OT : More CPUs or Faster CPUs
Paul Lemmons
paul.lemmons at tmcaz.com
Tue Feb 5 17:44:54 UTC 2008
I am soon to purchase a new PC. It will run Fedora and its primary
purpose will be:
1) Transcoding my DVD library to xvid-avi's so that they may be watched
on my media player
2) Editing training videos that I create and burning the finished
product to DVD for distribution
To transcode I will most likely be using dvd::rip and for editing I will
probably be using cinerella
Now that that is said and money not a limitless resource I have some
choices to make. One of those choices is CPU configuration. For the
tasks above, which is better:
1) A single very fast CPU
2) Dual core CPU with combined speed greater than or equal to a single
CPU but each core slower than a single CPU
3) Multi socket CPU with combined speed greater than a single CPU but
each CPU slower than a single CPU
Bang for buck, option 2 sounds the best to me but I am concerned that
the process of transcodeing is single threaded and would not take
advantage of multiple CPUs.
Thoughts? Suggestions?
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