At 01:30 PM 5/16/2014, you wrote:
Winterlight,
Really appreciate your opinions and insights. Bottom line, it seems, is
that you are saying I won't really see a large increase in performance from
a 5 year old system?
Even if you go with six core you won't notice a large improvement
unless you have a use for it. For me the six core decreased my HD
encoding time by a third... but I am encoding stuff all the time. And
Brian has a point... if you don't have a SSD in your system
now...then that is the way to go. Just add one and you might have all
the performance increase you are looking for right there.
Did I just purchase wisely in 2009? :)
In the last 5-10 years hardware in general has become so powerful
that almost nobody has a need for high end performance any more. I
was perfectly happy with my old 2008 build = Dual Core Quad, 16GB of
RAM, dual ATI 5570 Crossfire setup. And I would be happy right now if
I wasn't doing encoding. A lot of the reason I built my current
machine was just because I wanted it.
As a for instance, when running Ripbot264, the CPU usage is pegged at 100%
for several hours. This makes other programs sluggish and slow to respond. I
was looking for some "relief" in this area.
hard to say. I don't know the program and sometimes poorly written
software can bring any system down. However, if the encoding software
is any good it will use all the processing power you have, regardless
of other program needs or the speed of the CPU. It is up to the OS to
manage this for you.
Would waiting for the "next big thing" help, and how long is the wait? It
seem like the next generation is always "6 months away" or "next quarter!"
I don't think you should wait but the next big thing is even going to
be more powerful... and you don't really need what you have now. Is
it worth spending thousands, and a lot of time and hassle to deal
with this issue? Perhaps... but only you can answer that question.
