The most processor-intensive thing I do is audio encoding. The new Intel Core Duos seem particularly good at this...take a look here:
http://www23.tomshardware.com/cpu.html?modelx=33&model1=430&model2=464&chart=178 ...the E6600 and E6700 would be awesome for this. I'm currently using an Intel P4C "Northwood" 2.8 GHz chip, it's so old it's not on this chart. There are faster processors than mine but if you look at charts like this you'll note there isn't huge leaps forward, just steady incremental improvements. However the results for the E6600 and E6700 are HUGE improvements over their next-nearest competition. At the time, my P4C cost the same as the E6600 now does...hmm. I can't say that I'm lacking for CPU power though. Encoding is fast enough and I wouldn't spend $1000 just to get it faster - even much faster. It's not like it takes 40 minutes or anything. -- Mark Lanctot ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Mark Lanctot's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=2071 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=30559 _______________________________________________ discuss mailing list [email protected] http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss
