PC recommendation for encoding Video

[rob3rtz]

Hi there,
it's been a while since I keep up to date with the technology

can someone suggest me good configuration for encoding
I used to get Dual Processor for encoding

but since there are new 'Dual Core' CPU out there
does anyone know which one is faster to encode
"dual xeon" or "single CPU dual core"

I kinda thinking getting 2 Gb of Memory and cheap video card, I think the video card will not affect the speed of encoding right ?

also anyone know increase speed if we using HDD raptor ?

Thanks

[BJ_M]

it stands to reason using the fastest cpu and subsystem will produce the fastest encoding times ....

a dual xeon (of the latest type) system will prob. be faster slightly than a dual core - though more expensive

[sdsumike619]

Check out all my recent posts regarding a new system for encoding. For less than $500 I put together a great budget core 2 duo system that is eons ahead of my last system!

[INFRATOM]

check out Tom's hardware, for best and fastest be prepared to spend around $2000 calc OS too

[dfgh11]

I have 2x xeon 2.8 prestonia, and I compared the encoding time in cce to a friends core duo 1.6ghz laptop and mine only beat it out by a faction (perhaps like 2 or 3 hours on a 6 pass). But how it would fair against the new xeon chips I'm unsure. However I think I would probably try a dual core or even a quad core chip when they surface. Especially as the price would possibly be much less. To upgrade my motherboard now for example, for a decent one that supports PCI-E would cost me over $400.

And a faster HDD will produce slightly faster speeds. I usually read from one drive and write to another, and it produces slightly faster results