Re: [MP3 ENCODER] Hardware reccomendation

[Mark Taylor]

> 
> I am about to upgrade my motherboard and I am looking for suggestions
> on what the minimum horsepower needed to do >= real-time encoding on
> a AMD or a Cyrix systems. !(Intel inside)
> 
> What is the encoding process bounded by?  I/O operations or
> computational speed?
> 
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> Richard A. Smith                         Bitworks, Inc.               
> [EMAIL PROTECTED]               501.846.5777                        
> Sr. Design Engineer        http://www.bitworks.com   
> 

Computational speed, and cache size seem to be the most important
factors.  But anything you buy today will have no problem encoding
(even with "lame -h") at faster than real time.  

My 600mhz athalon is about 5x.

Mark

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