Originally posted by ZetecRacing:
it's a bit of a bigger differance than you think... I have a 2.8 pentium 4 system I built for a guy at work and it can run circles around my athlon running at 2.26ghz in amd's PR rating that's supose to be a 3200+ a 45 minute avi on my sistem with 512mb of ddr333 takes about 48 minutes to encode to a SVCD mpeg and on the pentium with 512mb or 800mhz rambus it finishes it in under 30 minutes.
you can get a 2.8 pentium for about $280 and a 3200+ athlon for about $479
This may be where the higher memory bandwidth and backplane throughput are helping out, though I suspect that AVI encoding is more of a number-crunching excercise than anything else, so the processor comparison is probably not too far off-base.
I'll wager I stand corrected here.
JaTo
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