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Would an NVidia GeForce FX5600 be a better bet than the 9600? It
sounds like an ATI card would be rather iffy...<br>
<br>
At 11:34 PM 3/27/2004 -0800, you wrote:<br>
<blockquote type=cite class=cite cite>--- Andy Lee
<andy@ecdsystems.com> wrote:<br>
> <br>
> I have a 1.3GHz Pentium 4 system w/512 MB of memory and a Radeon
9600 <br>
> videocard that I would like to be able to reuse as a PVR now that it
is <br>
> being replaced as my desktop system. Is that reasonable?
I know it's not <br>
> blazing fast, but I have been hoping that if I put in a tuner card
with <br>
> some h/w compression (Hauppauge 250/350) it should be able to record
one <br>
> show while watching another, and/or watch live with the ability to
<br>
> pause. Is that a realistic expectation?<br>
> <br>
> <br>
> <br>
> -Andy<br>
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Processor wise your fine with the P4 I'm guessing. I can't comment
on your<br>
video card, I have an NVidia.<br>
<br>
I have an AMD XP 2000 underclocked with 512MB RAM.<br>
cat /proc/cpuinfo shows that it's running at 1244.719 MHz<br>
I have 3 PVR 250's and playback of a 5MB/s stream takes up 30% cpu with
the<br>
deinterlacing filter. Recording takes 0% CPU practically.
<br>
<br>
Billy<br>
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