Well it would depend on the software doing the encode. If it's not
off-loading to the GPU then the CPU would be high utilization. At least
that's my understanding.
On Apr 2, 2011 3:15 PM, "Anthony Q. Martin" <[email protected]> wrote:
> Difficult to know the mix of the work. Crunching video right now the all
four cores of my 2500k at 100%, with corresponding CPU temps running high.
If the vidcard is doing anything it hard to tell.
>
> Sent from my iPad
>
> On Apr 2, 2011, at 4:35 PM, Joshua MacCraw <[email protected]> wrote:
>
>> With the video cards doing the heavy lifting on encodes there is more
>> benefit from them than CPU anyway.
>> On Apr 2, 2011 12:33 PM, "Anthony Q. Martin" <[email protected]> wrote:
>>> You won't see gee-whiz fast every thing since your system is more than
>> able to do simple things very fast. All you can really impact are tasks
that
>> take lots of wall time for you. If you are happy to encode at night, I
don't
>> see what you gain in this upgrade. Me, I like to do stuff while I'm awake
>> and I want it to finish faster. When I edit, I'm tweaking over and over
til
>> I get what I want, so I get the benefit of the speed improvement. I do
like
>> having 16GB of RAM. It may affect your max over clock. I got the 1600
stuff,
>> but I'm not convinced i see a big benefit other than on some benchmarks,
but
>> the price was good so I don't regret getting it.
>>>
>>> Sent from my iPad
>>>
>>> On Apr 2, 2011, at 2:22 PM, Winterlight <[email protected]>
>> wrote:
>>>
>>>> I am currently running a Quad Core 9650 at 3.45Ghz on a Asus Maximus
>> Formula II with 8GB of DDR2 800 that I built in August of 08.
>>>>
>>>> The rest of my components are good and don't require an upgrade
>>>> 85o watt Seasonic
>>>> two Sapphire 5770s
>>>> Intel SSD for boot and a 300GB Raptor plus a collection of data storage
>> drives.
>>>>
>>>> All running Win7Pro SP1
>>>>
>>>> It does what I need and it does it well, but with all the excitement
>> about Sandy bridge it got me thinking about upgrading my motherboard, RAM
>> and CPU this summer, once all the problems shake out. Right now I am
>> thinking about a 2600K Sandy Bridge, with a ASUS Rampage III Formula and
>> 16GB of RAM.... what speed of RAM am I looking for?
>>>>
>>>> I use my PC for real work, day in and day out, and if I could just
>> upgrade the components without redoing everything I would be more
inclined
>> to upgrade sooner rather then later. I am not interested in just getting
>> benchmarks. My question is will it matter... will I really be able to
>> notice. I do video editing, and encoding and I am sure I will be able to
>> notice there, but generally I encode over night so an hour here or there
>> isn't a big deal to me.
>>>>
>>>> Am I looking at a noticeably gee whiz faster everything, or am I barely
>> going to notice in my day to day real world use?
>>>> thanks
>>>> w
>>>>
