I just got a Pentium 4 1.7 Ghz, 512MB RAM, 80GB Hard Drive and man its amazing. With my old AMD K6-2 500Mhz, 256MB RAM it took me about 2 hours to encode a 30 min movie. But I encoded the same movie with on my new computer just to see how fast it would go. It took 15 mins flat. The source position was twice the elapsed time. I highly recommend this processor to any hardcore encoders!