[Stan Brager]

If you’re hitting a 2gB limit and you have space available on your hard drive, check the format of that drive to make certain that it’s NTSF and not FAT32.

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Stan Brager

[Stan Brager]

The Athlon line isn’t as fast as the Pentium line with hyperthreading which would be preferred. On the other hand, Athlons are much cheaper.

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Stan Brager

[Stan Brager]

Aanarav;

I’ve just searched Froogle to determine the cost of an Athlon 64 which would be in my price range and it looks as if the winner is the Athlon 64 3200+ which runs at 2.0 gHz although the 3000+ which runs at 1.8 gHz is significantly cheaper. In any event, a minimum of 1 gHz of RAM would complete my system.

It seems that the greatest amount of time to develop a video is in the design and layout of the scenes. The rendering is such a small part of the overall time of a project that an overnight render is no great problem. One trick I’ve learned from Studio is to render small segments and then merge the segments to create a final product. Is this how one works in Premiere Pro?

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[Stan Brager]

Thanks, Aanarav.

I don’t think I understand your question. Are you asking about the specific motherboard and which AMD chip?

If so, I was thinking of getting the ECS nForce3-A939 board. The model is the ECS nForce3-A939. I chose this board for cost and legacy reasons. I have many applications which run under Win98se and this board supports that OS. It also supports the Athlon 64.

I haven’t decided which model to buy although I’d like to stay under $100 for the CPU while getting the best rendering speed possible. Fortunately, I have lots of patience for program operations which take a long time. There seems to be a lot of confusion about the Athlon 64 lines with many comments made about which design would be best – whatever that means. For me what would be best for the graphics aspect would be my prime consideration.

Thanks;

Stan
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