trying to speed up my computer for faster encoding

[slimpickins]

hi
im going to start using cce but i heard it takes a long time to encode, what can i do to speed up my computer, do i add ram, or cache speed, thanks, i once heard a guy in this forum say it takes a very short time cos he had certain modifications

thanks

[guns1inger]

CPU. Encoding is CPU intensive. More so than any other part of your system, CPU will give you the biggest boost. CCE is dual cpu enabled, so put in the fastest dual core intel you can afford.

[slimpickins]

thanks for quickk reply

i have a pentium(R) 4 cpu 3.40ghz and 512mb of ram

are cpu's expensive and are they easy to instal, i.e no soldering or anyhting

thanks

[jimmalenko]

im going to start using cce but i heard it takes a long time to encode, what can i do to speed up my computer, do i add ram, or cache speed, thanks, i once heard a guy in this forum say it takes a very short time cos he had certain modifications

So all you've got to go on is hearsay and not firm results ?

I don't use it, but all the evidence I've seen says that CCE is actually one of the quicker encoders. TMPGEnc is generally referred to as "the slow one". Of course it depends on if you do filtering and/or you're frameserving, just to mention a couple of possible factors.

But all things being equal, a CPU upgrade is the most beneficial "drop-in" speed increase. If we're talking about free solutions, then if you have two or four sticks of RAM, you may find that Dual Channel mode can increase performance significantly (increased my performance by around 20%). Make sure both source and destination drives have been defragged. Also it is most optimum if the source and destination drives are on different IDE channels. Of course there's also overclocking as well - but try at your peril.

If filtering is required, then I believe that it is more efficient to filter in AVISynth than using the encoder's inbuilt filters.

Just read your reply above and I don't believe that it would be worth it for you to upgrade your CPU - 3.4GHz is quite fast and there's no value IMHO in upgrading it yet. And no, there's no soldering when installing a CPU - the hardest part is making sure that the CPU is compatible (number of pins, bus speed) with your motherboard. After that it's just a matter of align, drop in, close the latch and bolt the heatsink and fan back on. Then there may or may not be changes required in your BIOS, or possibly the changing of a jumper on your mobo (some models control the bus speed using a jumper, others in the BIOS).

[slimpickins]

hi, what do u mean dual channel mode, and 2 or 4 sticks of ram,?

[Bjs]

Be aware , each new cpu release also come's in a couple of flavour's ... the most important factor when considering cpu's is cpu cache memory (built into cpu) ... the larger this number ... the faster it will rip into the job .

Then there are difference's when it come's to system main buss speed ... 100 , 133 , 166 , 200 again , the faster it is here in the sub system , the better .

Here we come across "crippled" pc's ... 200 main buss speed ... crappy celeron used (very small amount of on cpu cache memmory) ... go take dog for a walk ... it might be finished when you get back ... next week .

[slimpickins]

how do i find out my cache, what is the 3.4 ghz?

[ofbarea]

Get CPU-Z. This little program will tell you all the information you need about CPU, cache and memory.

[guns1inger]

Update your profile - it says you currently have an 1800 CPU (I assume you upgraded from an athlon)

[jimmalenko]

hi, what do u mean dual channel mode, and 2 or 4 sticks of ram,?

Dual Channel mode is where you have "pairs" of RAM working together.

I just googled "What is Dual Channel Mode" and found this:
http://www.intel.com/support/motherboards/desktop/sb/CS-011965.htm

Lots of great info about it there.