Hi CH
Would you know the brand name and model no. of the motherboard used in your
computer? This usually determines a lot the price and performance.
Regards
Titoy
----- Original Message -----
From: C.H.Ling <chling@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
To: <olympus@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Sent: Thursday, September 20, 2001 12:15 PM
Subject: Re: [OM] aaaaaaah, I'm soooooo weak!!!!!
> Andrew Dacey wrote:
> >
> > On 9/19/01 10:49 PM, "C.H.Ling" <chling@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> <snip>
>
> > Was that
> > a completely new system (what was included?) or was it just a processor
and
> > motherboard upgrade? If it was just a upgrade, then you can't really
compare
> > that with the cost of buying a completely new system. You could use
> > incremental upgrades though as justification for one new system over
> > another.
> >
>
> $600 is the price for the whole system with keyboard, mouse, 4-8-32 CD
> R/W, 1.4G Athlon, 266MHz FSB Mother board, 256MB DDR RAM, IBM 40GB DMA
> 100HD, Lan card, 32M TNT2 64 video card, casing and power supply.
>
>
> > A big question with the performance issue is what do you need the
> > performance for? If it's just light office work and internet use, then
you
> > don't need a 1.4ghz machine. For the vast majority of home users, they
only
> > have as powerful a machine as they do because of gaming performance, or
> > because of not knowing what they need and letting themselves be talked
into
> > whatever the salesperson says they need.
> >
>
> I'm very happy with my 500MHz K6-2 for office work or even handle 27MB
> (max from my LS2000 at 24 bit color) photo editing. The problem was I
> just bought a Digital Video before a trip with my family. I found we
> did very bad on the videos and they need lots of editing and adding
> background music to make them better. Then I bought a Studio DV for
> capture and editing, at the beginning I try to use my 500MHz K6-2 but
> life is short I can wait so long for the processing time. Especially
> when I want to generate MPEG-1 video to be burn into VCD. It took over
> ten times of time to generate (i.e. one hour of video need over ten
> hours to generate the MPEG file). To be more reasonable I need a
> 5000MHz PC but I can't so I bought what I can afford.
>
>
> > Digital imaging and multimedia work (video, 3-d, audio) are of course a
> > completely different matter.
> >
>
> Exactly!
>
> C.H.Ling
>
> > --
> > Andrew "Frugal" Dacey
> > frugal@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
> > http://www.tildefrugal.net/
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