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Old 03-15-2010, 06:28 PM  
Mr. E
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Originally Posted by MaDalton View Post
having a lot of RAM is good for a large ePenis, but i would be surprised if the rendering program uses more than 1-1.5 gb. unless it's a shitty program.

if it's a good program the number of CPU cores definitely make a difference. I have 2 machines here, one with an older core2duo and one with a quadcore. both need more or less the same time for one video - but the quad core has 4 parallel slots compared to 2 on the other machine and is therefore twice as fast on bigger jobs.

so my next machine will have 2 quad cores which cuts down encoding time by another 50%

Yes and no. As I said in my post above, dedicated graphics is more important to video rendering times than how many cores you have. My core 2 duo with 512MB dedicated graphics renders videos faster than my roommates quadcore with shared graphics. Look for the highest amount of dedicated graphics and a good card before how many cores the computer has.
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