Is my PC up to it ?
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I have Dell PC with a 2GHz celeron processor. 256 Mb of ram and 20Gb free on the hard drive. Its 3 or 4 years old. Running XP.
My wife has taken about 4 hours worth of holiday material with her new digital camcorder on to about 4 double sided 8cm DVD-RAM discs. We would like to transfer it to full size discs whilst editing out the stuff we don't want to keep, nothing fancy.
Cue a trip to PC World to buy a DVD writer for the PC, and maybe some editing software.
The very helpful chap there says 'sorry, but you're wasting your time trying to edit video with a Celeron and only 256 Mb of ram.'
Is this correct, given that I only want to copy the material, deleting some of it as I go along.
I would also like to copy some DVDs that I already own (nothing copyright).
Any replies much appreciated.
Paul.
My wife has taken about 4 hours worth of holiday material with her new digital camcorder on to about 4 double sided 8cm DVD-RAM discs. We would like to transfer it to full size discs whilst editing out the stuff we don't want to keep, nothing fancy.
Cue a trip to PC World to buy a DVD writer for the PC, and maybe some editing software.
The very helpful chap there says 'sorry, but you're wasting your time trying to edit video with a Celeron and only 256 Mb of ram.'
Is this correct, given that I only want to copy the material, deleting some of it as I go along.
I would also like to copy some DVDs that I already own (nothing copyright).
Any replies much appreciated.
Paul.
I agree RAM id your friend. I have done video edditing on things far slower than your machine and with far less RAM too and still managed but it is hard work. if you are getting a DVD writer get another 256MB or better still go up to 1GB. But even if you choose not to it will still work just with lost of disk thrashing and long pauses while it thinks about things.
1 GB of ram if i was you,it will give your PC a nice boost,also look in your bios and try to run the ram at 1T command rate(normally set at 2T by default) that should be good for a 10% ram performance increase(change back to 2T if unstable),and yes even old pc,s have this option in the bios.
goto www.crucial.com/uk and use their system scanner or selector tool.
trevorw said:
goto www.crucial.com/uk and use their system scanner or selector tool.
Great. Thanks for that.
The Dell website was useless in recommending a suitable upgrade.
Paul.
B16 RFF said:
trevorw said:
goto www.crucial.com/uk and use their system scanner or selector tool.
Great. Thanks for that.
The Dell website was useless in recommending a suitable upgrade.
Paul.
Once the above has told you what type of memory you need, then Ebay or Ebuyer are your friends
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