Quad Core

Adrenalin

Adrenalin

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Ok people,

So i am officially looking for a CPU (Socket 775 because i am still living under a rock) that can increase the speed of me ripping DVD's to DivX and vice versa.

According to some forums, quad core's can increase the speed from 2 hours to 30min. Is this true? that would help me oh so much!

Remember Sockert 775.

Got 6GB of ram and an old 8900GT PCI-E Gfx Card (No laughing)

Board is a Gigabyte something bla bla fishpaste with DDR 2 & 3. Also got a semi ok CPU cooler that is doing the job well.

My old 3.0Ghz CPU is so old.. but man it has not given me a day of hassles!

Unless you can come up with a decent AMD board and CPU? I am quite liking AMD, always have liked the underdogs.

Can spend like R1500-R2000 on a quad core/dual core (overclocked)
 
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LOL, I was just about to also post a thread that I am looking for a AMD quad core CPU to replace my dual core one. :D
RebelTech has some decent prices on AMD processors, unfortunately not the one I want.
 
Psycho Pitbull said:
LOL, I was just about to also post a thread that I am looking for a AMD quad core CPU to replace my dual core one. :D
RebelTech has some decent prices on AMD processors, unfortunately not the one I want.
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That's right, hijack my thread... no really, go for it.

At least you know what you are looking for. I on the other hand... need a bit more advice.
 
A quad with hyper-threading will seriously reduce your decoding times. Well if, you're on dual core/single core chip at the moment, even a plain quad will do the trick.

You'd probably be better off spending the money on a new board, RAM & processor, since none of the 775 Quads have Hyperthreading.

Just save some cash & wait for the new Sandybridge chips. R2k on a 775 Quad seems like a waste to me when you can move to the latest Intel platform (with, or without, HT) for a bit more in a short while.

Q8300's are about R1300 & Q8400's about R1500.
 
FlatspinZA said:
A quad with hyper-threading will seriously reduce your decoding times. Well if, you're on dual core/single core chip at the moment, even a plain quad will do the trick.

You'd probably be better off spending the money on a new board, RAM & processor, since none of the 775 Quads have Hyperthreading.

Just save some cash & wait for the new Sandybridge chips. R2k on a 775 Quad seems like a waste to me when you can move to the latest Intel platform (with, or without, HT) for a bit more in a short while.

Q8300's are about R1300 & Q8400's about R1500.
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I was just thinking that about 15min after posting this.

but for R1300 i guess a Quad Core isn't TO bad? Those damn i7 CPU's are expensive :/
and Intel keep changing the socket types??? Whereas AMD seem to be AM2/3 forever.
 
Just buy a CUDA capable graphics card like the GTX 460 or better and use that to rip the DVD's :D

It'll transcode way faster than any quad/six core CPU can!

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I now saw that you already have a 9800GT. You can try using that to encode the videos too.

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Here's a free media encoder that can use CUDA: http://www.mediacoderhq.com/cuda/download.html

I actually want to try this with my 2x GTX 460 in SLI :)
 
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Pada said:
Just buy a CUDA capable graphics card like the GTX 460 or better and use that to rip the DVD's :D

It'll transcode way faster than any quad/six core CPU can!

Edit:
I now saw that you already have a 9800GT. You can try using that to encode the videos too.

Edit #2:
Here's a free media encoder that can use CUDA: http://www.mediacoderhq.com/cuda/download.html

I actually want to try this with my 2x GTX 460 in SLI :)
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Um, seriously? I made an error, I have a 8600GT. :( everything is so old. but the board is quite nice. Can support Quad Core and PCI-E 16x
 
When you say 3.0ghz, do you still have a P4? You should upgrade. You can get a cheap dual core which is way faster for a few hundred rands.
A good CPU is always a good buy, the Q9550 is very good. It will make a huge difference to your overall system speed. Even a Q6600 would be a huge upgrade. The nVidia GPU encoding is cool too, but you can already do it on your current setup as mentioned.
 
Adrenalin: the 8600GT supports CUDA too. See http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/CUDA
It would still be worth a shot to try and encode using CUDA.

The encoding performance difference between the GTX 460 and 8600GT would be massive.

Unfortunately you're in bit of a pickle, since getting a GTX 460 would bottleneck your CPU.
I've actually had a Inno3d GTX 460 768MB installed in my brother's Pentium 4 3.0GHz and I was able to play CoD4 @ 1680x1050 with everything maxed out, but my framerate wasn't too hot (30-80fps).
 
Pada said:
Just buy a CUDA capable graphics card like the GTX 460 or better and use that to rip the DVD's :D

It'll transcode way faster than any quad/six core CPU can!

Edit:
I now saw that you already have a 9800GT. You can try using that to encode the videos too.

Edit #2:
Here's a free media encoder that can use CUDA: http://www.mediacoderhq.com/cuda/download.html

I actually want to try this with my 2x GTX 460 in SLI :)
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Now, that's cool - I like that idea. Never looked into it - thanks.
 
Ok, thanks pada.

Busy downloading now... really want a Quad Core CPU. Found the Q9550 for R1199. check the hardware bargain sticky for details.

Apparently will increase my overall performance to? Hope so...
 
The quad core would most certainly increase your performance with a massive margin!

You should actually be able to play games with acceptable frame rates for a change :)
 
I have a Q6600 with a gtx280 and I can rip & recode (I use DVDFab) in 30 - 45min easily. But done with that ... I gots uncapped!
 
Hmm, that DVDFab software looks cool, but unfortunately it's not free like MediaCoder.

Seems like the trial version is valid for 30 days and is fully functional :D
 
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