I need help to chose the right Prosessor for encoding.

[PolaR ID]

Hello Friends...

I'm building my new PC and need help to chose the right Prosessor, so far I have chose the CORE 2 DUO E8600, 3.33GHZ & CORE 2 QUAD Q9650, 3.0GHz, now I don't know which one of these will work better for me, because most of the time I use VirtualDub with VirtualDubMod and some time meGUI,so the question is which of these will work faster, as far I know, meGUI support 4 Cores but I don't know for VD & VDM. Appreciate your helps.

Thanks in Advance.

[Audionut]

Depends on the codec, not the gui.

If you use x264 you will gain almost double encoding speed by using 4 cores rather than 2.
To a lesser extent, you will also gain encoding speed with xvid.

I would recommend the quad core if you do a lot of video encoding.

[dat720]

There are arguments both ways, some will say the quad core is definetly faster, others will say that there are limitations in the bus that prevent a quad being utilised to its full potential...

All I know is I have a Q9550 and it rocks!
When encoding using x264 the performance is nearly double over my old E6300!

And meGUI (meGUI is just a front end to other software) does not support multiple cores, its the software that does the encoding that supports multiple cores... ie x264, same with VD (that sounds terrible!) the codec needs to support using multiple cores not the program driving the codec...

[tetsuo55]

No question about, for encoding more core's will help you more than a higher clock.

for most other things though a higher clock will help you more, and more importantly, the higher L2 cache of the C2D series

[Arshad07]

Go for the quad! I'm on a QX6700 and i must say, its awesome! I make xvid use all of the cores at ~ 99% via MT.

Quad all the way!

[PolaR ID]

Thank you all so far for the kind replays, one more thing what I couldn't find out... will VirtualDub and VirtualDubMod support quad core?

[dat720]

As AudioNut and myself have already mentioned it depends on the codec used, some codecs support multicore others do not.

[PolaR ID]

i'm using Xvid 1.2.2

[slipknot!]

use the latest xvid, it 100% supports quad