On 21 May 2008, at 04:00, Winterlight wrote:
At 02:41 PM 5/20/2008, you wrote:
Why would you get a 3Ghz quad, 4GB of ram, and x38 mainboard... and
then run a 32bit OS?
The performance gain for a 64 bit is not as big as you are making it
out to be, and there are lots of issues. At least from what I have
read. Take a look at this months editors comments in MaxiumPC on
Vista64.
I'm using Vista64 here, and I haven't encountered any issues,
admittedly I'm mainly using that for gaming, preferring to get into
OSX when not actively running a game.. but it's behaved itself.
and, I didn't say anything about performance gains?
Although video encoding is one of the places those extra general
purpose registers in AMD64 mode can show themselves, the system being
able to see all the ram is nice too :)
One thing I am sensing as a little bit strange is... your media box
is
going to vastly outstrip your primary pc?
yeah, because editing video and encoding video is where I need the
horsepower. Not in my day to day business work. I don't need a
Quadcore to browse, email, work with Word and Excel, and play game
of chess. But a Quadcore can probably take a encoding job that takes
my P4 3.4 six hours and turn it into 45 minutes.. at least I am
hoping. Besides my primary PC is a dual Xeon 3.06 with 4GB of RAM,
raptor drives, and a X1950. not exactly a clunker.
The part that'll sting a bit for you is that 3.06Ghz Netburst Xeons
will get kicked around by a 1.86Ghz Core 2 Duo, the Xeon box isn't a
clunker, but... well, Netburst always was a bit rubbish :p
I've got a 3Ghz Irwindale Poweredge here (only a single socket is
occupied) and... It's slower than the 2Ghz Athlon64's, it's EPICALLY
slower than the E8400 box I'm sitting at now... it really is like 3.5x
slower, and that's without cranking the E8400 up to silly levels
what videocard are you
considering for the media box?
I happen to have a Matrox APVE that I was thinking of using. It was
designed to do video editing. I only need HD support. I am not
interested in games.
Or at least games I couldn't play on my primary PC.
Presumably using component out, that board doesn't have HDMI smarts
from what a quick google tells me..
one thing to watch out for is HDCP support btw, being able to play blu-
ray stuff at full res is.. well, at least some of the point :)
-JB
