Re: what do I upgrade? (512MB to 1024MB ram makes no diffs)

On Thu, 13 Nov 2003 19:21:58 GMT, Justin Olanin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Gave us:

>I have sorta the same set up as you and what you should upgrade is the 
>processer. Upgrading to a Hyperthreading P4 (even at 2.4 like you are 
>now) would make a differance. Id say go for a 2.4, or higher, and see 
>what you can overclock.
>
>Johan Wagener wrote:
>> I am making a lot of dvd movies from my camcorder. The encoding process
>> (from DV avi to Mpeg) takes a very long time. I would like to know what in
>> my PC I must upgrade so that this takes less time.
>> 
>> I have a Pentuim 4 - 2GHz (running at 2.4GHz) with 1024MB DDR 333. My
>> motherboard however only runs the memory at 266MHz. The increase from 512 to
>> 1024MB ram did not seem to make any difference in the encoding speed.
>> 
>> I also have a 7200RPM Maxtor 160GB HD and I don't have any video editing
>> card.
>> 
>> 

  Not nearly as fast as getting a dual CPU MOBO setup.  You said
fast....  I give you fast.

  Aside from that, you wont see much change.  The task you are
performing is nitty gritty number crunching, and even the CPU upgrade
wont help much.

  I used to run about 8 seti units a day on one of my machines.  No
small task, I might add.

  On my dual CPU box, I get nearly twenty a day done.  A hot single
cpu machine like yours or the newer stuff these days will do about
ten.  So my old dual CPU machine has bested most seti contributors'
asses on crunch time.  I still play online games and do any other
machine tasks I wish as well, including burning CDs while they run,
one on each CPU (I run two instances now) with no glitches.  You case
differs.  You cannot run it twice, once on each CPU and get double
performance like I do.  You are running a single task.  It will run
faster, but not quite double, as in my case.  You must be on
Windows2000 Pro or higher as well in order to have access to the task
management interface.  You can turn up their priority that way as
well.

  If you are on W2k or higher, press Ctrl-Alt-Delete to bring up the
task manager while your app is up (tho not crunching).  Right click on
your task, and select "Set Priority".  This will allow you to turn up
the priority of the task you want to have a few more time slices on.
That will help a bit.  

  Good luck.  If you are pirating...  I hope your computer crashes and
burns, and you as well... in your car, resulting in only extreme
injuries to yourself, and no others.