On Fri, Nov 23, 2001 at 08:39:25AM -0800, Mark Lanett wrote: > According to Tom's Hardware, realtime MPEG4 encoding requires about a 600mhz > P3. So an Athlon 1.2 would definitely be sufficient. > An array of high speed disks is going to be noisy. Two quiet IDE hard drives would not be noisy. You wouldn't hear them over the fans required to keep an Athlon cool. Mike.