Tbird vs. XP for Video Encoding?

[Namuna]

I've got a Tbird 1.33GHz now and have been debating whether I should jump on the XP bandwagon.

I've been reading up on what's different on the XP chips, but what does it equate to when comparing say a Tbird 1.4GHz vs. the XP 1600+ at same clock, when it comes to encoding video (say AVI to MPEG1/2 or MPEG2 to MPEG1).

Thanks for any info.

 

[microAmp]

Tomshardware
This is Mpeg to Divx

 

[Survey23]

Yep!!! I can see the 10 percent boost in same speed processors...I believe the hardware prefetch can really help here...I don't think it is much helped by the sse codings as I have a bit of experience with flaskmpeg and most of the optimizations rarely worked and most guides told you to stick to defaults....

The gain probably isn't worth it yet....Jack that maybe up to 1.5+ and you can hang with it a bit longer until 2000+ xp's come out...That is my path since my 1.4@1.5tbird actually best the 1600+ xp in the same test...fsb ocing will help performance as it increases memory bandwidth as well as computing power...

 

[Wind]

W/ 1.33 Ghz birds...I think u should wait for a while. For new model or price to come down.

 

[Dctm]

tt

 

[Diable]

A XP will improve your divx encoding times but not enough to justify buying a new chip. If your making VCD or SVCD using CCE or TMPGenc(version 2.0 or higher)getting a XP would give you a big improvment because there both heavily SSE enhanced.