What is the best mobo for P3 1Gig & Video editing

[wizz]

I need a solution fast. Got an RT2K, and lots of DVCAM material for editing, btu, i need to upgrade my P3 500 system.

Here's what i want.

P3 1Gig so i need a new mobo, one that is reliable and easy to set up.

256 or 512 of Ram.

60 Gig ATA 100 hard disk.

and finally what O/S 98SE or WinME??? not sure how easy it would be to configure Win 2000 for stability.

Any suggestions???


Tony

[Dr Mordrid]

First of all you don't need to configure Win2K for "stability". It has gobs of that out of the box. Also is uses resources in a MUCH more efficient manner than Win9x or (YECH!!) WinME, so hacks are largely not necessary.

You can benefit from disabling some Win2K's background services, but this isn't too hard and the Win2K sites have gobs of info on it.

WinME causes more problems than it fixes by breaking many working Win9x drivers. I'd stay with Win98SE before loading in that abomination.

That said, I'd either go with a TBird board that uses an AMD Northbridge OR find a GOOD BX board. I'd avoid boards that use the VIA/Apollo Northbridge chips like the plague.

In my experience the RT-2000 likes the Asus P3B-F and CUBX, but the BX chipped Soyos also seem to be good. At least the P3B-F can handle the 1ghz PIII's that use a 100mhz bus.

Not in my experience are the i815 boards. However the 3.0 MEGApack will fully support these so if you get a good one (Asus, Soyo etc.) you should be in good shape.

Regardless of the board you get check for BIOS updates so you have the latest Win2K specific microcode. This can be critical.

Dr. Mordrid


[This message has been edited by Dr Mordrid (edited 17 April 2001).]