Fastest PC?

[TheLostTimberwolf]

thats a long time for a rip what speed is your dvd rom?

[rhegedus]

I have only had my XP1900 about 6 months, and I am already considering a new athlon thoroughbred chip.

Performance is like a drug, isn't it?

Rob

[TheLostTimberwolf]

Craig if you get one let me know what kind of speeds you get, mines the thoroughbred chip also. XP 2200 (1.8 ghz)

Have AMD cracked the 2.4 barrier yet?

@ Rob
I think you hit the nail on the head lol

[mrtristan]

Oops. I meant ripping and encoding. The rip itself doesn't take very long. I haven't done one in a while, but it never takes more than 15 minutes.

Actually, I don't mind leaving my machine on all night, but once I start encoding, I can't touch the computer. I might want to check something out late at night and have to wait until the next day.

thats a long time for a rip what speed is your dvd rom?

[darkelf]

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I have it set to high quality(slow).

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TLTw: Have you done sample tests with different quality settings? I've tried using the high quality setting and it made the encode times ALOT longer than even the next lower setting. It's the law of diminishing returns here methinks. Just like using an archive program (rar/zip), the 'normal' setting will take a certain amount of time, while the 'maximum' setting will take sometimes over 2x to compress the same files. And the resultant file is only slightly smaller (if any) when compared to the normal setting.

I'd suggest getting a raw DVD rip, cut it down to 15-30mins or so, and cycle thru all of the quality settings with each encode and guage the time. If you have already done this and I didn't see it in the posts, please forgive me. At least then you should know the variation that the quality setting introduces into the equation.

-elf

[TheLostTimberwolf]

Darkelf,

sounds like a good idea, thanks for the tip, I have holidays coming up soon, 3 beautiful weeks away from work so Ill be able to spend some serious time looking at things properly then.

Since I posted this question Ive learnt a fair bit, but theres still so much I have no idea about lol. ok see ya

ciao...

[Traveler1978]

Try this on for size

Athlon 2000+
512 DDR 2100

The pilot episode of "the Soprano's" is exactly 1 hour long and I'm converting it right now from DIVX (323.634 Kb's) to SVCD 2520 bits 480*480 and AC3 in less than 19 minutes (17 elapsed, 2 remaining).

Well I'm converting at the Highest quality in TMPGenc. with no help what so ever except my swap (temp) file of 1 gig.

If anybody can beat this speed tell me about it, I'm always curious about the fastest PC.

[TheLostTimberwolf]

Im about to reformat My pc after posting this, but if what you say is true thats FU*(ING fast. Also I have to ask, how do you set up a swap/temp file ?

ok catch ya in a few hours when Im back online...

[Traveler1978]

1 Open TMPGenc
1a (press no if you get the wizard)
2 press option
3 environmental setting
4 tab general
5 temporary file -- > browse
6 use the drive with the most free space and select it (remember the ammount of free space)
7 tab CPU
8 but a V in front of cache setting
9 put down the ammount of MB's you had free on the selected drive

happy encoding



BTW I am using the official (bought) version of TMPGenc so I'm not sure this also applies to the shareware version

[TheLostTimberwolf]

Thanks for the info, something new to try

Sometimes installing an OS can be such a head F&^(

catch ya

[Traveler1978]

If you install OS's a lot try using Norton GHOST

http://www.symantec.com/sabu/ghost/ghost_personal/


It's always nice to have a backup.
I backup my OS every month on a CD Rw I have 3 CD Rw's for it so I can always go back 3 months in case of an emergency like a malicious virus or something like it...

PS I doesn't work so well if you change PC's I did recently and than it might be smarter to just reinstall, 'cause Windoze tends to hang if you changed to much of your hardware (Everything in my case )