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Originally posted by eru
My PC never locks up...
I got a xp 2000 (had to downgrade from 2200 long story). Video rendering is fast -- but if you want to play a game while rendering -- forget it! 
I wish there was a way to only allow the program(s) to use a certain percentage of the CPU rather than all they can.
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Actually there is a way - depending on what OS you run. You can download proggies to do this for any OS...but if you're running XP, you can set a limit to the % by doing "level of priority". To do this:
1) Right click the taskbar. Go to taskmanager.
2) Tab to PROCESSES
3) Right Click on the application hogging your CPU (the vid editing software)
4) Set priority to low (or whatever you want)
Basically that makes it so whatever you're doing takes precidence over that application. For example, I set SETI@HOME to LOW so that I can run it 24/7. =D
Hope that helped.