for x86 pcs, the minimum system requirements are as follows:

    90 mhz pentium processor or higher for the hardware. microsoft currently recommends a pentium piii 700 xeon or better with 128mb ram running windows 2000 for running the windows media encoder 7.

    one available pci slot

    windows nt 4.0 or windows 2000

    approximately 1 megabyte of storage for system files

    for optimum performance, we recommend at least the following additional features.

    video display adapter with:

    2mbytes memory minimum (4 mbytes or more recommended)

    direct draw capability

    an up-to-date display device driver with direct draw capability

    with the osprey-500 you can use on-board audio capture capability to capture sound and multiple cards to capture multiple audio streams. however, you still need a sound card to monitor or play back audio since the osprey-500 is only a capture device and not an audio playback device.