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[soccrstar]

hi,

i'm in need of a pc strictly for encodin'. and i've been readin' around and it seems that the p4 is far betta in encodin' vs athlon... sooooooooooo. instead of gettin' dual athlon board wit 2 let say athlon XP no more than 1700+ i'm thinkin' of gettin' say a p4 1.6-1.7ghz cpu and OC it to like 1.8-2ghz and use it for encodin'. imma need another water cooling system though :-/ if imma oc dat high. blah.

i dont know JACK bout intel i neva brought one so this gon b my first intel cpu. (besides the p1 66mhz n p1 133mhz i got in basement, but dat dont count).

question is would gettin' a p4 1.6ghz b better than gettin' a dual athlon XP 1700+?

[MrP]

hmmmmm,

if your going to do encoding, i think the only way your going to best an amd system is by buying a 2.5gig plus p4 and then overclocking the hell out of it, or by getting a p4 with hyperthreading (which basically makes it 2 cpu's anyway)

try checking out www.2cpu.com

[soccrstar]

Originally posted by MrP
hmmmmm,

if your going to do encoding, i think the only way your going to best an amd system is by buying a 2.5gig plus p4 and then overclocking the hell out of it, or by getting a p4 with hyperthreading (which basically makes it 2 cpu's anyway)

try checking out www.2cpu.com

well right now i'm lookin' at a intel xeon 2ghz 512k cache 533mhz fsb wit hyperthreading.

would that beat a dual athlon XP/MP 1800+?

[MrP]

not seen any benchmarks for a zeon to be honest.

try sites like 2cpu for any bencharks and see if they are using the same tests as places like hardocp, anandtech and tomshardware. that should give you some ides of its performance.

eitrher that or ask player0, he has a dual xeon setup at the mo i belive

toodle pip

[Drake]

Xeon will beat out MPs every turn, but only slightly. It is no contest between two 2GHz and a pair of 1800+, though.

Don't worry about watercooling for an Intel chip. Not that they can't get hot... They just seem to be a tad more air-cooling friendly. I believe the best OCer, ATM, is the 2.4GHz with a 400MHz FSB. Just up the FSB up 33 points, and viola! 3.2GHz, and nothing is running out of spec. Not sure if that's possibly with air cooling, though.

[WesM63]

I've seen some crazy P4 1.8a's at 3.2-3.4Ghz. I belevie I saw them at Xtreme systems.

[Drake]

Yea, 1.8a's are the sweet OCers, but as far as I've seen it's hit-or-miss if you break 3GHz or not.

[tripodal]

I would in all honestly reccomend a 1.8P4 with a dual channel board like the DFI NB80, or the like of asus or giga byte... memory bandwidth is king with large files and dual channel blows everything away right now.