I have a friend who wants to do some DivX ecoding with his computer. He currently has the following system:
Athlon XP 1600+
Asus A7V266E
Samsung ATA100 80 GB RAID 0 (I think he has two 40 GB drives in the array)
ATI Radeon LE 32 MB
He wants to upgrade his computer to get better encoding performance. What would give him the biggest performance boost?
A new video card - he is considering the GeForce4 TI 200 and the Radeon 9500 or a new CPU?
I thought that video encoding was most dependent on CPU speed and the video card did not help at all. However, this link on ATI's website trumpets some relationship with DivX ATI-DivX partnership link discusses the advantages of using ATI's newest cards for DivX decoding - would the cards help with encoding as well?
Thanks.
Athlon XP 1600+
Asus A7V266E
Samsung ATA100 80 GB RAID 0 (I think he has two 40 GB drives in the array)
ATI Radeon LE 32 MB
He wants to upgrade his computer to get better encoding performance. What would give him the biggest performance boost?
A new video card - he is considering the GeForce4 TI 200 and the Radeon 9500 or a new CPU?
I thought that video encoding was most dependent on CPU speed and the video card did not help at all. However, this link on ATI's website trumpets some relationship with DivX ATI-DivX partnership link discusses the advantages of using ATI's newest cards for DivX decoding - would the cards help with encoding as well?
Thanks.