I'd like to ask a Favor from the Forum:
Overall Would you rather have a Dual Socket MB or a single socket MB,
Especially considering price? I'd like to know in the case of encoding MPEG-2 streams into MPEG-4 and also HD editing.
Before the advent of the QUAD Core CPU's this wasn't such a hard choice.\
I'd like your thoughts about whether for the money you'd rather have a MB with 2 Sockets and 2 dual core CPU's or even 2 Quad Core Cpu's
Versus
A Single socket MB with a high end Quad Core CPU.
Keep in mind I'm not a gamer. I want to quickly encode video and have flawless playback of HD video.
For Encoding video, Is there any part of the encoding process offloaded to the Video Cards or is all the encoding strictly done by the CPU/S?
Last but not least, Is running 2 video cards Via SLI or CrossFire worth the money?
Instead of buying one $500.00 card am I better off buying say 2 8600 GT's over a single 8800?
Overall Would you rather have a Dual Socket MB or a single socket MB,
Especially considering price? I'd like to know in the case of encoding MPEG-2 streams into MPEG-4 and also HD editing.
Before the advent of the QUAD Core CPU's this wasn't such a hard choice.\
I'd like your thoughts about whether for the money you'd rather have a MB with 2 Sockets and 2 dual core CPU's or even 2 Quad Core Cpu's
Versus
A Single socket MB with a high end Quad Core CPU.
Keep in mind I'm not a gamer. I want to quickly encode video and have flawless playback of HD video.
For Encoding video, Is there any part of the encoding process offloaded to the Video Cards or is all the encoding strictly done by the CPU/S?
Last but not least, Is running 2 video cards Via SLI or CrossFire worth the money?
Instead of buying one $500.00 card am I better off buying say 2 8600 GT's over a single 8800?