AMD 3000+ with 1GB DDR400

[SurfDrifter]

I was having a AMD 1600+ with 1GB DDR400 on a Gigabyte 7VXPA Pro Ultra
(the one with S-ATA, LAN, RAID) with VIA chipset.

I decided to buy amd 3000+. I installed and realised that my DDR now are running at 333. Is this good or bad?

I noticed that the speed for encoding with CCE wasn't dramatically changed. From 1.0-1.1 speed, now i'm encoding at 1.4 real-time. Is this normal, or is there something that's hangong my PC?
I have at the moment a 40GB for system only, a SATA 120GB and a 80GB HD with various files(documents, photos, programs, etc).
Is this speed normal? I expected about 2.0 realtime, since i saw a 2.8 P4 in action(1gb ram) getting speeds of 1.9.

Any ideas? Should I change my mobo?

[pepipocpoc]

Hello, SurfDrifter.

You know intel and amd processors don't use the same labels. For instance, an AMD XP 2400+ is, in fact, only at 2000, but PRETEND to be as fast as an intel 2400... So I'm not astounded a P4 2.8 may be faster than an AMD 3000.

Then, since you seem to have two HD, it depends on whitch you read files from and write to.

[Doom9]

speed values are completely irrelevant without source and the exact encoding setup.
Is 1.4x good? If you're using 10 extremely cpu intensive filters in a row, it's a great value. If you're encoding a DVD at DVD resolution without any filtersing and resizing, using AviSynth 2.5x and CCE 2.50 without audio, the value isn't so great, in fact you should get a higher value. But as you can see, all things are relative.
To my knowledge there is no mag or website out there that would test CPUs and Mainboards with the actual tools we're using so you can effectively not compare with those either (the mpeg2 encoding tool intel suggests for benchmarking and that everyone uses shows intel as being faster in that particular area than a comparable amd chip, same goes for divx5 in xmpeg but that might not be the case with cce and gknot).

also, if you have only upgraded the cpu and the rest of your system is as old as your old cpu, then you could probably gain something by switching the platform.. fast cpus are effectively running with a handbrake on if there are old elements in the platform. And as pepipocpoc mentioned, you can gain by having the source on one HD and the target on another HD.

[Wilbert]

I decided to buy amd 3000+. I installed and realised that my DDR now are running at 333. Is this good or bad?
... and you bought DDR400 memory? Are you sure that the bus speed of your processor works at 200 MHz? Are you sure your motherboard can handle 200MHz?