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Posted by Dave Martindale on 11/06/07 21:28
"PTravel" <ptravel@travelersvideo.com> writes:
>> If you are truly committed to running Premiere on a fast processor, for my
>> money I would definitely await until November 12th for the release of the
>> new Intel Penryn CPU, whose SSE4 instruction set speeds up video encoding
>> by at least a 2X or greater factor when the programs have been written to
>> use the new instructions.
>These look nice, but I usually buy technology that is 1 step behind the
>latest and greatest. This year, particularly, I have to do things on a
>budget, so I think a Core 2 Duo machine with a couple of gig of RAM should
>work just fine, particularly under XP (my laptop is running Vista
>Business -- don't ask. ;) ).
Go ahead and buy a new machine now, just make sure the motherboard will
support Penryn when it comes out (e.g. P35 chipset). When Penryn
processors are available *and* your favourite video encoder has been
upgraded to make use of the new instructions (which may be months
later), then buy a new CPU. Prices may have already dropped by that
point.
I just bought a new computer with an E6850. I could have had a Q6600
quad-core for the same price, and that might have made sense if my main
use was for video encoding using all 4 cores. But the 6850 is faster
(higher clock rate) for the single-threaded programs that still abound.
Faster quad-core CPUs are available but at several times the price, and
they dissipate a lot more power too. I figure I'll skip the first
generation of quad-core CPUs and wait for Penryn prices to drop before
upgrading. It should be a simple CPU swap.
Dave
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