[plug] Hardware question

[Michael Holland]

IIRC the "3200+" means they claim it performs like a 3200MHz P4, so beats a
2600.
Mencoder does 60fps ripping a DVD on a P4-3200. 1 or 2 threads makes no
difference with HT.

By why recode? Unless you have a monster DVD collection, you should just rip
it as the original mpeg2, and lose no quality.

Why would 64bit be better?  I think the gain is small, and comes from the
extra registers.

2009/12/30 Senectus . <senectus at gmail.com>

> Overview:
> Am looking at knocking up a NAS/DVD Ripping box so I can pack away my DVD's
> and just use DLNA to stream to my Samsung Series 6 LCD.
>
> Problem:
> I have two old desktop PC's that I can choose from to use for this purpose
> and am trying to figure out which would be best, but I've forgotten
> everything I used to think I knew about hardware specs etc..
>
> Specifics:
> I have an Athlon 64 bit (I'm _pretty sure its a Venice)
>  Athlon 64 3200+ 2000 MHz 512 KB 1000 MHz 10x 1.35/1.40 V 67 W Socket 939April 4, 2005ADA3200DAA4BP (E3)
> And a Pentium 4 Processor based system that I _think_ is the Northwood
> revision (unsure if its 64bit?!?)
> its clocked at 2.60 ghz
>
>
> Question:
> Other system details aside, which of these processors is better for the raw
> encoding power?
> I presume that 64bit is going to be much better for this process... also
> will Hyper threading help much?
>
>
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