can get very smooth capture with PII 350 or 400, tried it, seen it, works very well, meanwhile using Celeron 500 i can't get stable rate of 25fps even using small window and half quality settings. Is it something with OS, drivers or is it Celeron 500Mhz, being marked whole 150Mhz higher still slower than old but cache rich P2?

v0n

[Captain Marvel]

Yes your right it's not the CPU, its the OS & drivers. The CPU isn't utilized beyond it's capabilities during capture. It's your hardrive's sustained throughput along with your motherboard's IDE controller(ie UDMA) that will determine your maximum sustainable data rate during capture. Your OS and drivers must be optimized for video capture.

[leech]

Or in certain cases (like me) you should have SCSI for video editing. SCSI is the only way to go. Especially if you can fork out the extra dough for a 10,000 RMP 160/M drive. *drool* unfortunately I'm poor, but still have an Ultra Wide SCSI 7200 RPM drive.

[This_Idiot]

So why is SCSI a necessity all of a sudden ?

That may have been true a couple of years back, but certainly isn't now except in extreme conditions