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can a single cpu do multitasking?

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VoodooEvil

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Hello,
I can not really afford a dual cpu setup, mainly because I uprade my motherboard and cpu to keep up with the gameing scene.
I also do a lot of video editing such as converting all my family videos (tapes) to DVD.
What I want to know is if i have a single cpu (currently an amd 2200+) can i play online games like quake 3, while my videos are being encoded? This encodeing take a long time and keeps me from doing other pc tasks.
Or is tgis only possible with a multi processor motherboard and cpu?

Thanks for any help or ideas...Joe
 
Encode your movies at nite, or when your not there. It's free, except for the electricity. Cause if your converting, I'm assuming it's not time critical and your doing it at your leisure. How are you converting your home videos, btw? 😛
 
thanks guys.................

i am using dazzle hollywood bridge (with firewire) and using their software (moviestar 5) . I burn them onto DVD's

My current system
AMD 2200+
soyo mobo platinum ultra333
1 gig ddr 2700
raid 0 with 2 40gig wd drives
ati 9700 pro
2 sony dvd burners
creative labs live card

 
Even with a multiprocessor CPU I don't think you could accomplish that. Both programs will try to take the most CPU bandwidth possible (Q3 wants more power to run higher FPS, the encoder wants more bandwidth to encode faster). This is a task for two computers to do simultaneously. You could build a second "encoding only" rig for probably less than you think. All you'd really need is the CPU/mobo/decent sized HD/256MB DDR/really cheap or onboard video, etc.

For the price of a multiprocessor capable Board and expensive multiprocessor CPUs (ie Xeon or Athlon MP), you can easily build a second rig.
 
Set the priority of the program to low and it will only use spare cpu cycles. You'll still get max performance when you're not doing anything and it shouldn't interfere with Q3. I encoded movies throughout college this way.
 
Well, even if you had a dual cpu setup, your results would not be satisfactory.

Video encoding and gaming are two of the most stressful tasks that one can accomplish with a computer. They stress the cpu(s), the PCI/AGP bus, memory and disk subsystems.

Your best bet, as others have suggested, is to setup your existing system so that you encode when the pc is not being used for gaming.
 
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