Comments on suggested upgrade please

[Nezza42]

I'm about to upgrade my ageing Celeron 400 & m/board.

Can anyone comment on if this setup will be any good?


The Motherboard/CPU I am looking at is:

Gigabyte GA-7ZXR & AMD 850 T'Bird.

I currently have Matrox G400 Marvel with 2 Seagate Baracuda HDD's (UDMA66 7200rpm, 1 @ 20Gb (used for operating system - Win98 and file storage), other @ 30Gb partitioned for video capture & backups of other drive).

The 30Gig is partitioned as Primary 20Gb video only, ext partition 10Gb for backup.

Do the Gigabyte/AMD combo work well with the G400?

All my editing is currently either analogue from TV/Camcorder source, or DVD ripping to VCD.

I hope in a year or so to go DV.

Thanks for any constructive comments

Nezza

[Guru]

Go with a 1GHz instead there s almost no price difference betwean the 2 make sure you get a AXIA (266) model!

I don't no about the mobo! At work we currently use MSI mobos couse of theyr great stability and a 3year waranty! Check out the guide @ Anandtech !

[Greebe]

Seeing that you're going to use this as a video editing solution, it would be in your best interest to only go with a MB that Matrox says will work, Not something posted on Anandtech.

Matrox Validated Motherboards(I know, wrong link)


And while I'm at it I'll move you over to Desktop Video forum