I've Just Gone Dual-Core :^)

[Chewy]

all I wanted was a screenshot in my stocking, no coal tho

[anonymez]

well guys, i am pleasantly surpised

i did a backup of 'war of the worlds', re-author, using deep analysis & AEC (default sharp), using the settings below:




during the analysis stage, both cores were at full load, and i was happy




during encoding, both cores were at full load again, most of the time. there were brief slumps in utilisation, but keep in mind that 50% usage is the equivalent of having only one core at full load!




the entire process took 16 minutes, 22 seconds

deep analysis - rate: hovered around 13,900KB/s, and 370-375fps

encoding: started off at 14,000KB/s, very gradually decreased to around 10,000 KB/s, and was at 11,000 KB/s towards the end

very pleasing results i think

[blutach]

Lend me your PC - I need it for DVDRB encoding

Regards

[anonymez]

but i need it too! (though probably less than you, at the rate you are buying dvd's! )

too bad i don't have an estimate of what a single core athlon64 3200+ does, so i can compare the two

[blutach]

Ha! I am working on a 4yo PC - Athlon 1700. It doesn't even have a USB2 port!!! But my encodes go overnight just fine - I really couldn't give a stuff about the time.

Regards

[Chewy]

HMMMMMMMMMMM, that explains a lot, the faster times for X2/64's,
now we may know what shrink really changed with 3.2. Would anyone happen to know if shrink was using a dual cpu during the last months
of developement? 2 cpus, not dual core.

Ok anony, what was the source, dvd'd files on hard drive or disk in
optical drive?

[anonymez]

encoded from the hard disk, to that same hard disk

@blu: that sound like the talk of somebody who doesn't have a dual-core PC! (just joking mate, i used to get by on a pIII 800MHz, doing all encoding not too long ago )

[Chewy]

and you didn't flash the bios first?

1. clear cmos/install new cpu
2. flash bios
3. spend days tweaking bios
and for some reason or another it's fun if it works

[anonymez]

i don't think if i were to try shrinking again i would get very different results. the main reason why i updated the bios was in the hope it would stop explorer.exe from completely occupying my second core! it was fixed after an update & reboot

i had a lot to learn about using the dual-core for games though. certain games run too fast/glitchy, i found that you need to set 'affinity' for that process as to restrict it to one core. (you can pick any process and tell it which core/s to use)

i also learned that 'system idle process.exe' taking up 90+ of both cores is a GOOD thing.

[Chewy]

need new 64bit multithreaded games

task manager is nice, but go into performance in adminstrative tools
and it's like layers of an onion.


you did reload or run xp as a repair disk?

[mill]

i was just checking in on you anonymez to see how your duel core was working , but i was still on the first page, i didnt see page 2, da. Sounds like your pleased with it.

[anonymez]

chewy, i did a format & clean install. i wouldn't have it any other way

@mill: very pleased with it, probably even more so in the future, when more apps are multi-threaded and we can get massive performance gains

[Chewy]

"chewy, i did a format & clean install. i wouldn't have it any other way"

yep, safer too, windows xp is getting a little long in the tooth and even repair
disk is not fixing stuff it ought to, I changed a cpu and some other hardware
and xp never worked right, until I repaired, but I am still considering deleting the system partition and clean install.

[anonymez]

i do a clean install every 3 months or so, just maintaining performance...

[Chewy]

i do a clean install every 3 months or so, just maintaining performance...

Now that's what I want like to hear in this subforum, but you must live a little dangerously to do it that often.