Maybe someone knows......

[Dyre]

Hmm i agree that its time for you to upgrade. Lets see, i think your only option is a Coppermine 700 or 800 in a month or two.
As for HD's... I know people with 50 gigs of MP3's! My friend just bought a 40 gig Maxtor UDMA 66! I have 26 gigs and feel on the small side now. I know people that max and bog down their Dual pIII 500 2mb cache Xeon's w/ 2 gig's ram doing this kinda work... Its not unheard of to have this much power. Consider that 5 minutes of broadcast video/audio takes about 2 gigs i think. (Is this about right Genom?)

Go for the CPU right now, it seams the best value. THey are all just jelious. Arent you guys!

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PIII 450 @ 504
generic BX motherboard
G400 MAX : )
Maxtor 13 gig UDMA 33
Maxtor 13 gig UDMA 66
Creative 36x CD-ROM
HP 2x2x6x CD-RW
64 megs PC100 RAM
128 megs PC133 ECC RAM
NetGear 10/100
Soundblaster 32 AWE
Diamond SupraExpress 56k
Logitech Wireless Desktop (best $50 ive ever spent)
1 92mm Sunon Fan
4 80mm Sunon Fan's

[Jorden]

Genom, if you do go for the Coppermine, check, recheck and even recheck again at Asus that the P2B-F can take it, especially the revision mobo you're using right now. It's all fine and dandy when it comes to CuM support through the BIOS, but if you miss the necessary jumpers on the mobo, you're out of luck and can't go higher than a P3-600 orso.

Just some piece of goodmeant advice

Jord.

[Genom]

Dyre: Actually it depends. Uncompressed YUV video clocks in at roughly 21MB/s for NTSC. When rendering, you usually go with uncompressed TGA files, so ya end up with 31MB/s worth of images. As you can see, this fill's up FAST indeed I could have gotten a card that does cinpressed video, but for Chroma keys and other stuff like that need uncompressed dont like MJPEG

Jorden: Your right actually. I thought to check the MB and I'm SOL, as it's an odler P2B and only does 6.5X One of the jumpers is soldered on the MB, so I am going to attempt to install a proper switch on it and see if it works. If not, it gets tossed, and I prolly go for a dualie again. Just still hoping on those win2k drivers.

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Asus P2B-F, P3-450~556, 512MB PC100 8ns SDRAM, G400MAX (yay!) at 160Mhz, Teac 58S CD-R, Toshiba SM-1002 DVD-ROM, Toshiba 40X SCSI CD-ROM, 8.4GB IDE primary drive, 9GB Micropolis Tomahawk UWSCSI, 9GB IBM U2WSCSI, 18GB U2WSCSI Cheetah, Diamond MX300, 3COM 10/100TX, 3COM Gaming Modem, Adaptec 2940U2W

And a partridge in a pear treeeeeeee.

[Genom]

Dyre: Actually it depends. Uncompressed YUV video clocks in at roughly 21MB/s for NTSC. When rendering, you usually go with uncompressed TGA files, so ya end up with 31MB/s worth of images. As you can see, this fill's up FAST indeed I could have gotten a card that does cinpressed video, but for Chroma keys and other stuff like that need uncompressed dont like MJPEG

Jorden: Your right actually. I thought to check the MB and I'm SOL, as it's an odler P2B and only does 6.5X One of the jumpers is soldered on the MB, so I am going to attempt to install a proper switch on it and see if it works. If not, it gets tossed, and I prolly go for a dualie again. Just still hoping on those win2k drivers.

BTW, thanks for the sugestions ya'll


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Asus P2B-F, P3-450~556, 512MB PC100 8ns SDRAM, G400MAX (yay!) at 160Mhz, Teac 58S CD-R, Toshiba SM-1002 DVD-ROM, Toshiba 40X SCSI CD-ROM, 8.4GB IDE primary drive, 9GB Micropolis Tomahawk UWSCSI, 9GB IBM U2WSCSI, 18GB U2WSCSI Cheetah, Diamond MX300, 3COM 10/100TX, 3COM Gaming Modem, Adaptec 2940U2W

And a partridge in a pear treeeeeeee.

[ObiBen]

Hey Genom,

Have you ever considered motherboards from AOpen? The AX6BC line of boards are extremely stable, especially the AX6BC Pro Gold, Pro II, Pro II Millenium Edition. The Pro II and its Millenium edition brother have the necessary 6 PCI slots you're asking for (much like the ABIT BF6), but only 3 DIMM slots. These boards also have excellent support for the Coppermine CPU's.

The AOpen boards have received excellent reviews, and I just love 'em. They cost slightly more, but the increased stability (expecially when you o/c) is a bonus.

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Regards,

Ben

Config: AOPen AX6BC Pro II Millenium, P2 400@450, 128MB PC133 RAM, SB Live!, Netgear 10/100, Adapted 2940U2W SCSI adapter, Seagate Barracuda 4.3GB UW, Quantum Atlas III 9.1GB U2W, Yamaha 4416S writer, Pioneer 36X SCSI CD reader, STB Blackmagic V2 (SLI) - removed after new TurboGL, Matrox G400MAX,
Viewsonic PS790 and G773, Win98SE

[Genom]

Sadly, a MUST is 4 DIMM slots. Thats why I am going to just run a P3B I got for free upgrade, and wait some more for decent i820 or any of gthe new chipset mobo's to come out. I especially am looking for dual CPU boards that run either Athlons or newer P3's

[ObiBen]

Whatever you choose....AMD or Intel, I wish you the best success with your new board and CPU.

For the dual setup, I'd like to try the AOpen DXG Plus. It has the 4 DIMMs that you need (like all dual boards should have), 6...6 PCI slots, and your usual onboard LAN and U2W SCSI.

Enjoy


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Regards,

Ben

Config: AOPen AX6BC Pro II Millenium, P2 400@450, 128MB PC133 RAM, SB Live!, Netgear 10/100, Adapted 2940U2W SCSI adapter, Seagate Barracuda 4.3GB UW, Quantum Atlas III 9.1GB U2W, Yamaha 4416S writer, Pioneer 36X SCSI CD reader, STB Blackmagic V2 (SLI) - removed after new TurboGL, Matrox G400MAX,
Viewsonic PS790 and G773, Win98SE

[Laristan]

I personally use the Asus P2B-DS motherboard with two P3-600s ... this is a great motherboard with many features. The only problem is the 4PCI slots only with 1 hardwired to the AGP slot and slot 4 hardwired to the SCSI controller. The controller can share IRQs without any problems that I have found, but I prefer to have my Matrox G400MAX sitting on its own in the AGP slot with nothing in PCI slot 1.

David