Need advice on choosing CPU

Hi,

I have a ASUS P5E-VM HDMI LGA 775 Intel G35 HDMI mother board.

I will be doing limited video editing, and DVD to DIVX conversions.

Which processor is better suited for the above task's.

1.) Intel Core 2 Quad Q6600 Kentsfield

2). Intel Core 2 Duo E8400

Thanks,


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needhelp wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I have a ASUS P5E-VM HDMI LGA 775 Intel G35 HDMI mother board.
>
> I will be doing limited video editing, and DVD to DIVX conversions.
>
> Which processor is better suited for the above task's.
>
> 1.) Intel Core 2 Quad Q6600 Kentsfield
>
> 2). Intel Core 2 Duo E8400
>
> Thanks,
>
>

DIVX 6.6.1
http://www.tomshardware.com/charts/c...%2C1267%2C1275

Premiere Pro 2 (encoding)
http://www.tomshardware.com/charts/c...%2C1275%2C1267

You would expect the total computing power of the Q6600 to be greater.
But the thing is, software has to be multithreaded, and each core has
to run at 100%, to see the full benefit of the quad. It could be, that
the DIVX results are due to the efficiency with which the program
is able to run on four cores. (I.e. Speedup isn't 4x with four cores,
but some lesser number. Sometimes the FSB is the choke point.)

You really need benchmarks of each exact scenario, to see what the
speedup would be.

For a lot of more ordinary (non multimedia) daily tasks, the E8400
will be faster. Not everything is multithreaded and symmetric in
loading. Lots of old programs are single threaded, and for that,
the highest clock rate helps. Multimedia programs give the
best hope of getting a speedup from a quad core.

Paul

"needhelp" <needhelp@somewhere.com> wrote:

> I have a ASUS P5E-VM HDMI LGA 775 Intel G35 HDMI mother board.
>
> I will be doing limited video editing, and DVD to DIVX conversions.
>
> Which processor is better suited for the above task's.
>
> 1.) Intel Core 2 Quad Q6600 Kentsfield
>
> 2). Intel Core 2 Duo E8400

The best place to get advice like that is in groups that use those
applications. The users know best.

Good luck.




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