CPU SPEED, 1.1 GIG ,TO 1.4,

[THE RIPPER]

I HAVE A 1.1 GIG ATHLON,AND WAS WONDERING IF IT WAS WORTH IT TO UPGRADE TO A 1.4 GIG. ALL FEEDBACK IS APPRECIATED.

[statuspending]

hmmm...i have a p2-300

i definitely think it's worth it to upgrade...but only if you send your *old* 1.1ghz cpu&mb to me.

[Phule]

hmmm....

You'd be talking about a rough performance increase of almost 30%.....

Is what you are paying for the 1.4 be worth a 30% CPU improvement?? Depends on what you're doing with it.

Using Word or Excel?? Don't bother...Statuspending's p2-300 would do you just as well...

S/VCD capping/conversion? Definitely!

Phule

[THE RIPPER]

THE 1.4GIG T BIRD IS 169.00,AT PRICEGRABBER.JUST PLACED MY ORDER TODAY.

[aznguy]

its not a 30 % increase...

and its not worth it... it prob increase 3%

[DVman]

I guess you have some problems with your system
when you want to upgrade.

You are better off:
Increasing memory at least to 256 MB
If your MB supports DDR memory buy this faster type of memory
Do you use Harddrive ATA/66 or 100 ??
Ugrading Operating system to Windows 2000

If all of this you have done then you buy 1.4 Athlon

[THE RIPPER]

RIGHT NOW I AM RUNNING WINDOWS ME,WITH 384 OF SD RAM.I'VE RIPPED 50+ MOVIES WITH MY 1.1..FOR 169.00 I GET 300 MORE MGH.ALSO BOUGHT 256 MORE SD RAM ,FOR 30 BUCKS.UNFORTUNATLY,MY MAIN BOARD,DOES NOT SUPPORT DDR MEMORY.

[Operationz]

It won't be a 30% increase, but it's definately worth it!!!!
Athlons kick ass at video crunching, no doubt!

[neto]

Wait pal, i just upgraded my PIII-800mHz to a PIV-1.3gHz and what i found? i got only a 10% faster performance, i don't know why but what a friend of mine told me is that it would be better if i would be upgraded to a dual-proccesor system with (maybe) two PIII-800mHz because some programs take the advantage of dual-proccesor (TMPEG,...).

So, now im looking for a dual-proccesor system!

[Cosmo Kramer]

I currently have Athlon 1200@1400 with 256mb CAS-2 SDRAM and i just desided that i wont upgrade untill i get atleast 2500mhz+ converting video is slow, too slow even with 2500mhz machine, atleast for me.. so i can wait.

Cosmo

[silenttalk]

here is the score:-
Tests I have run

1. Ap4 1.4ghx is only 2% faster than an athlon 1.4ghz

2. P4 1.4GHz is about 60% faster than a Duron 750

3. Dont upgrade memory over 256mb, just look at the graphs in win 2k, Tmpgenc only used about 140mb out of the 768mb i had in the pc

[next]

I watched Ubid auction off 211 Athlon 1.2 cpu's last night. I believe the lowest winning bit was for $89. Amazing considering these were retail boxed cpu's that included a heatsink and fan. Total cost including shipping was less than $100.

It's getting easier to upgrade the cpu from a cost perspective.

[mgs666]

i have an athlon 1400@1566 and it take 2 hours to code a divx to vcd film (1h40 long).

[fuji250]

overclock that 1.1ghz, you could probably get it up to around 1.4. ive been able to get my Duron 900 to about 1200-1300mhz, of course, the screen wont turn on but that's another story in itself.

[incognito]

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Wait pal, i just upgraded my PIII-800mHz to a PIV-1.3gHz and what i found? i got only a 10% faster performance, i don't know why but what a friend of mine told me is that it would be better if i would be upgraded to a dual-proccesor system with (maybe) two PIII-800mHz because some programs take the advantage of dual-proccesor (TMPEG,...).

So, now im looking for a dual-proccesor system!
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I'm very surprised, based on published benchmarks I've
seen, that you only see a 10% speed increase in video
processing-- I've seen claims of a nearly 2x difference
in Flask mpeg4 encoding. I haven't seen any published
benchmarks using, say, tmpeg for mpeg2 encoding, but I'd
expect those scores do show more than a 10% difference,
especially if you're frameserving from flask.

How are you measuring a 10% speedup?

A dual processor system can be kind of expensive, given
the high price of the PIII, the higher price of dual athlon
boards, and the Astronomical price of the P4 Xeon. I
would be reluctant to dole out the cash after I'd just
bought a P4. And SMP isn't everything: in the benchmarks
I've mentioned above, a high-end single p4 actually managed
to surpass a dual Athlon system doing Mpeg4 encoding.

If you're dead set on it, I would at least get a dual
motherboard that offers support for the newest P3 core
(MSI is the only one I know of that does). On that note,
you should know that P3's over 1.2GHZ come in two flavors:
the desktop that will eventually be called a celeron and
is not SMP capable, and the server version which IS smp
capable but will be doubtlessly more expensive.

On the other hand, my own rather meager dual celeron
set-up still manages to deliver 11fps for vcd encoding and
4-9 fps (depending on settings) for mpeg2, and if I happen
to be playing a game or burning a cd I only see a drop-off
of 0.5 - 1.1 fps. Not bad for a 2-year old system, I think.

[tuan711]

If anyone interest performance improvement data between single and dual CPU, here it is: (this data have been posted on serveral other posts so if u seen it already then it's old news)

AVI Clip: 5min16sec (9500 frames)

Encoder: TMPGEnc beta12
Template: Sefy's SxVCD for NTSC Enhanced (Mpeg2 352x240 CQ_VBR_100)

Total encoding time with:

One P3 700MHz CPU = 17min30sec or ~9.048fps (9500frames/1050sec)
Two P3 700MHz CPUs = 11min15sec or ~ 14.074fps (9500frames/675sec)

Compared 9fps to 14fps is about a %50 performance increase.

The same AVI clip (5min16sec) took about 4min20sec. The output format is 720x480 Mpeg2 CBR@6Mbps DVD Program stream using CCE_SP2.5 on my Dual P3 700MHz.

[statuspending]

man i wish i had a p2-400!

[THE RIPPER]

HEY GUYS,THANKS FOR ALL THE FEEDBACK.I WAS WONDERING IF I SHOULD GET A NEW FAN FOR THE 1.4,OR IF I COULD JUST USE THE ONE FROM THE 1.1 .

[THE RIPPER]

JUST TESTED MY 1.4,ALMOST 2 HOURS QUICKER DOING SVCD IN TMPEG.