Thinking of upgrading E6420

[kkelly]

Hi there

I am currently in the process of converting all of my dvd's to mp4. This process takes roughly 4 hours on my current processor which sadly isn't stable when I over-clock it (doesn't post after reboot due to ram I think). I am thinking of upgrading to a Q8200 (all I can afford) and was wondering if anyone knows how quickly this processor is at encoding at h264.

Also will this motherboard (GA-965P-DS3) support such a processor I believe it will.

Or will i be better off replacing the ram and clocking my cpu until it dies a sad death.

 

[RJC]

What Rev board are you using, according to Gigabyte you will need Rev 3.3 for the Q8200.

 

[kkelly]

Rev 1 I think, its old will flashing the bois work or do I need a new motherboard ?

 

[RJC]

Rev 1.0 board will support the Q6600 cpu.
The BIOS updates for the Rev 1.0 only goes upto F13 were's the Rev 3.3 goes upto F14 which is a Beta BIOS and not sure what would happen when trying the older Rev boards.

 

[jawor121]

Q6600 will be ok, if you encoding movies then 4cores will be useful

 

[kkelly]

Thanks for the help guys

 

[OzZie]

Just got myself a Q6600, clocked to 3.0Ghz.

Takes 7 and a half minutes to encode a 349mb AVI file to DVD.

 

[C64]

depending on the software i think

main concept takes me 7 mins to convert 700mb file to dvd on my [email protected] ghz