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Upgrading graphics card on a DELL PC for home movie-making
Hi all
I have just made my first digital camcorder movie on my DELL Dimension L566cx Celeron PC using Pinnacle Studio 9 and have come to the conclusion that the graphics card could really do with an upgrade. My PC specs currently are as follows: O/S: Windows 2000 System Model L566cx System Type X86-based PC Processor x86 Family 6 Model 8 Stepping 3 GenuineIntel ~564 Mhz Total Physical Memory 391,472 KB Available Physical Memory 107,644 KB Total Virtual Memory 1,333,112 KB Available Virtual Memory 797,624 KB Page File Space 941,640 KB I currently have an Intel 82810E Graphics card installed. Does anyone have any recommendations for a card that will fulfill my requirements and work with the PC processor etc. that I currently have? I'm looking to spend around £100 if possible. Cheers in advance :-) Ian |
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ianUK wrote:
Hi all I have just made my first digital camcorder movie on my DELL Dimension L566cx Celeron PC using Pinnacle Studio 9 and have come to the conclusion that the graphics card could really do with an upgrade. My PC specs currently are as follows: O/S: Windows 2000 System Model L566cx System Type X86-based PC Processor x86 Family 6 Model 8 Stepping 3 GenuineIntel ~564 Mhz Total Physical Memory 391,472 KB Available Physical Memory 107,644 KB Total Virtual Memory 1,333,112 KB Available Virtual Memory 797,624 KB Page File Space 941,640 KB I currently have an Intel 82810E Graphics card installed. Does anyone have any recommendations for a card that will fulfill my requirements and work with the PC processor etc. that I currently have? I'm looking to spend around £100 if possible. Cheers in advance :-) Ian Actually you don't have /any/ graphics card installed - you have an on-board graphics chip. You should have come to the conclusion that the entire system could do with an upgrade - stick a modern graphics card into that and the CPU will become the bottleneck. You could use a decent P4 system if you're going to be serious about it - you will certainly require more RAM, especially as anything up to 64MB of what you have will have been poached by the on-board chip. Celerons are designed as basic task machines (web browsing, email, office tasks, etc) they aren't meant for video editing - you need a meaty P4 with lots of RAM for that. |
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"ianUK" wrote in message om... Hi all I have just made my first digital camcorder movie on my DELL Dimension L566cx Celeron PC using Pinnacle Studio 9 and have come to the conclusion that the graphics card could really do with an upgrade. My PC specs currently are as follows: O/S: Windows 2000 System Model L566cx System Type X86-based PC Processor x86 Family 6 Model 8 Stepping 3 GenuineIntel ~564 Mhz Total Physical Memory 391,472 KB Available Physical Memory 107,644 KB Total Virtual Memory 1,333,112 KB Available Virtual Memory 797,624 KB Page File Space 941,640 KB I currently have an Intel 82810E Graphics card installed. Does anyone have any recommendations for a card that will fulfill my requirements and work with the PC processor etc. that I currently have? I'm looking to spend around £100 if possible. Cheers in advance :-) Ian I'm no expert but make sure you have an AGP slot before buying an AGP graphics card. My parents Dell has an Intel on board graphics card similar to yours and there is no AGP slot. |
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Paul wrote:
"ianUK" wrote in message om... Hi all I have just made my first digital camcorder movie on my DELL Dimension L566cx Celeron PC using Pinnacle Studio 9 and have come to the conclusion that the graphics card could really do with an upgrade. My PC specs currently are as follows: O/S: Windows 2000 System Model L566cx System Type X86-based PC Processor x86 Family 6 Model 8 Stepping 3 GenuineIntel ~564 Mhz Total Physical Memory 391,472 KB Available Physical Memory 107,644 KB Total Virtual Memory 1,333,112 KB Available Virtual Memory 797,624 KB Page File Space 941,640 KB I currently have an Intel 82810E Graphics card installed. Does anyone have any recommendations for a card that will fulfill my requirements and work with the PC processor etc. that I currently have? I'm looking to spend around £100 if possible. Cheers in advance :-) Ian I'm no expert but make sure you have an AGP slot before buying an AGP graphics card. My parents Dell has an Intel on board graphics card similar to yours and there is no AGP slot. As I stated earlier (and I'm sure Kony and/or AZ will disagree! ;o)) there is no point in putting a fast graphics card in that system as the next bottleneck will be the CPU and RAM. He also doesn't say how big the hard drive is, either. |
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On Mon, 24 May 2004 14:46:47 +0100, "Cerridwen"
