Anyone tried Multi Processor?

[abbadon]

I'm thinking of upgrading to a multi-processor setup, probably dual Athalons on a 760MPX or something along those lines. Has anyone tried DVD2One or Instant Copy with a multi-processor setup? Do these get the great performance boost seen in many MPEG-2 and MPEG-4 encoding progs, or is it just a negligable difference? Thanks.

[damonb]

Instant copy has probs with dual processors. easy to remedy though. I have a dual 1.5 gig amd rig and I just set the affinity to one processor while running instant copy or it behaves funny. Don't get me wrong tho, I love a dual system and could never go back. You can't burn a dvd-r encode mpeg2 and play quake3 at the same time with a single cpu :)

[Allistah]

I run IC on my dual p3-1GHz with WinXP and it runs perfectly. I don't have to mess around with setting it to only one proc or anything. It just works nice and neat. I like dual procs because it leave spare CPU cycles for me to use the system while IC is doing its work and I don't really notice that its doing its thing in the background.

-Allistah

[damonb]

yes it's a dual amd problem that's why

[pat8]

Had the same problem with a pair of P4 Xeons...went away with the latest IC update.

[quadguy]

I have IC working fine on a HP Kayak XU800, which is a dual INTEL i840 based machine. No need to set affinity to one processor, either.

(I did have problems with the displayed output while it was running, but that is a problem with the Oxygen GVX1 video card, not the dual processors).

Kwad