Atlon 2400 to atlon 2800 is it worth a 100$

[gl22man]

Like the topic says i can upgrade from my 2400 athlon to the 2800 athlon with 333 fsb for around 85$ will it be woth it???Will i see an increase in speed and encoding time??
Mike...

[version20]

If you check www.tomshardware.com they recently did a review of almost every cpu in existence since the pentium 100. They give different benchmarks for video, audio, 3d applications, etc.

I was thinking about upgrading my xp1700+ to a 2400 but after seeing that I would only gain approximately 10ms in render time decided that it is quite obviously not worth it.

I doubt it will be worth it for you either as the jump from 2400 to 2800 is not that significant.

On the other hand, if you went with a new motherboard and went the intel 2.8ghz route with hyperthreading, it could be significant. I've always been an AMD loyalist, but that hyperthreading stuff in the new p4's may be what causes my conversion to Intel. The benchmarks speak for themselves.

-v20

[edplayer]

from that review:

MainConcept V 1.3 ( DV 1.2GB to MPEG2)
ATi Radeon 9700 Pro - Windows XP
720x576/25 fps/Audio

2800+ 332.8 sec
2400+ 376.5 sec

http://www6.tomshardware.com/cpu/20030217/cpu_charts-26.html

[ZippyP.]

2800+ 332.8 sec
2400+ 376.5 sec

332.8 / 376.5 = 0.884 or about an 11.6% decrease in conversion time.

[Vejita-sama]

This is really a personal choice. I have an AMD 2200XP, bases on my predictions a 3pass VBR encode on a 2hr movie would be 1.6hrs faster with a 3000XP (4hrs vs. 5.6hrs). However, whenever I encode I just walk away from my PC (work/bed) and deal with it when it's done. Since that's normally a 6-8hr block it really doesn't matter.

Authoring DVDs faster would be nice. But much like going from a 16x CDRW to a 24CDRW, I have to sit there and wait and the predicted time savings just aren't there.

Still _IF_ I had the money....