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flaystus
30th June 2002, 07:03
Well its not JUST for encoding its for general use. Here's what I'm putting together Sunday night.

Athlon XP 2200+ (yeah its not very overclockable, I don't do it so I dont care)
MSI KT3 Ultra-ARU w/RAID
512MB CL2 DDR333 Memory
GeForce4 4400 Video card
2x80GB HDD Stripped


This is a pretty bigupgrade from my old box:

PIII 1Ghz
1gig pc133
80gb hdd
geforce 2 ti

My old encode on 2 hours of DV Video was 8 to 10 hours in TMPGenc depending on my settings, I'll let you know how fast the new one is... this PC is gonna rock cause I've usually stay a few tech gens behind to save cash.
theReal
3rd July 2002, 23:38
Wouldn't it be very tempting to unlock the XP and raise the FSB? You don't need to oc the XP (gets hot enough without, you'll see... it produces about as much heat as my T-Bird 1400, and that is very much...).

You should really run that DDR333 memory at 166 FSB minimum!
flaystus
4th July 2002, 04:03
Everything is configured quite nicely at this point. As far as how fast it is... well my old 1ghz P3 looked at a video file right before I upgraded and said it would take 5 hours to encode it to high quality DVDMPEG.... my new system does it in just a couple of min. over 2 hours. Not a bad upgrade....
theReal
4th July 2002, 05:03
Have you set the FSB to 166 yet? You could have bought PC2100 memory if you don't! :)
flaystus
11th July 2002, 09:22
Actually i had forgotten a few thing... such as indeed setting the memory speed to 166 as well as bumping it down to cas2 (it defaulted to 2.5) still running fast and stable. Now I'm thinking of perhaps water cooling...heh
lilhobo
27th July 2002, 14:16
"2x80GB HDD Stripped", what do u mean by "stripped"?


Originally posted by flaystus
Well its not JUST for encoding its for general use. Here's what I'm putting together Sunday night.

Athlon XP 2200+ (yeah its not very overclockable, I don't do it so I dont care)
MSI KT3 Ultra-ARU w/RAID
512MB CL2 DDR333 Memory
GeForce4 4400 Video card
2x80GB HDD Stripped


This is a pretty bigupgrade from my old box:

PIII 1Ghz
1gig pc133
80gb hdd
geforce 2 ti

My old encode on 2 hours of DV Video was 8 to 10 hours in TMPGenc depending on my settings, I'll let you know how fast the new one is... this PC is gonna rock cause I've usually stay a few tech gens behind to save cash.
theReal
27th July 2002, 16:32
what do u mean by "stripped"? Probably a typo meaning "striped" RAID 0
flaystus
28th July 2002, 01:32
Indeed it was a typeo, since a stripped hard drive would not have a very good life span :rolleyes:

Encode times that were almost a day are down to about 4 to 5 hours. DV video to DVD MPEG2 was about 8-10 hours depending on my TMPGenc settings, its now down to about 2 1/2 to 3 hours... not bad. (Those figures assume 2 hours of video)

The Liteon DVD-Rom rips on average at about 6-12x though of course sometimes it still will drop as low as 2x.
lilhobo
28th July 2002, 04:30
hi there, so you need the high end CPU to get real time encoding??? wouldnt it be more cost effective to get a snazzi dvd encoder hardware for half the AMD???