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Marc P.: LvR: Ahem ....................   There is a ''VCR input'' tickbox in the 710's capture setting panel ..................... tick it. Yup that's what that feature's for.One would have thought eh?..................................... Yet in every fight I have had with the powers to be on the subject, not a single serious sensible ...

Ahem ....................   There is a ''VCR input'' tickbox in the 710's capture setting panel ..................... tick it.

When I get past around 30 minutes of video with some subtitles, transitions, photos, voice overs and music, Studio gets VERY unstable, slow, buggy and occasionally just shuts down.  When I pull up my CPU usage at these times it is maxed out at 98-100%. So up to that point all is actually in control and workable?   If yes then ...

Check 3D server, DirectX9, hardware, software, compatibility yak yak yak yak   Sisyphus here ............... sans the rock, but at the top of the world ............... content for quite a while now.      

Fill rate is a direct indication of the ''customer satisfaction index'' - the bigger the number, generally the faster the screen will be able to get updated and the smoother video playback and gaming will be

Maureen Thistle:Thanks for the reply - actually I didn't open the box yet - I am waiting on a friend to come over and install the graphics card -my hubby just bought it last Friday so no problem with a return. But it looks like you think the 8600 may be the way to go. anyone else have an opinion?Look at the respective ''fill rate'' values for the ...

VE7AXO:You won't gain any real speed transferring data with a SSD using the current technology.  The typical SSD write speed is about 100 MBytes/sec, while HDD's go up to 3 GBytes/sec.Look - you started the OT with that statement.   I questioned it, and you now conveniently say By the way, I wouldn't put too much stock into ...

''Data transfer rate (as of 2008) at the inner zone ranges from 45 MB/s to 3.0 GB/s, while the transfer rate at the outer zone ranges from 74.0 MB/s to 111.4 MB/s.[citation needed] In contrast, the first PC drives could manage only around 40 KB/s.''All I can say is that there is at least 1 wrong ''fact'' there ...

Nah - think you missed the point.   ''3 GByte/s'' is virtually impossible with current technology - we are at 3 Gbit/s today and most all current SATA drives will outperform any/all SSD drives on throughput. Burst rates may favor SSDs but to pay 30 times the price for the same capacity to save perhaps 5 seconds (if that) on a typical SD DVD ...