Building new computer. Help with CPU selection

[br408408]

Hi,
I am building a new computer and would like some input on AMD's XP2000-XP2200. I use DVD2AVI with AVISynth and MPEG2DEC to frame serve to CCE 2.5 Right now i am using an Intel Celeron Tualatin 1.3 overclocked to 1.4. I am getting .82-.86 RT in CCE. Does anyone know what kind of a speed increse I could expect with an AMD XP2000. I plan to use DDR 333 memory with the MSI KT3 Ultra motherboard. Speed is important to me as I like to use multi-pass.
Thank you for any help you can give, Bill

[Dreassica]

i have an XP1800 on a Asus 266DDR mainboard and get speeds of 1.3 realtime. So my gues is u could get speeds of up to 1.6/7 with a 2000+ and 333DDR, dont know for sure. It would mean an almost doubling of ur speed.

[wmansir]

Dreassica, your speed seems looks a little low. I get ~1.3RT with my 1.25GHz Tbird (oc'd from 1GHz) with an K7S5A w/ 512MB SDRAM. This is with SimpleResize, if I switch to Avisynth's standard bicubic resize I get 1.15-1.2RT.

Perhaps the reason I'm almost as fast as your setup is because my system bus is oc'd to 146MHz, since CCE is so dependent on system bandwith? But then again, you having DDR memory should make up for that and more.

[alturismo]

im also running on an XP1800

so when you talking about speeds

wich settings u guys use

like resize, quality, vbr settings, ...

on full resolution 720 x 576 vbr 2500 i have about ~1.140

on simple resized 480 x 576 vbr 2500 i have about ~1.350

quality settings at default

all sources original dvd ripped to hd, then through dvd2avi,
avs script standard

my system pref are

winXP pro
ECS K7S6A Board
Athlon XP1800
2 x 256mb DDR266 Infineon ram cl2 setted to ULTRA MODE
2 x 80 gigs IBM 7200
Gforce4 MSI MX440

i also would be interested how to peak that up as i saw some
posts before with about same system config and speeds up
to ~1.8

so, may some suggestions from some hardware pros or cce pros :D

thx ahead

[Boulder]

Make sure you buy some good brand DDR if you buy any 333MHz memory. I've read numerous reports about some crappy 333MHz DDR modules that are actually slower than the 266DDR ones when used with the KT333 chipset. I can't recommend any specific brand, but I think that Kingston and Apacer are at least safe to buy. Check the web, you might find some recommendations.

The KT3 Ultra board is good value for money:)

[alturismo]

well

i think my infineon 266 cl2 are ok

what i meant was

may there are some settings to switch wich improves the speed
in encoding, cause when i read some posts it looks like
im doing something wrong.

so when there would be some advices what settings improves speed
like in quality settings, etc..

that would be interested i think for lots of ppls

i will give some trys these days in quality settings, may there are
some approves to make