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Upgrading from Athlon 1GHz?

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davidkay

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I'm looking to build a whole new computer. I currently have an Athlon 1GHz with 384Mb PC133 MHz RAM.

I'm mainly looking for increase in performance in Video Encoding on Mpeg 1, 2 and 4 as well as general Windows performance boost. Is it really worth upgrading just yet? Is there anything coming i should wait for (been kinda out of the PC scene for a bit).

My friend has a Pentium 4 1.7GHz using SD-RAM, but his MPEG1 encoding times are exactly the same as my Athlon 1GHz. Is that due to the RAM he's using or have i met the performance mark for MPEG encoding already?

also, It takes me 3 hours to encode a DVD to VCD. How long would it take if i bought an Athlon 2100+ based system with DDR333 RAM?

 
Originally posted by: davidkay
I'm looking to build a whole new computer. I currently have an Athlon 1GHz with 384Mb PC133 MHz RAM.

Is there anything coming i should wait for (been kinda out of the PC scene for a bit).
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I don't think so. The desktop Hammer release is scheduled for October (of this year), it's just too far away. I think that the best price/performance CPU right now is the P4 1.6A, combined with an i845D/SiS 645DX mobo it can be OCed to 2.4GHz in most cases. The only thing that's coming real soon (in about a week) are the new P4 core Celerons with 128K L2. I think they'll cost just about $100 and less, will start at 1.7 and 1.8GHz. But I think the performance will be horrible compared to Athlon.
 
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