dual CPU question

[MrCyberPunk]

are there any encoding software out there that will take advantage of dual CPUs?

[darkangel]

with tmpgenc & cce u will see a 20-40% increase in speed but for the cost of the dual mobo & 2cpu's it ain't worth it get a fast athlon & amd r really the only option unless u want tu buy a xeon based system $$$$$$$$$$$

[MrCyberPunk]

it don't cost that much... I'm not just using it for encoding but a high end server... i'm getting a dual asus mobo and two AMD MP chips and about 1 too 2 gigs of ddr

[darkangel]

same system as me m8 but he might as well get the fastest single cpu if it's just for encodeing the cost doesn't justfiy for this use

[crahak]

True. Complete waste of money. People who need a high end server don't usually need it part time. If it needs this much processing power, well, you can't afford loosing enough for encoding anyways, neither the server being down for this long. Anyways, if you were serious about a server this size, you wouldn't use it for encoding anyways. A 2GHz machine is usually plenty for that... And ram don't really help encoding times either.

[BJ_M]

Main Concept 1.3.1 and the latest tmpgenc are both enabled for hyperthreading and of course SMP ... both are quite fast on my dual xeon ..

Main concept is the faster by far ..

CCE after 2.64 is truly SMP enabled also .. but not hyperthreaded. in fact its slower in hyperthread mode.