Re: [MP3 ENCODER] Hardware reccomendation

[Segher Boessenkool]

> > 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?
> 
> computational speed
> On an embedded system with a K6-200 (without L2 cache!) and 
> gogo 2.31 there was still CPU power left for other things.

...which means you are *not* cpu bound.

Ciao,

Segher
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