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AMD vs P4 question

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Originally posted by: ams30gts
so im assuming...for my main purposes (video encoding) that the p4 would most likely be better for me.

money is really not the issue on this. im not going to OC most likely.
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I must commend you on your patience with this thread. If I had asked that question and seen the flamewar that ensued, I'm not sure I would have checked back in. Anyway, it is pretty widely accepted that the P4 is faster at video encoding than AMD (XP or 64) in a test between two comparable cpu's, while the Athlon 64's have the edge in gaming. For your intended purposes, I would recommend the P4.
 
Originally posted by: ams30gts
so im assuming...for my main purposes (video encoding) that the p4 would most likely be better for me.

money is really not the issue on this. im not going to OC most likely.
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Yes. DC DDR + P4 + HT = cost-effective compromise to a dually.
 
Originally posted by: ams30gts
budget is probably around $250 ish. its not really a big issue. gaming is already fine on my comp right now. so i would say video encoding is more important
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Get the P4 its your best bet as its great for encoding, and despite its not as impotrant to you it might be good to know that it would thrash a 2500+ in gaming at stocks.
 
Originally posted by: ams30gts
well....what i will be using the comp for is some gaming and video encoding. as in games....i only play like war craft...ea sports games...counter stike once in a while. in video encoding...i use tmpgenc and CCE. i also do a lot of work with adobe premiere and photoshop

i will most likely not be overclocking the cpu

and i am running win xp and raid hds

and 1gb kingston pc2700 valueram
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If you want fast video encoding performance, get the P4. If you want to save a bit of money and do overnight rendering, get the AMD.

It really is as simple as that 🙂
 
the increased cost of the intel system is not justified by the performance you would gain in video encoding, go with the amd
 
I too will not be happy with cpu power until I can encode in seconds.
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Don't leave out fold those protiens and crunch those SETI WU's in minutes flat too! :beer: Till that day comes you will not be hearing me say computers are fast enough 😉
 
Man I forgot so much I'm gonna have to beef the Geek factor to hang with you Guys again😀

Oh Dapunisher check your PMs brudda!.😉
 
I dont think some of you understand how important "only 10-20%" improvement is to someone who encodes a lot. That means 6 hours instead of 8 hours....20 min instead of 25....it adds up....I do agree that IF encoding is your forte, then take the P4 or a high-end AMD64..but if you plan to OC, its much better to grab the P4 and clock the hell out of the FSB with some good RAM...I game mostly on my cpu and like AMD, but I understand why some people like the advantages of faster encoding...
 
And what can you possibly be encoding that much legally ? Can you explain ? I encode the 8mm movies, and one school play, and thats10 hours a year.

So what are you guys doing when you "encode" ?
 
Originally posted by: Markfw900
And what can you possibly be encoding that much legally ? Can you explain ? I encode the 8mm movies, and one school play, and thats10 hours a year.



So what are you guys doing when you "encode" ?
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I have so much VHS-C video of my son and family to encode it'll come to a good site more than 10hrs on it's own brudda 😉 Before I bought DVD burners I was backing up my DVD collection with DVD2SVCD with CCE as the encoder and a movie like Braveheart could take near 8hrs at the time to complete. Thanks to DVDShrink and a burner the process takes less than a hour a DVD :beer:
 
lots of home movies. old and new. a lot from my dv camcorder. using premiere and cce, it takes forever right now to encode a 2 hr video in cce with 9 passes. your talking about 24 hours.

i also backup a lot of dvds. even a 10% increase would be very noticable in encoding. gaming is already fine on my current comp. so i dont worry about that at all
 
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