i video encode a lot of divx to dvd and have just purchased a new i7 system from over clockers which is still in the "warehouse queue" any ideas how much of a difference this processor will make to the encoding times in something like tempgenc?
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e6400 to d0 i7 920?
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Those results if accurate are quite interesting!
I would have expected the Intel® Core™ i7 to be a lot faster when encoding due to massive memory bandwidth and Hyper-threading?
Eight logical processor vs two real cores and its not even 100% faster
shame you couldn't do it with all the cpu's at the same speed ( 4.2GHz ).
It was all using the same movie file, probably slightly different versions of software (Nero) but don't think that could really be controlled when someone posts a forum thread and asked what other people get! We all used the same settings in Nero though
The Q9650 and the E8600 had the same FSB speed, but the E8600 was on a DDR2 platform, the Q9650 was my result and running DDR3 ram.
Not sure what the i7 was running, will edit this post if i later find the thread.
Would imagine Nero is not the most multi-threaded application wrote for this test as well and other software out there will get a larger difference.
Results are pretty accurate though and pretty much show the difference in quad vs dual encoding
We all used the same settings in Nero thoughThe Q9650 and the E8600 had the same FSB speed, but the E8600 was on a DDR2 platform, the Q9650 was my result and running DDR3 ram.
Not sure what the i7 was running, will edit this post if i later find the thread.
Would imagine Nero is not the most multi-threaded application wrote for this test as well and other software out there will get a larger difference.
Results are pretty accurate though and pretty much show the difference in quad vs dual encoding
Can't give forum link as its a competitors forum. We all used the same settings though in Nero.
owenbglos said:
Yep it used to take forever on my really ancient AMD setup!