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gavo

18th January 2005, 03:28

I have a speron 2600+ 2 ghz and I have about 30 486's and i'm thinkin of networking them for speed increase with rebuiler, will i notice a speed increase by havein 30 486's working together, rfarm also support paraparl computing?

wmansir

18th January 2005, 03:33

I think CCE requires a Pentium (maybe PIII) or better. I don't know about the other encoders.

Cwluc

19th January 2005, 15:36

Oh man why the ideal sounds hot as hell, wmansir is correct the slower CPU would be the PIII or Celeron. Here is the list of CPU's. (http://www.cinemacraft.com/eng/cpu.html) Man I wish I would have thought of that idea first. Now just to find a crap load of PIII's sitting around...