Maybe I should be investigation other areas where I can see improvement. I saw a dramatic speed increase when I added a Samsung 830 SSD as a boot drive. I was able to overclock my 2.66GHz i7 to 3.1 GHz with water cooling. I guess I will look into options for the Ripbot264 software. I use it to transcode HD video files to Android and DVD file sizes.
Again, thanks for the input. Jim Jim Maki jwm_maill...@comcast.net > -----Original Message----- > From: Hardware [mailto:hardware-boun...@lists.hardwaregroup.com] On > Behalf Of Winterlight > At 01:30 PM 5/16/2014, you wrote: > >Winterlight, > 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. > > 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 b
