3.2GHz P4 Prescott or Athlon 64 3400+ (2.4 GHz S754)

[aidanjm]

Originally posted by: Mears
Post processing.

and just how much "post processing" are you doing?

 

[Azsen]

I would have thought the hyper-threading in a P4 would be more useful here. Encoding uses up a fair bit of the CPU, so if you are encoding streaming TV/video to MPEG/Avi and the hard drive that would free up more of the processor to do other tasks like watching the TV/DVD?

 

[Mears]

Originally posted by: aidanjm

Originally posted by: Mears
Post processing.

and just how much "post processing" are you doing?

Since I don't currently have a HTPC, none. When I do have one, I'm going to enable and utilize as many features as my cpu can handle.