P4PE-X for video editing

[Giga News User]

I am thinking of buying a used P4PE-X mobo with a P4 2.66 GHz 550 MHz Bus,
512 cache.
The mobo has been barely used, the guy selling upgraded to something faster
in a couple of weeks of running it.

I am wondering is there any negatives to these mobos I should know before I
buy it?

I would like to use this machine for editing of home videos and burning my
own DVDs, some gaming, but mostly multimedia applications, audio video
production on a serious amateur scale but on a budget.

I plan on starting with only 512 Megs PC2700 memory.

OK, next question, I currently have WINDOWS 98 SE and all my software works
on it on this old P3 550 MHz machine though so slowly when doing video
intensive editing.

Can I still get away with WIN 98 SE or do I really need to move on to XP to
take advantage of the new mobo if I get it?

 

[Philip Callan]

I am thinking of buying a used P4PE-X mobo with a P4 2.66 GHz 550 MHz Bus,
512 cache.

Except for the fact it is more likely a 533FSB, if its running at 550, he's
overclocking it.

 

[Mutley]

I am thinking of buying a used P4PE-X mobo with a P4 2.66 GHz 550 MHz Bus,
512 cache.
The mobo has been barely used, the guy selling upgraded to something faster
in a couple of weeks of running it.

I am wondering is there any negatives to these mobos I should know before I
buy it?

I would like to use this machine for editing of home videos and burning my
own DVDs, some gaming, but mostly multimedia applications, audio video
production on a serious amateur scale but on a budget.

I plan on starting with only 512 Megs PC2700 memory.

OK, next question, I currently have WINDOWS 98 SE and all my software works
on it on this old P3 550 MHz machine though so slowly when doing video
intensive editing.

Can I still get away with WIN 98 SE or do I really need to move on to XP to
take advantage of the new mobo if I get it?

I have a P4PE that I use for video editing.

Win98SE. This was a dog with my old Matrox mjpeg analog video capture
card. Blue screens every where. Conflict with the mjpeg codec and
the P4PE drivers.

However Win2K is a different story. No drivers for my Matrox card so
I ended up buying a DV camcorder and cheap Firewire card. Never
looked back. This Mobo has great PCI thruput compared to the MSI that
I replaced.

 

[Jim in Canada]

I have been very happy with my 1 year old P4PE, 2.8 GHz PIV. It runs at 533
MHz. Be sure to install the MB drivers on the Asus CDRom. I NEVER had any of
the "cold boot" issues mentioned in this news group. Which I am starting to
think is unrelated to the motherboard....I will probably start a heated
thread with that comment

Maybe concider a larger faster hard drive if you do not have one already.
VCD's are about 625 MB in size and DVD's are around 4.5 GIG so they can suck
up freespace pretty quick. Also a good video card would be nice too. Either
a GeForce Ti or an ATI Pro of somesort. Stay away from MX's or SE versions.

98SE should be OK as it is the best of the Win9* operating systems. If you
wish to stay with it, download all the updates and burn them to a CDRom.
http://www.microsoft.com/windows98/downloads/corporate.asp
That way, when MS finally pulls the plug on the support, you have them all
handy for when you have to do a fresh install. Or....

Keep your eye open at some computer hardware stores. They will not advertise
it, but you might see a pile of XP OEMs . As long as you buy a piece of
internal computer hardware (Anything from a $500.00 video card to a $10.00
network card for example) you might be able to purchase a full OEM version
of WinXP Home edition SP1 for around $150CDN. The best thing I find with XP
is that it finds all hardware on first install and it realy is plug & play.

Jim