I think its more the fact that AMD hasn't really come out with anything lately and the 1700+ is still the CPU to play with.There is nothing wrong with that.Its just been a little boring on the AMD front lately.Intel has been getting these new mobo's and CPU's that overclock real well and all them overclock very good 2.4C,2.6C,2.8C and the 3.0C.Plus these chips with hyperthreading run certain programs and encoding extremely fast compared to the B chips.Someone ran some tests in encoding and the times were drastic.eva2000 did this test.Hope he don't mind me posting this.The 800 chip was running faster but the times are remarkable.
Been playing with my 2.8C cpu @3262mhz with pc3700 gold ram at default 233mhz 2-3-3-7 at 2.75v and HT and speed really helps speed things up
Test #1
I took four 1.5hr mpeg2 video captured shows (640x480 @9500kbps), equalling nearly 20GB of mpeg2 files and copied them over to 2 pcs. Then I used dvdx 2.2 to convert the mpeg2 video to SVCD
PC1
P4 2.4B@2405mhz
P4G8X
4x 512MB XMS3200C2@133mhz 2.5-3-3-7
128MB Gigabyte Radeon II 9000PRO@default
4x 80GB WD 800JB (2 drives in Raid 0 on Rocketraid404 crontroller for OS)
1x 120GB WD 1200JB
Leadtek Winfast 2000XP Deluxe
550W Antec PSU
PC2
P4 2.8C@3262mhz
Albatron PX865PE PRO2
2x 256MB OCZ PC3700Gold@233mhz 2-3-3-7
128MB Xmicro GF4 Ti4200 VIVO@default
2x 120GB WD 1200JB raid 0 on onboard Promise raid controller
1x 80GB WD 800JB
520W Topower PSU
Time taken for each 1.5hr mpeg2 file to convert to SVCD
PC1 = 2hrs 25mins * 4 = 9hrs 40mins
PC2 = 1hr 18mins * 4 = 5hrs 12mins
Test #2
I captured the whole MTV2003 awards in mpeg2 video using Leadtek Winfast 2000XP Deluxe with
720x576
Mpeg2-codec
Mpeg1 audio
Video quality 1000
Video quality data rate 8500kbps
the resulting file was 10.9GB in size (7.6GB was mtv2003 and over recorded the rest) and made a copy of it to the other pc and fed both mpg files through dvd2avi and TMPGenc 2.513 (which is HT supported) to convert to a DVD-R file with motion search set to highest quality, noise and ghost filtering enabled
Time to completion of conversion:
PC1 = ~57+hrs
PC2 = ~27.5hrs
what a time saver!
Originally posted by: Chumpman
shimm ... how could you!! You were the driving force behind my aspirations to hit 2.5 GHz with an AMD chip.
Oh well, enjoy your new p4. :beer: