encoding slow on new system!!!!

[fmj]

i just built a new pc amd athlon 3800 dual core cpu
i have 2 gigs of corsair twin mx
dual 10000rpm raptor 74gb hard drives in raid 0
7800gt video card
600watt xion psu
asus slipremium
my problem is when i run dvd shrink to encode a movie its taking twice as long as my intel pentium 4 2.6 everything else on the new pc works great runs all my games no problems!!! just wondering if anyone may have any suggestions????

[ebenton]

Check to make sure all of your DVDShrink settings are the same on both PCs. Make sure you don't have it set for deep analysis on the new PC.

[Prot]

Are you ripping with your dvd burner or a dvd-rom drive?

[kschang]

Did you rip to movie to HD already using DVDDecrypter?

[Krispy Kritter]

Encoding is not any faster. The 3800 has a cpu speed of 2ghz, your old machine was a 2.6ghz. It should be the close to the same or slower.

What you can do is run 2 instances of dvdshrink, but your HD will then be the bottleneck.

Or, you can get a program such as DVD2One. Nice prog and worth the money. The latest version (2.x), is specifically written for dual core cpus. Encoding time should be about 1/4 of your old time.

[redwudz]

What Krispy Kritter said.

If you only have one hard drive (The RAID 0) you need a second hard drive. I wouldn't use SATA for boot anyway, but to each his own. I gave up on RAID 0 and use separate drives for better throughput and dependability. Partitioning is not a good alternative to separate drives on separate controllers or channels.

2GB of RAM won't help much with encoding speed as encoding won't use much more than 512M max most of the time anyway. But it will help somewhat with multitasking.

Depending on your motherboard, you might look into some mild overclocking to raise your encoding speed. You should be able to raise your FSB speed up 15% without any real heat or dependability problems.