Need advice on Marvel purchase

[Davecane2]

I am considering purchasing a Marvel G400-TV. I currently own an ATI All-in-Wonder. (not pleased with its performance)I have an ABit KA7 w/Athlon 700. 128MB ram, 27Gb harddrive. I primarly capture from a VCR or television, then edit the captures with Adobe Premiere 5.1. Sometimes use the clips for my website. Is this the card I am looking for based on my needs? Any advice or information on its performance, conflicts, likes, dislikes, etc. would be greatly appreciated.
Thanks all, Dave

[Ghydda]

Well, if you're only gonna use it to record from analog sources, and using it's propertary MJPEG-codec, and fancy some casual gaming once in a while, it should fit your bill.

However, if you DO like to game alot of 1st persons shooters, plan to capture DV-material, would like to capture into video formats other than MJPEG, then I would hesitate to recommend it.

It's a great card, no question about it, but it cannot fulfill all whishes.

You could consider cards from FAST. They have some terrible good capturecards, which does not serv as a normal graphics card (thus leaving you the possibility to get more up to date graphics card, say a G800 or a G-F***).

My $0.02

Ghydda

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