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- 22 Jan 2005
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Hello Overclockers,
I joined this forum 16 years ago, back when I regularly built my own machines and somehow had the money to do it too! Fond memories. Somehow, life has got in the way and I am now on an aging machine (FX-8350, 8GB, 7950 GFX). I bought those components 8 years ago and ended up somewhat bitter that it never really got used for its intended purposes (gaming) so I never bothered to change it up, nor did I really need to. Most of my time I ended up working off a Macbook and the poor machine sat doing nothing. I've recently joined the world of NAS and I'm transcoding a lot of media with Handbrake. I'd been doing it on the Macbook (i5 from 2015) but realised just last week (duh!) that even my eight year old 8 core AMD FX does a better job. I did a race between the two devices on some 720p content and the Macbook took double the time.
Anyway, long story short, given that I plan to do CPU encoding only and have no desire to do heavy gaming at the moment, does anyone know what sort of improvement I might seen with a modest build using 2021 components? This is my current spec:
AMD FX 8350 Black Edition
Asus M5A97 R2.0, AMD 970, S AM3+
250GB Samsung 840 Series Basic, 2.5
Cooler Master Hyper 212 EVO, 4 Heat
8GB (2x4GB) Corsair DDR3 Vengeance
3GB Asus Radeon HD 7950 DirectCU II
Corsair TX 650W
Coolermaster CM 690 II Advanced Mid Tower Case
The last two items I bought in 2010... Is there any easy way to see the performance increase in handbrake between a FX8350 and newer kit? It would be nice to have something that would allow for a near-future expansion too. I am interested in the new FS.
Many thanks for your advice.
I joined this forum 16 years ago, back when I regularly built my own machines and somehow had the money to do it too! Fond memories. Somehow, life has got in the way and I am now on an aging machine (FX-8350, 8GB, 7950 GFX). I bought those components 8 years ago and ended up somewhat bitter that it never really got used for its intended purposes (gaming) so I never bothered to change it up, nor did I really need to. Most of my time I ended up working off a Macbook and the poor machine sat doing nothing. I've recently joined the world of NAS and I'm transcoding a lot of media with Handbrake. I'd been doing it on the Macbook (i5 from 2015) but realised just last week (duh!) that even my eight year old 8 core AMD FX does a better job. I did a race between the two devices on some 720p content and the Macbook took double the time.
Anyway, long story short, given that I plan to do CPU encoding only and have no desire to do heavy gaming at the moment, does anyone know what sort of improvement I might seen with a modest build using 2021 components? This is my current spec:
AMD FX 8350 Black Edition
Asus M5A97 R2.0, AMD 970, S AM3+
250GB Samsung 840 Series Basic, 2.5
Cooler Master Hyper 212 EVO, 4 Heat
8GB (2x4GB) Corsair DDR3 Vengeance
3GB Asus Radeon HD 7950 DirectCU II
Corsair TX 650W
Coolermaster CM 690 II Advanced Mid Tower Case
The last two items I bought in 2010... Is there any easy way to see the performance increase in handbrake between a FX8350 and newer kit? It would be nice to have something that would allow for a near-future expansion too. I am interested in the new FS.
Many thanks for your advice.
