[J.J.]

hokay, got the new system under way, is

amd athlon xp-2500+ 1.8ghz, barton 512k l2 cache 333mhz fsb

gigabyte 7VAXP kt400 agp 8x

eVGA GeForce FX 5600 256MB DDR, AGP 8x w/ CRT, TVO, DVI

maxtor 80Gb 7200 ATA 133 - to go with the one I have already, so RAID 0 should make my slowest transfer speed anywhere the 266 from the hdd's, right?

512mb ram from kingston

now all I need is more ram and the most affordable video editing software that will let me produce broadcast quality ouput.

the digital camcorder is next, probably in about 3-4 months, thinking of the canon zx-4, so far the cheapest model with miniDV format and memory stick - which will make the firewire not so necessary for the 30-60 sec of material I would be working with.

see anything obvious in this setup that I am missing? - I will keep my old dell 17", was debating picking up an old cheap 15" monitor to use the multi-out so i can still work while compiling, but a friend said just use the s-video plug in my 27" TV to make that my 2nd monitor - what have your experiences with using multiple displays?

[ 05-12-2003, 05:30 AM: Message edited by: Ziroc ]