Two questions

[Cias]

1. How well does full-size 1680x1050 scale down to 800x600?

2. With my current setup I cannot record at a stable 40-50+ fps at 1680x1050;
AMD 4000+
7800 GT
1,5 GB ram @ 400 MHz
250 GB HDD @ 7,2k RPM

Will I be able to with the following system?:
Core2duo E6600 Overclocked
EVGA 680i Motherboard
8800 GTS, 640 MB
2 GB PC6400 RAM @ 800 MHz
74 GB RAPTOR HDD @ 10k RPM
Hiper 730W PSU

[deadworkersparty]

Try scaling it down to 720x480 instead of 800x600. Also, if you are capturing to a harddrive which shares the installed WoW, then you will want to use seperate physical harddrives for each or suffer dropped frames.

The best setup would be:

<Drive C:> Operating System
<Drive D:> WoW
<Drive E:> AVI Store

[Cias]

Originally Posted by deadworkersparty

Try scaling it down to 720x480 instead of 800x600. Also, if you are capturing to a harddrive which shares the installed WoW, then you will want to use seperate physical harddrives for each or suffer dropped frames.

The best setup would be:

<Drive C:> Operating System
<Drive D:> WoW
<Drive E:> AVI Store

Assume that I have a 10 000 RPM HDD where I have my windows and games. Would it be more logical to put WoW in the 7200 RPM HDD and the AVI store to the 10 000 RPM one? Or assign WoW to the 10 000 RPM one and put the AVI store to the 7200 RPM HDD?

[deadworkersparty]

Recording or capturing video is probably the most hard drive intensive activities that your computer can perform. Knowing that, I would record footage to your fast drive and put WoW on your 7200 rpm drive.

Another thing that would help tremendously... defragment your fast harddrive before recording to it. Everytime I start a new video project, I defrag my drives. That may seem a bit too anal, but if you analyze your drive with a defrag tool after you record to it, you'll see just how messy it can get after only one video project (which can really slow down the drive's I/O).