Hardware needed to convert MKV to AVI and dvd etc quicker?

[spunge85]

Hi, been searching the web for info but with inconclusive mixed results so i thought someboby my be able to give me a quick answer here. I just built up a pc using my old Asus A7N8X-E Deluxe socket A motherboard and i've matched it with 2gb of ddr ram, a athlon 2200xp and an old radeon X800 card and booted it with xp. The systems working fine and doesn't hang and seems to be alot quicker than the family pc i was using before, my problem is that when it comes to converting its at least a 3rd slower than the family pc even thought the specs are higher.
I've 4x the ram and the graphics card is superior the only thing that isn't as quick is the processor that clocks at 1.9 (family pc 512gb ram, cpu clocking at 2.4) even though i remember having this up to 2.8+ in the past with a little tweaking. My question is will a faster cpu help me convert quicker or is it down to another peice of hardware ie video card or software.

Im using xvid4psp for converting my mkvs and these are the times for converting a 324mb, 24min mkv on a simple 2pass. family pc-42mins, my new/old pc just under an hour.

Im trying to find out what key conponant will help me convert quicker and i hope somebody can help

[Baldrick]

Yep, a faster CPU will help a lot.


You can get faster H.264/AVC encoding with a new graphics cards with built hardware H264 encoding, but you are then limited to special software(see https://www.videohelp.com/tools?toolsearch=cuda&Submit=Search&convert=&s=9&orderby=Name&hits=50 for some tools) and the video quality may not that be the best. But as you are doing avi xvid? this wont help...