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    Blow my money!! New rig for Photographer

    I'll answer this in a different way. I read most trade magazines, subscribe to Lynda and NAPP training, and own many mainstream books pertaining to this topic. About 3-4 years ago the trade and pros reflected your viewpoint, I have not seen anyone advocate CRT for any use in a long time. So...
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    Blow my money!! New rig for Photographer

    Been doing Photoshop since 5.0 and use CS3 now, shoot with a Nikon D200 and regularly touch up photos 150-200MB. Also do heavy work in Premiere CS3. First list is good and I will tell you why I differ with the comments that follow. 8GB is too much right now but assuming you will use...
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    New Dell Encoding performance against older Gigabyte

    Looked at Proc Explorer and all readings are the same (threads, priority, working set, etc.) except cpu. CPU is showing between 63-75% with explorer so the Perfmon is wrong but Dell is still pegged at about 97%. Also updated the Bios and rebooted, but no change.
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    New Dell Encoding performance against older Gigabyte

    Before anyone asks... Ran CPUZ against both and they are identical for voltage, stepping, model, revision (both G0)...
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    New Dell Encoding performance against older Gigabyte

    Will do, but in the mean time here is the test I just ran. Both boxes running the same file. I used Performance Monitor and took some system performance snapshots as well. The Gigabyte completed a 3GB file (1080i, 29.97 fps, 2 pass vbr) in 54 minutes; the Dell took 2 hours and 31 minutes...
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    New Dell Encoding performance against older Gigabyte

    Both good thought trains, I can add a drive to the Dell and test again. I will see if any Dell overhead processes are running I can kill. I did some research on the 4GB Vista suggestion and although fairly recently true, everything I can find in the past two months seems to encourage 4GB as...
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    New Dell Encoding performance against older Gigabyte

    An interesting thought, I wouldn't have gone there. SP1 was supposed to implement the fixes to the earlier problems, Anandtech discuss them in great detail some time back. I will take a look at this approach. Thanks, this helps...
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    New Dell Encoding performance against older Gigabyte

    Thanks Vista Ultimate SP1 on both; Premiere CS3 with current updates on both; background processes on both are the same i.e. Symantec AV, Windows Defender; no other third party packages. Gigabyte uses GeForce 7600 GT 256 MB; Dell has ATI Radeon 3800 1GB. Single SATA drives with no RAID...
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    New Dell Encoding performance against older Gigabyte

    Sorry, thought that was enough - like what? Sorry, I seriously don't know what else relates to performance. Thanks.
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    New Dell Encoding performance against older Gigabyte

    I bought a new Dell desktop to use for encoding video (no heckling please). It has a Quad 6600 4GB 800 DDR2 and 500 GB SATA. I have updated the power supply (Hiper 680watt) and video card (Radeon 3850 1GB). The board is based on a P35 chipset. My existing is a home built using Gigabyte...