wrote: Paul wrote: "ianUK" wrote in message om... Hi all I have just made my first digital camcorder movie on my DELL Dimension L566cx Celeron PC using Pinnacle Studio 9 and have come to the conclusion that the graphics card could really do with an upgrade. My PC specs currently are as follows: O/S: Windows 2000 System Model L566cx System Type X86-based PC Processor x86 Family 6 Model 8 Stepping 3 GenuineIntel ~564 Mhz Total Physical Memory 391,472 KB Available Physical Memory 107,644 KB Total Virtual Memory 1,333,112 KB Available Virtual Memory 797,624 KB Page File Space 941,640 KB I currently have an Intel 82810E Graphics card installed. Does anyone have any recommendations for a card that will fulfill my requirements and work with the PC processor etc. that I currently have? I'm looking to spend around £100 if possible. Cheers in advance :-) Ian I'm no expert but make sure you have an AGP slot before buying an AGP graphics card. My parents Dell has an Intel on board graphics card similar to yours and there is no AGP slot. As I stated earlier (and I'm sure Kony and/or AZ will disagree! ;o)) there is no point in putting a fast graphics card in that system as the next bottleneck will be the CPU and RAM. He also doesn't say how big the hard drive is, either. Nope, i don't disagree, there is no benefit to a good graphics card for 2D work like that... it merely needs to be able to display 30FPS at the user's desired resolution and bit-depth. If it will do that, there is no benefit to a better card, except if 810 doesn't support MPEG hardware acceleration, which I can't remember... if it doesn't, then any old card, preferribly ATI, can be had for $15, in PCI version since OP's system probably doens't have an AGP slot. The entire system was low-end when it was new, and it's showing it's age moreso today than ever before. |
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As I stated earlier (and I'm sure Kony and/or AZ will disagree! ;o))
there is no point in putting a fast graphics card in that system as the next bottleneck will be the CPU and RAM. He also doesn't say how big the hard drive is, either. I have a main hard-drive which is 15GB in capacity and has some 5GB free on it. I recently purchased a secondary drive which has 80GB capacity for the actual film-editing itself as I quickly realised that what I had available wasn't going to be sufficient. Nope, i don't disagree, there is no benefit to a good graphics card for 2D work like that... it merely needs to be able to display 30FPS at the user's desired resolution and bit-depth. If it will do that, there is no benefit to a better card, except if 810 doesn't support MPEG hardware acceleration, which I can't remember... if it doesn't, then any old card, preferribly ATI, can be had for $15, in PCI version since OP's system probably doens't have an AGP slot. The entire system was low-end when it was new, and it's showing it's age moreso today than ever before. I must admit I am coming to the conclusion that maybe I should just live with the system as it is for the time being (rather than spend any more on hardware) and then upgrade the entire system to a new P4 model - I have had this one for 4 years and I guess it's now getting a bit long in the tooth! Thanks all for your suggestions and input anyway. Ian |
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His machine doesn't have an AGP slot, only 4 PCI
slots, and it uses up to 6 MB of memory for the on board video. It presently runs the memory at 66 MHz. All in all, not worth upgrading, although in theory it will take a 8oo MHz/100MHz celeron. "kony" wrote in message ... On Mon, 24 May 2004 14:46:47 +0100, "Cerridwen" wrote: Paul wrote: "ianUK" wrote in message om... Hi all I have just made my first digital camcorder movie on my DELL Dimension L566cx Celeron PC using Pinnacle Studio 9 and have come to the conclusion that the graphics card could really do with an upgrade. My PC specs currently are as follows: O/S: Windows 2000 System Model L566cx System Type X86-based PC Processor x86 Family 6 Model 8 Stepping 3 GenuineIntel ~564 Mhz Total Physical Memory 391,472 KB Available Physical Memory 107,644 KB Total Virtual Memory 1,333,112 KB Available Virtual Memory 797,624 KB Page File Space 941,640 KB I currently have an Intel 82810E Graphics card installed. Does anyone have any recommendations for a card that will fulfill my requirements and work with the PC processor etc. that I currently have? I'm looking to spend around £100 if possible. Cheers in advance :-) Ian I'm no expert but make sure you have an AGP slot before buying an AGP graphics card. My parents Dell has an Intel on board graphics card similar to yours and there is no AGP slot. As I stated earlier (and I'm sure Kony and/or AZ will disagree! ;o)) there is no point in putting a fast graphics card in that system as the next bottleneck will be the CPU and RAM. He also doesn't say how big the hard drive is, either. Nope, i don't disagree, there is no benefit to a good graphics card for 2D work like that... it merely needs to be able to display 30FPS at the user's desired resolution and bit-depth. If it will do that, there is no benefit to a better card, except if 810 doesn't support MPEG hardware acceleration, which I can't remember... if it doesn't, then any old card, preferribly ATI, can be had for $15, in PCI version since OP's system probably doens't have an AGP slot. The entire system was low-end when it was new, and it's showing it's age moreso today than ever before. |
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