Its power director, which is 64 bit. It claims all kinds of hardware 
acceleration, but I have not paid my attention to it. Maybe I should. I plan to 
do a lot of vid editing and transcoding.

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On Apr 2, 2011, at 7:19 PM, Joshua MacCraw <[email protected]> wrote:

> 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
>>>>> 

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