Anyone know about the Intel Application Accelerator (IAA) at DVinfo.net

David Ho · January 27th, 2004, 08:56 PM

My chipset currently supports this program. According to Intel, it's suppose to "enhance/boost performance & such" ... Anyone tried it?

Would this benefit editing video? Anyone have any experiences?

Glenn Chan · January 27th, 2004, 09:19 PM

It improves performance when you're using RAID with the ICH5 controller as far as I know. ICH5 is the RAID with the SATA connectors.

Usually you don't need to bother with RAID unless your hard drives are a bottleneck. DV editing is fine with 7200rpm hard drives. The 10k rpm SATA drives (the WD raptors) and SCSI drives (15k, 10k, 7.2k, etc.) aren't worth using for DV.

Tim Borek · January 28th, 2004, 10:13 AM

I'm sure this varies from motherboard to motherboard, but ussing IAA is the only way to get my Western Digital 120GB Special Ed. drive to work in Ultra DMA Mode 5 in its IDE channel. Without IAA, Windows XP defaulted the drive to PIO Only, which made editing and capture impossible. I doubt many newer PCs need this.

My PC is a Dell Dimension 4100 PIII 866 purchased new in Nov. 2000.

Yeah, I know. . . Time for a new PC.

January 27th, 2004, 08:56 PM	#1
David Ho Major Player Join Date: Nov 2003 Location: Los Angeles, CA Posts: 354	Anyone know about the Intel Application Accelerator (IAA) My chipset currently supports this program. According to Intel, it's suppose to "enhance/boost performance & such" ... Anyone tried it? Would this benefit editing video? Anyone have any experiences? __________________ "Everyone has a photographic memory. Some just don't have film."

January 27th, 2004, 09:19 PM	#2
Glenn Chan Inner Circle Join Date: Jun 2003 Location: Toronto, Canada Posts: 4,750	It improves performance when you're using RAID with the ICH5 controller as far as I know. ICH5 is the RAID with the SATA connectors. Usually you don't need to bother with RAID unless your hard drives are a bottleneck. DV editing is fine with 7200rpm hard drives. The 10k rpm SATA drives (the WD raptors) and SCSI drives (15k, 10k, 7.2k, etc.) aren't worth using for DV.

January 28th, 2004, 10:13 AM	#3
Tim Borek Major Player Join Date: Dec 2003 Location: Westfield, IN Posts: 353	I'm sure this varies from motherboard to motherboard, but ussing IAA is the only way to get my Western Digital 120GB Special Ed. drive to work in Ultra DMA Mode 5 in its IDE channel. Without IAA, Windows XP defaulted the drive to PIO Only, which made editing and capture impossible. I doubt many newer PCs need this. My PC is a Dell Dimension 4100 PIII 866 purchased new in Nov. 2000. Yeah, I know. . . Time for a new PC.