$1000 to spend on a fast video encoding machine "Need Help"

[NDENT2003]

Originally posted by: FishTankX
Do me a favor.

Go to tomshardware and look at their Athlon64 benchmarks. It shows the P4 2.6C only a *little* behind the Athlon64 3200+ in DV to MPEG-2 encoding.. Do yourself a favor and get a P4 or 2 Xeon's for simultaneous encodes.

Yeah Fish i'm going Intel.I'm not sure if i'll go for the 2 Xeon's as thats gonna be alot extra but for sure a P4 2.6c +.

 

[FishTankX]

How about a single Xeon first, then a second one once you start working it harder?

Being able to run two jobs at full speed is very lucrative, no?

 

[NDENT2003]

Originally posted by: FishTankX
How about a single Xeon first, then a second one once you start working it harder?

Being able to run two jobs at full speed is very lucrative, no?

Yeah that'll be great but how will i run it etc.I never had 2 cpus in 1 system so i'll have no clue on how to perform 2 different encodes at a time.Like will there be away for me to select that i wanna use the 2 cpus at a time.Sorry but i'm new to this pc building etc.

 

[NDENT2003]

TTT