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Originally Posted by BitAudioVideo
i think the quad is said to be about 30% faster on vegas. i dont know what he's rendering, but i edit a 30 min vid in premiere, go have a smoke and make a cup of coffee, read a few posts on gfy and the vid is done exporting.. maybe if he waits a couple months to get a quad he will save a few minutes encoding out his video.. personally, from a budget standpoint i wait till the processor is out a while before i throw down the money... then again i have 12 pc's inhouse and adding 12 more over the next month. a dual core 3.4 is $155 bucks.
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A core 2 Quadro running at around the same speed of an E6600 (2.4GHz) will render a single HDTV image in around 52 seconds, compared the E6600 itself rendering the same image in about 1:38. The Quad cored chips have a performance increase of 70% or more when the same clocked chips are compared to each other, they seem to be a monster when it comes to HD material.
From THW:
3d rendering (3D Studio Max 8): 100% performance increase
Video editing (Adobe Premiere Pro 2.0): 80% performance increase
HD video encoding (H.264): 70% performance increase
Video encoding (WME 9): 63% performance increase
Video encoding (DivX 6.2): 27% performance increase
Image editing (Adobe Cs2): 24% performance increase
File comp. (Winrar): 10% performance increase
All I can say is? WOW. Quad cored personal computing is out within a few months and it is going to push the limits even further. Fucking awesome is all I have to say. I do take your budget concerns to heart though as I'm all about saving the bucks as well. The E6600 was very well priced when it was released though, I'm hoping they have a similar version for the quad launch.
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Originally Posted by BitAudioVideo
i pay $61 for a superflower sf-201 - 6 case fans - you can get a nice enermax for $38. its just an opinion ofcourse but i think an aluminum case is made better. smooth edges. better fit. less shit breaks. maybe ive bought shit steel cases in the past.
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Steel is stronger than aluminum, so I?d have to disagree with that aluminum cases are less prone to breakage. Though honestly for me it comes down to price. The SF-201 is looks to be a pretty good sweet deal for the money, especially considering it comes with six fans (albeit 80mm so the noise factor is slightly higher than I like). For me it?s *always* price first and foremost, and at that price it?s more than welcome.