A sufficient machine?

[JonnyFunFun]

Hi! I currently have a AMD Athlon 64 2800+ running with a Happauge PVR500 and a few computers I am thinking of hooking up with the Link software, but I am not sure how well the configurations will work. I'd just like to know some of your experiences with some of this hardware as I am totally new to this stuff. Thanks.

First I have an AMD Duron 1.1 on a ECS K7S5A motherboard, a geForce 4 Ti-4200 video card and 256 mb of RAM. I would like to know if the 256 will be sufficient, or will I need to get more.

Second I have an ASUS Pundit-R barebone with a Celeron D 310 Prescott and 512 mb of RAM. This board has the on-board ATI Radeon 9100. I guess I don't really need to know much about this machine, just if it will work well.

Also, Windows 2000 or Windows XP?

Thanks a bunch!

[mrgrocery]

I would think you would want to get another 256 or 512 of ram for the first one, other wise they seem ok.

[dreamer]

Shoot...I'm running BTV on my 1GHz PIII! As long as your using Hauppauge cards you should be OK. I had been running BTV with an ATI 7200, which ran fine, but I've upgraded to an ATI 9600. Have fun!

[Trunk]

866MHz PIII here. 512MB RAM, don't worry about it. I can record two shows while watching one of them. It struggles with 3D Accelerated mode, but a lot of more powerful machines do too. I'm not losing sleep over it.