IIRC the "3200+" means they claim it performs like a 3200MHz P4, so beats a 2600.<br>Mencoder does 60fps ripping a DVD on a P4-3200. 1 or 2 threads makes no difference with HT. <br><br>By why recode? Unless you have a monster DVD collection, you should just rip it as the original mpeg2, and lose no quality.<br>
<br>Why would 64bit be better? I think the gain is small, and comes from the extra registers.<br><br><div class="gmail_quote">2009/12/30 Senectus . <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:senectus@gmail.com">senectus@gmail.com</a>></span><br>
<blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;"><div>Overview:</div>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.
<div><br></div><div>Problem:</div><div>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..</div>
<div><br></div><div>Specifics:</div><div>I have an Athlon 64 bit (I'm _pretty sure its a Venice)</div><div><span style="font-family: sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 19px;"><table style="border: 1px solid rgb(170, 170, 170); margin: 1em 1em 1em 0px; font-size: 13px; color: black; background-color: rgb(249, 249, 249); border-collapse: collapse;">
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Athlon 64 3200+</td><td style="border: 1px solid rgb(170, 170, 170); padding: 0.2em;">
2000 MHz</td><td style="border: 1px solid rgb(170, 170, 170); padding: 0.2em;">
512 KB</td><td style="border: 1px solid rgb(170, 170, 170); padding: 0.2em;">
1000 MHz</td><td style="border: 1px solid rgb(170, 170, 170); padding: 0.2em;">
10x</td><td style="border: 1px solid rgb(170, 170, 170); padding: 0.2em;">
1.35/1.40 V</td><td style="border: 1px solid rgb(170, 170, 170); padding: 0.2em;">
67 W</td><td style="border: 1px solid rgb(170, 170, 170); padding: 0.2em;">
Socket 939</td><td style="border: 1px solid rgb(170, 170, 170); padding: 0.2em;">
April 4, 2005</td><td style="border: 1px solid rgb(170, 170, 170); padding: 0.2em;">
ADA3200DAA4BP (E3)</td></tr></tbody></table></span></div><div>And a Pentium 4 Processor based system that I _think_ is the Northwood revision (unsure if its 64bit?!?)</div><div>its clocked at 2.60 ghz</div><div><br></div>
<div><br></div><div>Question:</div><div>Other system details aside, which of these processors is better for the raw encoding power?</div><div>I presume that 64bit is going to be much better for this process... also will Hyper threading help much?</div>
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