I've Just Gone Dual-Core :^)

[anonymez]

i download the image file from asus, close all unneccesary processes/apps, disconnect any network connections, run asus update (i install/uninstall the app as needed from the cd), point it to the file, and its done within a minute

asus update also has an auto-update feature, but i'd rather do these things manually...

[Chewy]

from Windoze?
color me oldfashioned

[anonymez]

from windoze

[Chewy]

I do so many different ones, I use my standard above and beyond
any specs one, I developed over the last few years.

[anonymez]

you use dos?

[Chewy]

that's only one line of a full page of safeguards I take

line 25 tin foil hat

[anonymez]

old school chewy

[Chewy]

Well I have never paid more than $70 bucks for a mobo and that was
retail, my deluxe ones are usually a year old and refurb, never know
who or what has hosed them. A 200$ mobo after a year passes
and refurb is 50$. It gives time for bios maturity and there are so many noobs trying to build state of the art bleeding edge computers, the supply of refurb mobos is plentiful. Should have picked up 2 of the last 939 one,
it jumped up 20$ in price last month. I paid 35$ ea for my soyo dragon 2 delux socket a's.
I won't touch refurb deluxe vid cards anymore, too delicate, same with cpu's.

[Chewy]

anony

you do have 2 serial drives in that beast?

[mill]

Thanks

[anonymez]

you do have 2 serial drives in that beast?

yup

[Chewy]

yup

wrong answer!

Let the games (benchs) begin!


haven't done any xvid in a year and a half, hope it's progressed since then.
divx4?

[anonymez]

xvid has progressed hugely, there is very little to improve now IMO, they have pretty much reached the limits of what mpeg-4 ASP can do

i've used divx4 once, divx 5 many times (though not for several years), divx 6 just for testing.

[Chewy]

on a lengthy encode I guess its ok to use source and output same drive,
but never on a fastttttttttttttttttttttttttttttttt! bench.
cpu has to be the only bottleneck

4 gigs in 6 minutes

[anonymez]

gimme the conditions, i'll bench and we'll see how fast it goes

the only reason why i used the same drive was cause my 80GB was full