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dizzyduck
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_ 		21. July 2008 @ 23:17 _ Link to this message    Send private message to this user   
I hope I posted this in the right place. I have been succesfully encoding videos for quite some time with no problems. Just recently my computer has slowed down significantly when encoding video.

For example: when converting a divx file (size varies, but roughly 600- 700mb) with ConvertXtoDVD, it takes about 1.5 hours when it used to take around 30-35 minutes. When encoding the same size divx file with CCE 2.7 it takes nearly 4 hours for 1 pass, when it typically took about 1.5 hours.

It burns normal at 8x (around 6-8 minutes.) Everything else is running flawlessly on my computer. Any ideas on what could have happened?

I'm running an AMD 3800+ with 2GB Dual Channel RAM on XP Pro. I have reformatted hard drive and replaced hard drive. Still no luck. Thanks for any help.
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jony218
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_ 		22. July 2008 @ 15:16 _ Link to this message    Send private message to this user   
first do you have enough space available on you hard drive? you need at least 10gb freespace available at least.

If you have the space, check and make sure your harddrives/dvdroms are setup for DMA and not PIO.

Lastly if you are using IDE drives make sure you don't have 2 drives connected to the same ide cable set to master or slave at the same time.
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dizzyduck
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_ 		23. July 2008 @ 11:59 _ Link to this message    Send private message to this user   
I have well over 700GB of available space so that's for sure not the problem. Checked all drives and are DMA and RW/ROM drives are set accordingly and hard drives are SATA III. Like I said, the only problem is encoding time. Everything else works like new. Any other ideas?
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jony218
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_ 		23. July 2008 @ 22:35 _ Link to this message    Send private message to this user   
One other thing that you can check is the BIOS, Something that occur to me with AMD cpu's is the clock speed of the cpu can get reset to a lower speed for no reason. During bootup the cpu speed will flash by real quick, on your computer it should read 3800. It happened to me once even though it's rare it is possible.
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ugc
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_ 		23. July 2008 @ 23:49 _ Link to this message    Send private message to this user   
another thing that might speed up things: Defrag your drive.
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dizzyduck
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_ 		28. July 2008 @ 11:10 _ Link to this message    Send private message to this user   
CPU speed is at 3800 and I defrag everyday on startup with O&O Defrag, but I never encode while defragging. It's actually gotten better since my post. I ordered 4GB of GSkill RAM (4x1GB) to replace the existing 1GB and it sped back up; not to where it once was but pretty close. Any other ideas?
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davexnet
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_ 		28. July 2008 @ 11:22 _ Link to this message    Send private message to this user   
Did you open the task manager during the encode and get some idea
of the cpu utilization and whether anything else was using the cpu
at the same time ?
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