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.
Sent from my iPad 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 >>>>>
