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Unread 19 Jun 2006, 19:38   #5
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Re: CPU's yo
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Originally Posted by JammyJim
Athlon64 3800+
Athlon64 4000+

OR

Athlon 64 dual core 3800+
You should make sure your video-compression program is able to use dual-core CPUs. Im not sure if simply launching two conversions at the same time is an alternative.

I would definately calc how much additional energy the second core is using up when it is not in use as i have my computers running 12 to 16 hours a day and most of the time the second core would be completely useless. I would hope that its possible to completely disable the second core to avoid the operating system automatically using the second core for nonsense tasks like a webbrowser, winamp or text editors and therefore keeping it running all the time.

Intel has announced severe price cuts for its CPUs recently and AMD will follow - you should definately watch the (coming) price changes as they can make up to 60%.
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