Ok i'm building a new athlon 64 and wondering if is stick do the single core buy a dual core for like $50 more... will dual core help speeding up burning process or encoding ? also what dvd writer should i grab while im at it... pionner, sony or nec... thanks guys
I have a dual processor with Hyper Threading and it's not so much on the speed but it allows you to do 2 things at once using each processor seperately! That makes a big difference in burning a DVD, which takes up one processor and then using the other. It's not failable but it allows you to do other things that won't hurt your writing process where a single processor would disrupt the writing and then you have a coaster! Just my 2 cents. and check out this thread: http://forums.afterdawn.com/thread_view.cfm/268997 it's about what is the best writer you can get! good luck! And, I'm sure there are more threads out there on the same subject!
Many video encoders can take advantage of dual core processors. On the dvd's that I back up using DVDRebuilder with CCE, CCE uses 100% of both cpu cores if you let it. My video encoding times are a sixth to an eighth as long as they were under my old 2.0 GHz P4 system. On the videos that I back up using DVDShrink (those with less than 85% compression) then the processing time, even with all the video processing options turned on, is less than 10 minutes, sometimes as few as 5 minutes. So the burn actually takes longer than the video processing. The burn process is limited by your dvd burner and media, not the cpu, so ripping and burning will see little difference (maybe a little due to a newer computer having a faster data bus). But the analysis and transcoding/encoding will be almost twice as fast as a similar MHz single core Athlon64cpu (there's a little overhead with dual cores, but not much). On my system the other thing that speeds up video encodes is using a Raid 0 striped array video disk. The nF4 onboard controller is fast and scalable and a couple of SATAII disks in Raid 0 will read/write data as fast as your computer can process it.
...and don't forget both those discs in the Raid 0 will lose data just as quickly if one of the disks goes belly up
I have a dual core and you can mulittask really good. I havent tried to game yet so I cant tell you how gaming is on it.
