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30. December 2006 @ 08:55 _ Link to this message    Send private message to this user   
If you were building a new PC and wanted to get the fastest encoding times possible what hardware would you buy?

Which hardware impact encoding time the most?
CPU, Hardrive, or DVD RW drive. Whats more important about the DVD-RW drive, burning speed (18x) or access times (100ms)?
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30. December 2006 @ 10:11 _ Link to this message    Send private message to this user   
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there are people who are able to describe this stuff better than me, my simple description will hopefully suffice for now;
i'd rate importance in this order -

1/ CPU is the most important aspect as CPU does all the grunt work
2/ you will need sufficient RAM
3/ i personally don't put too much effort into hard drive performance as these days you can get incredible performance for very little money. i don't use SATA yet so for instance a very fast drive (i have this one) is a 'Western Digital WD3200JB Caviar SE 320GB 7200RPM ATA 8MB Cache, just an 'OEM' model, very cheap & fast and a huge amount of storage.
4/ DVD burner - at the moment i use a couple of Benq DW1650's, one's internal to the PC, the other lives in a USB2.0 enclosure.

As i say, others can describe all this better than me but that's a start...(i don't ever go for the latest & greatest CPU/motherboards as they're always outdated by the time you've built the damn thing anyway, waste of hard earned money in my opinion).

My DVD Burning PC my most powerful PC) is a modest Athlon 2800XP with 1GB of Ram, most movies are ripped in 15mins or so (i only care for movie only) and burnt to dvd at 8x in only a few mins.
If i'm out and about i use my laptop at a push which is an AMD Turion64 ML30 or whatever it's called, it does movies in about 30 to 40mins and burns are done at 8x.



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