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I read with interest the thread “ECS K7S5A and RT2000” from 7 June ‘02. Particularly Dr Mordrids comments on PCI bandwidth being more important in NLE than flashy CPU results (10 June). This is just the kind of info I have been looking for.
Like many people on this site I am hoping to build a system for the RT2500. Although I have built a few systems in the past I understand NLE presents special problems, not least to do with chipset compatibility. At the moment my intention is to go with the MSI 745 Ultra. I wonder where I got that one from?
Now a few of questions I hope someone will be good enough to answer.
As a new boards and chips seem to come out every few days and yesterdays groundbreaker (even by Intel) start to drop in price, is this (in Nov ’02) still the preferred option. The chip I thought should be 2.0 GHz.
Does sharing the IDE channel with a CDRW or DVD not matter if it is DMA capable, I see it often suggested, in the RT manual and by Matrox support? It was always one of the Don’t Do’s. This would mean I would not require a RAID board to use as extra IDE channels.
Does linking the RT2500 with it’s ribbon to one of the Matrox cards make a difference? I could only afford to run to the G550 at this stage and the 3D performance is reputed to be poor. One of my other interests is struggling to understand 3D animation, but video editing would be the main function of the machine. The ATI Radeon 9000 seems to get excellent reviews, is it an option with the RT2500? The dual monitor function would mean buying another CRT and I would rather save towards a DVD writer.
Any comments would be welcome.
Like many people on this site I am hoping to build a system for the RT2500. Although I have built a few systems in the past I understand NLE presents special problems, not least to do with chipset compatibility. At the moment my intention is to go with the MSI 745 Ultra. I wonder where I got that one from?
Now a few of questions I hope someone will be good enough to answer.
As a new boards and chips seem to come out every few days and yesterdays groundbreaker (even by Intel) start to drop in price, is this (in Nov ’02) still the preferred option. The chip I thought should be 2.0 GHz.
Does sharing the IDE channel with a CDRW or DVD not matter if it is DMA capable, I see it often suggested, in the RT manual and by Matrox support? It was always one of the Don’t Do’s. This would mean I would not require a RAID board to use as extra IDE channels.
Does linking the RT2500 with it’s ribbon to one of the Matrox cards make a difference? I could only afford to run to the G550 at this stage and the 3D performance is reputed to be poor. One of my other interests is struggling to understand 3D animation, but video editing would be the main function of the machine. The ATI Radeon 9000 seems to get excellent reviews, is it an option with the RT2500? The dual monitor function would mean buying another CRT and I would rather save towards a DVD writer.
Any comments would be welcome.
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