Pentium 940 OK for scanning?

[times_champion]

At the moment I am trying to put some of my wedding and old photos onto my PC to make up a video against music on windows movie maker. I have run into a snag though when taking the pictures of the pics themselves with my camcorder and digital camera; when putting them onto movie maker the quality is quite low and they are blurry. I am considering getting a scanner to scan the actual photos in, would that give a better result? I had a scanner a few years back and it was so slow I only ended up using it once! Will it work quicker with my pentium 940, 2gb DDR2 RAM 7800GTX machine? How long do you think it would take to scan 1 photo? Would a core 2 duo make a big difference?

 

[Fothsn]

Its all down to the scanner tbh, my Epson is dog slow on a high DPI setting can take ages to scan!

 

[times_champion]

so a faster scanner would be quicker regardless of my cpu?

 

[mattyrigby00]

you dont need a fast cpu to scan lol, the data the scanner sends in will be processed hundreds of times faster than it actually scans.

 

[times_champion]

So how long on average does it take to scan in a photo at decent res?

 

[mattyrigby00]

depends on the scanner

 

[NathanE]

You can do this task on a Pentium MMX, don't need a cutting edge PC at all.

 

[times_champion]

depends on the scanner

Roughly though?

 

[easyrider]

so a faster scanner would be quicker regardless of my cpu?

Yes,

Just get a decent USB 2 scanner.

 

[Bossk128]

Some scanner software lets you scan more than one picture at a time, and saves them as seperate files- that'll at least double your speed

But yes, one 6x4 photo on my Canon scanner akes about 30-90seconds depending on resolution.

 

[times_champion]

Many thanks - i think ill order one!