I recently did my first AMD setup since the K6 days. I had a third dual
PIII PC that I used as a PATA storage box, and since I wanted to
occasionally use it for AIW recording, and it had a problem recording
audio, I decided it was time to make it more useful with a major upgrade.
I read a article in Maximum PC which called the new new Semperon 64 3400 a
"hell of a deal" and I realized I could do this upgrade, of motherboard,
RAM and Semperon for under 300 bucks.
The Semperon, runs very cool, and is based on the new 90 core but uses the
754 socket. A review in Extreme Tech
http://www.extremetech.com/article2/0,1697,1841934,00.asp showed better
then Athlon 64 3400+ socket 754 performance on encoding.
http://www.extremetech.com/article2/0,1697,1842194,00.asp ....So I thought
for my purposes it was a great bargain, and since it ran so cool, it would
make a nice CPU for a future Media Center box.
Right after I installed, patched, and setup my new Semperon box, I decided
to run an encoding benchmark test against my P4 media workstation, and my
primary Xeon Workstation. Here are the results. I was surprised the
Semperon lagged this far behind. TMPEnc is probably tweaked for Intel, and
HT, probably is the big difference here.
Original File Recorded with AIW 800XT 32min 24 sec of broadcast video
Starting File Size 1.55 GB (1,674,397,696 bytes)
Finished File Size, After re-encoding 1.34 GB (1,446,721,540 bytes)
Input
Video MPEG-2, NTSC, 720X480, 61.76 MB/Minute
Audio 48,000 KHz 16 Bit, Stereo
Encoder TMPEnc 3.0 Xpress supports SMP, supports HT
encoded at Standard NTSC DVD settings to 33 percent of a DVD size.
Output
Video MPEG-2, NTSC, 720X480, Interlace, 29.97fps
Audio MPEG-1, Audio Layer II, 48000HZ Stereo, 192Kbits/sec
The PCs
Xeon dual 3.06 HT 512cache 533 FSB 4GB of RAM _ 51 processes
running 49 minutes 54 seconds
P4 Prescott 3.4 2MB cache 800FSB 2GB RAM 1 hour 8 minutes 28 seconds
Semperon 64 3400 90core 256KB cache 1GB RAM 30 processes Running 1
hour Forty Six Minutes 39 seconds
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What is the fastest socket 754 CPU?
