How is my setup?

smsmasters · 3 May 2006 at 14:08

New computer!

I just bought this setup today:

1 x Intel Pentium D 930 (BX80553930) Dual Core 3.00GHz FSB 800 2 X 2Mb Cache 775 <---I hope to overclock this to 4 ghz

1 x ASUS P5WD2 PREMIUM SKT775 1066FSB Intel 955x Chipset PCI-E DDR2-800 Dual GB-LAN Dual RAID *Dual Core CPU Ready*

1 x Hiper 480W Type-R Black PSU

1 x Thermaltake Soprano VB1000SWS Silver Mid-Tower Case with Side Window - No PSU

1 x XFX Geforce 6800XTreme Edition 256mb DDR3 Dual DVI TVO PCI-E

1 x Maxtor 6V300F0 DiamondMax 10 300GB 7200RPM SATA II 16MB Cache - OEM

1 x Corsair (TWIN2X1024-5400C4) 1024MB DDR2 XMS2-5400 4-4-4-12 2x512mb 240pin DIMM Black XMS2

1 x NEC ND-4570 16x DVD±RW/RAM Double Layer Internal IDE (Black) - OEM

1 x LG GDR-8164BL 16x52 DVD-ROM Internal IDE (Black) - OEM

1 x IDE cable Rounded UDMA Ultra 133/100 24" Red

Anyone know any software which is optimized for dual core that will allow me to convert raw AVI files from a digital camcorder into mpeg2 dvd format?

How long do you think it will take with this setup? 30mins for a 2 hr avi file?

My old pc is a pentium 4 2ghz northwood, 1gb pc2100 ddr ram, so I think this new pc is a breath of fresh air!

BigDom · 3 May 2006 at 14:16

*waits for poster to get told off for mentioning competition*

smsmasters · 3 May 2006 at 14:18

Where? I didn't mention any other vendor.

BigDom · 3 May 2006 at 14:33

smsmasters said:
Where? I didn't mention any other vendor.

hehe yeah now you've edited it

smsmasters · 4 May 2006 at 10:56

Is my setup windows vista ready? Will it run fast?

semi-pro waster · 4 May 2006 at 11:01

smsmasters said:
Is my setup windows vista ready? Will it run fast?

It can't be fully Vista ready in that you don't have a DX10 graphics card, they aren't commercially available yet though. It will run reasonably fast at stock speeds but once you overclock it then yes it should run fast(it is all relative mind, what is fast to me might not be fast to you or vice versa).

As for how long it will take to encode it depends greatly on what software you use. I'm afraid I don't have any to recommend unfortunately as it isn't something that I use my PC for.

glenimp617 · 4 May 2006 at 16:34

Depends on the quality you require for the video compression. To be honest, I use virtualdub for importing the avi and doing the editting work and then frameserving that out to tmpgenc for mpeg2 encoding. If I see any pixelation I get well mad so I use tmpgenc 2 pass feature at 10bits best quality.

If I require absolute top end quality, I'll use CCE with a high pass VBR something like 5

ErNciLator · 4 May 2006 at 17:58

use a nix based os

Mikey1280 · 4 May 2006 at 18:05

smsmasters said:
1 x Hiper 480W Type-R Black PSU

1 x Maxtor 6V300F0 DiamondMax 10 300GB 7200RPM SATA II 16MB Cache - OEM

Wouldnt have gone for these two bits of kit at all, the DM 10s are very unreliable and some people dont have great record with Hiper

Ventilated · 4 May 2006 at 18:07

Mikey1280 said:
Wouldnt have gone for these two bits of kit at all, the DM 10s are very unreliable and some people dont have great record with Hiper

Its good to make people feel pleased about what they just spent there money on.

Nice one

Mikey1280 · 4 May 2006 at 18:10

It will still be a big step up from the old pc even with the maxtor and hiper, I'm sure they'll be fine anyway.

Mr Mag00 · 4 May 2006 at 23:26

well the title did ask' how's my set up?'
he got answers.

Mr Spew · 4 May 2006 at 23:47

Ventilated said:
Its good to make people feel pleased about what they just spent there money on.

Nice one

He posted it asking how it was (after he bought it, no less!), he got what he asked for.