I'm looking at getting a new P.C. There's two I'm looking at from a UK Mail order catalogue:
1) can be viewed here: http://www.littlewoods-online.com/rf/navigation/product.do?linkId=465540 Celeron D 346 @ 3,06 GHZ,
2) Here:
http://www.littlewoods-online.com/rf/navigation/product.do?Ntx=mode+matchallpartial&SNtt=zoostorm&groupId=364386766&Nu=this_product&SNtk=littlewoods_search&Np=1&SN=103+85&Ntt=364386766&D=364386766&Ntk=group_search&Dx=mode%2Bmatchall&thisprod=359925893&N=103+85&Nty=1&Mis_item_id=15&Mis_item_loc_id=1&product=359925893
I don't know much about mainboards, except that bulging capacitors on my current mainboard mean that a new PC is probably in order soon, and with weekly payment terms it means I can afford to buy one wheras I don't have the readies to buy a mobo bundle. Plus I'm on 98 se at the moment and the cost of XP is high too. I have in my mainboard a 128 mb Radeon 9250 card which I'd like to migrate into the new pc, plus a couple of hard drives, and a firewire. I'm not bothered much about a monitor as I have a nice mitsubishi.
What's the likelehood of these having an AGP slot on the board? Or a PCI express slot at a push. And secondly, which will offer the best upgrade to a P4 later on, as I assume the 775 processor will be in a 775 motherboard, and the D 346 will be in a 348 or 349 motherboard.
Lastly, will they be any good for simple Mini DV editing. I run an athlon 1100 at present. That's slow, so will the celerons be much faster? I Heard someone say the equivalent P4 will do the job in a quarter of the time of the celeron, and the celerons won't be much faster than the Athlon. Surely the latter of the two statement isn't true?
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