Not using 100% of CPU during DivX encodeing?

[keyvan]

Hello all,

Just finished doing a small upgrade to my system for the sake of encoding times with Divx. Went from an AMD64 3500 to an AMD64 4400 dual core.

System runs great however when encoding both cores only seem to be running at at 60% to 70% according to the task manager cpu chart. I would have expected them to be both pegged at 100%.

Locically I would say that there is a bottle neck somewhere in the system and its not the CPU.

I have 2 gigs of Corsair XMS3200 CAS 2 Ram and a pair of stripped 250GB seagate drives.

Any suggestions?

Regards,

Keyvan

 

[keyvan]

Yes Windows was reinstalled after CPU and i am using a registered copy Divx 6.2 Pro.

 

[keyvan]

It's already compressed in WMV format.
I ruled out the drives being the bottle neck as I can copy all 220 MB in about 10 seconds from my stripped drives to an external usb drive. While it takes about 45 minutes for the converstion to take place.

I'm thinking it's a memory bandwidth issue. I have 4 x Corsair 512MB DDR XMS3200C2PT TwinX CAS2 dimms. While converting they get really hot to the point that I can't touch them (is that normal?) I have not messed with memory timming I am just using the 'TOP PERFORMACE' setting in the gigabyte BIOS as opposed to the 'OPTIMIZED' or 'DEFAULT' settings.

Is 4 dimms better or worse than 2 dimms with the same total capacity, putting aside the obvious increase in power consumption and heat disapation in the system?


I do have DivX Pro 6.2 which is registered, maybe you have to enable the dual core ability?