Intel quad core benchmarks

[jagabo]

Tomshardware.com has some substantial benchmarks of the quad core Kentsfield chip:

http://www.tomshardware.com/2006/09/10/four_cores_on_the_rampage/

Good news for Mainconcept h.264 and WMV9 users!

[pijetro]

Sounds like i've found my next Christmas present...
As far as the h.264 codec goes, in the near future, i thought that video cards with specialized processors were going to the number crunching instead of the CPU?

Or would that strictly be at the decoding end of things??

[greymalkin]

I'll just let my crusty old 3ghz machine encode while I'm sleeping :P.