Video Related Question...
 

Approx. 3 months ago, I bought this PC

Then couple of weeks ago, I bought the same exact PC.

Most of the work I do is video related and was running a test on both PC's to see if both PC's were similiar in speed when encoding.

The PC that I bought 3 months ago, encoded a clip which was 16 minutes long in 24 minutes using CLeaner XL at 300k.wmv

The other PC using the same exact clip took 41 minutes using Cleaner XL at 300k.wmv

Any idea since both PC's are exactly the same that they would differ this greatly when it comes to encoding?

BTW, Cleaner XL was the only program running at the time.

Feedback appreciated...

Are you sure Cleaner was the only thing running? Did you check for spyware or strange processes running?

And is the BIOS setup properly with the right cache settings and what not?

Drive optimization, swap space, RAM, all factor in. Because it's the same PC doesn't mean the hardware is necessarily identical.

-doug

a real video editor is smart enough to invest in one of these.

http://www-1.ibm.com/servers/eserver.../workstations/

Run this on both machines.

AIDA32 - Enterprise
http://www.aida32.hu/aida32-download.php

It'll identify every chip, every device, and every card. Sounds like they may have fucked you on something.
Maybe a cheap-ass gfx card or a slower processor or something.

Unless you don't know how to clean a machine of spyware, BHOs, and virii.

Thanks Wilber for the link. Only difference so far is the video card is different.. The slower PC has an Intel 64mb compared to the Nvidia 128mb card in the other. That wouldn't make a difference when encoding though..