do i need a dual

[jkl]

hi, im trying to decide if a dual processor is the way to go. right now i want to get a "Tiger MP S2460" with a 760 mp chipset (mp chipsets can take dual athlon tbirds, mpx chipsets can only take athlon mp processors)since i have a tbird in my current rig(check my profile) i will only need to get tne motherboard and another tbird and keep my other hardware. my question is "will this cut my encoding time in half or close to it?" two or three hours are not aceptable and i would rather spend my money on a good dvd burner. any advice will be appreciated especially from people who have personally encoded on both a single and dual processor system. i exclusively use dvd2svcd(always latest build) with cce 2.5 with 3 pass vbr and standard svcd bitrate settings.


average encode time: 3.5-4.5 movie length for .avi
4.0-5.5 for dvd rip
thanks!!

[Executioner]

Well, I have a PIII-550MHz dually setup, running Win2k and 328 megs of ram on a 7200 rpm drive, where nothing but movie files are stored. The pc boots off a SCSI HD, and I use a spare IDE 20 gig HD for movie creation. A typical 2 hour movie takes me about 9 to 10 hours jsut for the encoding using TMPGEnc.

Just guessing, I would say that having the extra CPU probably saves me 30-40% of the processing time for encoding. I think you would be better off getting a DvD burner IMHO.

[eazeaz]

I dont think going with another tbird is going to do what you want. Now two of the MP 1800's would.

If you plan on getting that motherboard make sure you have a power supply that will handle it. Manual on tyan and asus dual amd motherboards call for a 400watt minimum with 30amps on the +5 side and 15 amps on the +12.