 | | From: | frasser at gmail.com | | Subject: | Best video rendering CPU/Motherboard price point? | | Date: | 19 Jan 2005 12:20:53 -0800 |
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 | I could buy a new CPU and motherboard or continue with my AMD 2200.
Render times are about realtime but I work with multi-hour files so a
little more speed would help.
I transfer via firewire for the best quality to AVI in Premiere and
then edit to avi divx then encode in 4 formats using Media Cleaner.
Question is should I spend more $$$ for more speed? If so what
platform? Is there a comparison chart somewhere??
thanks
Fraser in Toronto
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| | From: | marko | | Subject: | Re: Best video rendering CPU/Motherboard price point? | | Date: | 21 Jan 2005 09:31:38 -0800 |
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| I'd say the best CPU/mobo combination for the price right now is the
Abit NFS-7 2.0 coupled with the Athlon Mobile 2500. Since they run
cooler for the laptop environment, you're able to overclock them to
over 2.5Ghz on air cooling, which is about a 600Mhz overclock. I'd
estimate you'd cut your render times by 35% or so if you do this.
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| | From: | Laurence Payne | | Subject: | Re: Best video rendering CPU/Motherboard price point? | | Date: | Sat, 22 Jan 2005 02:13:59 +0000 |
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| On 21 Jan 2005 09:31:38 -0800, "marko" wrote:
>I'd say the best CPU/mobo combination for the price right now is the
>Abit NFS-7 2.0 coupled with the Athlon Mobile 2500. Since they run
>cooler for the laptop environment, you're able to overclock them to
>over 2.5Ghz on air cooling, which is about a 600Mhz overclock. I'd
>estimate you'd cut your render times by 35% or so if you do this.
Is 35% worth it? My rule has always been not to upgrade until speed
doubled.
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| | From: | marko | | Subject: | Re: Best video rendering CPU/Motherboard price point? | | Date: | 23 Jan 2005 20:26:37 -0800 |
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| Well, these newer Celerons aren't as bad as earlier incarnations...
they now have 256KB (instead of 128KB) of L2 cache memory. Cache
memory capacity has always been what differentiated them from the
Pentiums. Other than that, they're the same die as Pentiums and Intel
gets to sell to lower budget consumers.
Regarding the Athlons, I didn't mean to make it sound like overclocking
is so difficult. With the motherboard I recommended, its quite easy
and such a performance advantage.
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| | From: | marko | | Subject: | Re: Best video rendering CPU/Motherboard price point? | | Date: | 21 Jan 2005 14:26:30 -0800 |
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| Correction: the model number of that mobo is NF-7S version 2.0.
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| | From: | marko | | Subject: | Re: Best video rendering CPU/Motherboard price point? | | Date: | 22 Jan 2005 18:36:45 -0800 |
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| Celeron D 2.8Ghz is $89 at Newegg.com which matches exactly the price
of the Athlon Mobile 2500. An Athlon motherboard is likely to be less
than a Celeron mobo, however and the Athlon chip will be much more
overclockable... If you're not going to overclock, however, you might
as well go with the Celeron.
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| | From: | Donald Link | | Subject: | Re: Best video rendering CPU/Motherboard price point? | | Date: | Sun, 23 Jan 2005 04:27:18 GMT |
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| On 22 Jan 2005 18:36:45 -0800, "marko" wrote:
>Celeron D 2.8Ghz is $89 at Newegg.com which matches exactly the price
>of the Athlon Mobile 2500. An Athlon motherboard is likely to be less
>than a Celeron mobo, however and the Athlon chip will be much more
>overclockable... If you're not going to overclock, however, you might
>as well go with the Celeron.
Why would anyone buy a Celeron brain dead chip unless it was
significantly reduced.
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| | From: | Pete | | Subject: | Re: Best video rendering CPU/Motherboard price point? | | Date: | Sat, 22 Jan 2005 13:13:59 +1030 |
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> Question is should I spend more $$$ for more speed? If so what
> platform? Is there a comparison chart somewhere??
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Hi fraser, I'm looking at upgrading. as my computer is a 1.7gig celeron,
and render times are slow.
Ive decided to go for a 2.8 gig Celeron D as this gives me the most bang
for buck. - according to the comparison charts on www.tomshardware.com it
should be three times faster than my existing setup.
Tomshardware does some render-time comparisons and its interesting to see
that although the AMD chips are superior to the Intel chips in games etc.
when it comes to video rendering, the Intel chips do better.
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