what is the biggest bottleneck on my PC?

[robphelan]

i'm ripping my DVDs to harddrive using Fair Use Wizard(which is great, btw). I know decoding/encoding takes time no matter how fast your system is.

I'm wondering what, if anything, I can do to speed things up. And, if I upgrade a component, what approximate percent increase would it make(in other words is it worth the upgrade price)? I average 2.75-3 hours per DVD.

Win XP Pro SP1
P4 2.4GHz
1Gb RAM
16 x DVD ROM
7200 rpm ATA harddrive

DVD ROM is on separate ribbon than hdd.

thanks.
rob.

 

[Ike0069]

Get a faster CPU, or OC the one you have. A 2.4 P4 is definitely holding you back.

 

[imported_fatal]

I have used DVDshrink and it takes less than 1 hour with my old CPU, an athlon 1900+ and 512MB ram. Have you tried a different program? http://www.dvdshrink.org/

 

[ohnnyj]

Upgrade to SP2 (may not give you much of a performance boost but there is no reason not to, and, no, it will not hose your system).

As others have said a faster processor will help out. What hard drive do you currently have and what brand of DVD drive?

 

[sharkeeper]

In order to rip fast, you need the right tools.

Get a Toshiba SD-M1612 and flash it with the new full rip firmware and you will be very happy.

 

[Thurgo0dy]

Get service pack 2 and up your CPU.

 

[nick1985]

is your CPU an A,B, or C model?

 

[NumbaJuan]

If your CPU does not support HT technology then you are missing out on quite a lot.

 

[Cares]

What kind of RAM exactly? PC2700? Which 2.4 chip is it? How much MB cache on your drives?

 

[DotheDamnTHing]

whats your mobo?

 

[RelaxTheMind]

get a dual board with win2k3 at least 8gb of ram... scsi drive or craptor

this way you can buffer the entire movie onto ram and not have those long pauses.

well if not... using the LATEST software helps you the most. I second dvdshrink. Depending on the movie and how "dark" it is I also finish between 1-2.5 hours.

http://dvd.box.sk ;-)

 

[airfoil]

Whats the brand of that DVD-ROM?

 

[robphelan]

ok.. trying DVD Shrink right now.. will post results later..

unsure about CPU version.

ram is PC3200
mobo is an AOpen AX4SPE-N
DVD ROM is showing up as a generic 52x32 combo DVD/CDRw (I think it was a compusa drive).

i should also mention that Fair Use Wizard is outputting the video as XVid files at 700mb - to fit on a CD if need be.

 

[SrGuapo]

Originally posted by: robphelan
unsure about CPU version.

Does it support HT? There are free programs (CPU-z for one) that will ID your CPU. Google it. Some of the 2.4s are excellent OCers, and I know nothing about that board, but you could probably pull at least another couple hundred MHz out of it...

 

[rise]

if you're running 3200 ram i would guess you have a p4 2.4c 800fsb which would be HT. same cpu here and i it takes me less 30-45 mins to rip. something is definitely off. i use dvd shrink or dvd decryptor.

edit- didn't see the format you're using, not sure if that accounts for the slow down, maybe these guys can tell ya.

 

[ribbon13]

Originally posted by: robphelan
DVD ROM is showing up as a generic 52x32 combo DVD/CDRw (I think it was a compusa drive)

Yeah... I would definately think about something a lil nicer.