Athlon XP 2500 how fast to encode?

[elperra]

Hi I am thinking on building a computer, how fast is this chip Athlon 2500 XP to encode movies? I will get 512 Ram, Epox 8RDA3i, 120 WD hd.
I know that getting a p4 will get the best speed but it is more expensive, so this is the one that I can afford at the moment.
Thank you.

[elperra]

By the way I use dvdshrink and dvddecrypter.

[nimbles]

for dvdshrink i don't think the difference is that marked- with things like CCE and stuff like xvid (for converting to avi) i think its significantly noticeable

takes me about 50min-1hr with deep analaysis on an average sized dvd (~7gb) with dvd shrink and thats with a xp2200+ 2x256mb pc2700 ram, wd 120 gb hd (8mb cache) with a year and half old asus mobo (can't remember the model off hand), add another 15minutes for burning at 4x

however using dvd-rb (which uses cce for re-encoding) i only get processing speeds of 1.2-1.3x real time whereas people with similar speed p4's report speeds around 2x (damn athlon :rolleyes: )

[celtic_druid]

DVDShrink doesn't actually encode.
XviD I seem to recall is not that much faster on a P4. Possible reason being that if I recall correctly none of the developers have P4's.

@nimbles, whatever version of CCE? v2.5.x or newer? If newer, try v2.5.

[nimbles]

thanks for the tip celtic_druid will give it a shot :t_up:

[Lazza]

If you are buying the Athlon XP 2.5 Barton then say hello to very fast encode times. :D

Dead easy to overclock and the results are superb, just about to change my 2.6 for one myself.


http://www.ebuyer.com/customer/products/index.html?action=c2hvd19wcm9kdWN0X292ZXJ2aWV3&product_uid=46513

[celtic_druid]

Is that price right? Because I converted the price and it is cheaper here.

[Lazza]

The country I live in is called Rip Off Britain so yep sadly the price is right. :(

[guy0]

mine is somewhat close maybe.

amd 2400 xp
ak38n motherboard
pci 2100 512mb ddr
128mb vid out radeon 9600 series
120 gb hd

it takes me about 30 min for deep anal and another 25 -32 min to encode.

hope that puts some light into it for ya.

guy0

btw what is the price gap on the p4?

[celtic_druid]

Well here it is $198 for a 2.4GHz P4 Prescott and $125 for a Athlon XP 2.5 Barton.
Have to consider the price of the MB too though.

[Uranus]

it takes me about 30 min for deep anal.
Keep it clean dude!..We have young viewers here.:laugh:

@nimbles..As celtic said cce 2.5 is the way to go. you might wanna save some pennies for another 512mb of ram too. cce is a memory beast, if i look in task manager during encoding it shows it's using 330mb+ out of 1Gb.

[Jesterrace]

Hi I am thinking on building a computer, how fast is this chip Athlon 2500 XP to encode movies? I will get 512 Ram, Epox 8RDA3i, 120 WD hd.
I know that getting a p4 will get the best speed but it is more expensive, so this is the one that I can afford at the moment.
Thank you.
We need more info like what speed your ram is, ect. With DVD Shrink and Deep Analysis it takes me an average of about 30 minutes with a P4 2.4GHZ, 800MHZ FSB, 256MB PC3200 DDR RAM, 80GB Western Digital with 8MB Cache. So unless you are getting crappy ram it should be pretty comparable to what mine is.

[guy0]

Uranus -


lol!!!! sorry wasn't intended in that manner. lol!:D

[elperra]

We need more info like what speed your ram is, ect. With DVD Shrink and Deep Analysis it takes me an average of about 30 minutes with a P4 2.4GHZ, 800MHZ FSB, 256MB PC3200 DDR RAM, 80GB Western Digital with 8MB Cache. So unless you are getting crappy ram it should be pretty comparable to what mine is.
Ram DDR400 512MB DDR SDRAM (PC3200)
HD.80GB PATA-Western Digital 7200(8MB)-ATA100. 8.9ms. 8MB cache.

[baboyizm]

my 2500xp will do deep analysis in about 30 and burn at 4x in about 15 minutes.
as of now i am not overlcocking. i can get this chip to a 3200xp speed, but its been hot where i live and my cpu temp keeps rising. for about 90.00 it does a decent job.