I have recenty upgraded my server and I am having so much fun, that I am even thinking of making it my main machine again.
I have sold a load of stuff to upgrade it and Im sort of upset with myself. I no longer have my Ryzen, or my Skylake, but thats fine, I have no need for them as I have 11 more PCs, and I have sold my last motorbike, but I still have my trike, so thats fine... I cannot ride the bike anyway as I am a wheelchair user.
But, what I have been doing, is basically just converting a lof of Video files. Its nothing I have not done before, but this time, what I have been doing, is converting loads of them in batches and seeing the best options and the best software for doing it with, and I have also been trying it out on 3 Machines of various spec, just to see how things go.
I noticed, that the Server, has a seemingly annoyingly slow disk access when compared to the others. This is quite annoying because its C: is a 120GB Corsair SSD, D: is a 3TB WD Black, and its got more, but thats not important here, what I decided to do, was to do all the work using RAM Disks. My Server has a whole 512GB RAM, my main AMD has 32GB and a 16GB RAMDisk, and the Intel has 48GB and that too has a 16GB RamDisk, and so the Server has one too!
I did play about with installing and running games from SSD and RAMDISK a while back and found that there was simply not enough in it to worry as the most time was taken up by unpacking/packing the data etc, rather than the Loading/Saving, but this time, the SSD was purely to take out the problem of the Disk accesses in each machine.
What I have done, is downloaded a whole load of little cartoons from YouTube, most are about the 5 to 10MB in size, so nothing too big, plus Im only working with the RAMDisk, so I am working well within the size limits, but I did grab a couple of hundred of them, so plenty of files to work on.
The AMD has 8 Cores ( 4.7Ghz ), The Intel has 12 ( 6+HT @ 3.2Ghz) and the Opteron 64 ( 4 CPUs with 16 Cores each @ 2.5Ghz )
I suppose then, the total workable power in each, would be
AMD = 37.6
Intel = 19.2 or 38.4 ( With hyperthreading, how much does this TRULY help? I need to do more tests )
Opteron = 160
Now, I was trying to use HandBrake, as this issuposed to use all the CPU % it can, however, it was simply too slow, and at best, I could never get it to use up more than 49% of the CPU power, so that annoyed me a little.
In the end, I opted for Bigasoft Total converter as I use this most of the time anyway, and it does allow me to convert almost anything to almost anything and its never failed me yet, so...
I simply opted to convert all the files from whatever they were, and they are a mixture of AVI and FLV, into 640x480 MPG files.
I also did a few variations on the tests too... I can select the number of threads that it uses, and also the number of files that it works on at a time, and each of these all make a huge difference to the total times it takes.
For example the first run on the AMD, gave me 1:27 to convert them all and that was with only 4 files at a time, but afterwards, I redone the run, same files obviously, same output settings, but now I had it set to 20 threads and working on 8 files at a time, and the time dropped to a nice and low 26 seconds.
The Opteron was even more impressive. its first run was 40 seconds, and when I set the Threads to 32 and the files to 8, it completed teh lot in just 8 seconds!
Its clear from that alone, that the Opteron is a slow machine and fairly poor to use as a normal computer, but it certainly does come into its own, when you get it to do hard work.
The Intel was the loser in these tests... Not for any fair reason because its an old 970 and so completely unfair if I am honest, but in saying that it did not lose by much at all. It certainly held its own.
The fastest it managed to convert them all was 44 seconds and maybe that can be tweaked , maybe not, but thats under 1 minute, to convert a whole folder full of files, so thats certainly not a bad result.
Ah, I dont know why Im saying this, I just had to say something basically cos I am now bored.
Im putting all the results into a spreadsheet and I might put it up to annoy anyone who cares to se them, but I probably wont.
Thats it, im done.
I have sold a load of stuff to upgrade it and Im sort of upset with myself. I no longer have my Ryzen, or my Skylake, but thats fine, I have no need for them as I have 11 more PCs, and I have sold my last motorbike, but I still have my trike, so thats fine... I cannot ride the bike anyway as I am a wheelchair user.
But, what I have been doing, is basically just converting a lof of Video files. Its nothing I have not done before, but this time, what I have been doing, is converting loads of them in batches and seeing the best options and the best software for doing it with, and I have also been trying it out on 3 Machines of various spec, just to see how things go.
I noticed, that the Server, has a seemingly annoyingly slow disk access when compared to the others. This is quite annoying because its C: is a 120GB Corsair SSD, D: is a 3TB WD Black, and its got more, but thats not important here, what I decided to do, was to do all the work using RAM Disks. My Server has a whole 512GB RAM, my main AMD has 32GB and a 16GB RAMDisk, and the Intel has 48GB and that too has a 16GB RamDisk, and so the Server has one too!
I did play about with installing and running games from SSD and RAMDISK a while back and found that there was simply not enough in it to worry as the most time was taken up by unpacking/packing the data etc, rather than the Loading/Saving, but this time, the SSD was purely to take out the problem of the Disk accesses in each machine.
What I have done, is downloaded a whole load of little cartoons from YouTube, most are about the 5 to 10MB in size, so nothing too big, plus Im only working with the RAMDisk, so I am working well within the size limits, but I did grab a couple of hundred of them, so plenty of files to work on.
The AMD has 8 Cores ( 4.7Ghz ), The Intel has 12 ( 6+HT @ 3.2Ghz) and the Opteron 64 ( 4 CPUs with 16 Cores each @ 2.5Ghz )
I suppose then, the total workable power in each, would be
AMD = 37.6
Intel = 19.2 or 38.4 ( With hyperthreading, how much does this TRULY help? I need to do more tests )
Opteron = 160
Now, I was trying to use HandBrake, as this issuposed to use all the CPU % it can, however, it was simply too slow, and at best, I could never get it to use up more than 49% of the CPU power, so that annoyed me a little.
In the end, I opted for Bigasoft Total converter as I use this most of the time anyway, and it does allow me to convert almost anything to almost anything and its never failed me yet, so...
I simply opted to convert all the files from whatever they were, and they are a mixture of AVI and FLV, into 640x480 MPG files.
I also did a few variations on the tests too... I can select the number of threads that it uses, and also the number of files that it works on at a time, and each of these all make a huge difference to the total times it takes.
For example the first run on the AMD, gave me 1:27 to convert them all and that was with only 4 files at a time, but afterwards, I redone the run, same files obviously, same output settings, but now I had it set to 20 threads and working on 8 files at a time, and the time dropped to a nice and low 26 seconds.
The Opteron was even more impressive. its first run was 40 seconds, and when I set the Threads to 32 and the files to 8, it completed teh lot in just 8 seconds!
Its clear from that alone, that the Opteron is a slow machine and fairly poor to use as a normal computer, but it certainly does come into its own, when you get it to do hard work.
The Intel was the loser in these tests... Not for any fair reason because its an old 970 and so completely unfair if I am honest, but in saying that it did not lose by much at all. It certainly held its own.
The fastest it managed to convert them all was 44 seconds and maybe that can be tweaked , maybe not, but thats under 1 minute, to convert a whole folder full of files, so thats certainly not a bad result.
Ah, I dont know why Im saying this, I just had to say something basically cos I am now bored.
Im putting all the results into a spreadsheet and I might put it up to annoy anyone who cares to se them, but I probably wont.
Thats it, im done.