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"Richard Crowley" <rcrowley@xpr7t.net> wrote in message
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> metaphorng wrote ...
>>I currently have a Geforce MX440 (64MB), a 2.4GHz Pentium processor and
>>512MB of DDR ram.
>>
>> If I want to increase the speed of my encoding programs (TMPGEnc etc),
>> should I upgrade my video card, CPU or memory?
>
> Despite what the video card vendors hype, your video card plays NO part in
> this function. You could use the cheapest and slowest video card avilable
> and it would not change the encoding speed a bit.
>
> The CPU likely plays the largest part, but beware of having
> a bottleneck elsewhere (like hard drives/controllers). More
> memory *might* increase the speed, but not as much as a
> faster CPU.
Right, and it is a good idea to have two drives and take
care to input off one drive then output to the other. If the
process builds a temporary file, remember to take it into
account. (First it's an output then it's an input, so you
could have a process that inputs data off drive D: and
builds a temporary file on drive C:, then inputs from the
temporary file and outputs to drive D
.
Also, don't forget to "Defrag" your drives regularly, it
can have a much bigger impact on some processes,
than on others. You should give it a little higher priority
than the routine user.
Luck;
Ken
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