Help me create the beasiest computer for ENCODING

[mrspangle]

Hi,


A little challenge for you all:

I want to create a computer system that will encode data the fastest, im not worried about cost - but be sensible. Dual processors - any advantage?

So, list the computer specs you would expect that could encode video and sound data the fastest.

JOhn

[Hex]

Are you really going to build a computer or are you just bored? What's your budget?

Here is my dream system:
Lian-Li PC-76
Supermicro X5DAE
2 Intel Xeon 2.8GHz
2048MB nonparity PC2100 DDR
AIW ATI Radeon 9700 Pro
Soundblaster Platinum
3Com 3C996B-T 10/100/1000 PCI
Adaptec 39160 SCSI Card
Seagate Cheetah 73GB ST373453LW
Two Seagate Cheetah 146GB ST3146807LW
8Bank of 200GB WD drives w/HighPoint RAID controller
Plextor 40x SCSI CD-RW
Pioneer DVD-305S 10X SCSI
Plextor PX-504A 4X
PC Power and Cooling Turbo-Cool 475 XE/ATX12V
WinXP Pro
Exabyte VXA-2 Internal SCSI

I'll go w/SATA as soon as it's available with mobo.

[Faustus]

32 way Xeon, nuff said. A little chapers you can go 4 way Xeon that board is only about $1500. On the side of realisim you could build a nice dual Athlon setup.

Does dual help? Depends on what your encoding with... if it supports dual processors (like tmpgenc or CCE) then yes.