I7 3632qm HT?

whats the model of ur laptop?

i7 is good in rendering the video.for cuda you need to get nvidia gpu.

yes i5 and i7s are good for rendering video and audio. nvidia is a must for cuda as amd doesnt support cuda.

I have a Hp Envy M4... So does this CPU have OpenCL? and how fast should i really be recording?

opengl is not cpu, but gpu generated.

that cpu has quicksync.

http://www.intel.com/content/www/us/en/architecture-and...

alot faster than other solutions.

u have 4cores+4htcores but u also have a slow gpu.

http://www.notebookcheck.net/Intel-HD-Graphics-4000-Ben...

id use quicksync would be alot faster.

how do i enable quicksync?

http://software.intel.com/en-us/articles/intel-and-bada...

that should help.

Does your software use quicksync? I'm going to assume you use Vegas, so it should be under AVC rendering.

Thanks i downloaded the SDK and yes i do use Vegas and i am now looking for AVC rendering!

excellent, hope this helped  

It's difficult to say what encoding performance you should be getting since that depends on a lot of factors. More than just resolution (720P) and your CPU (i7-I7 3632qm). Other factors are:

1. What encoder are you using? Some are slower than others.
2. What video codec are you using?
3. Do the encoder and codec support support more than one core? Does they support Hyper Threading?
4. What settings are you using? Settings for higher video quality lowers performance.
5. Are you using 1-pass or 2-pass method?

I'm not sure if I can give you an accurate answer because I use an the older Q9450 to do my encoding. Typically I use VirtualDub to encode with XviD and Handbrake to encode with x.264. I tend to use high video quality settings using the 2-pass method. The amount of time it takes to complete a single video is roughly 2.75x the length of the movie so a 2 hour movie takes about 5.5 hours to encode.

I'm sure I can improve my encoding performance once I upgrade my Q9450, but I don't encode very often so I want wait for either Haswell or Broadwell.

i guess jag ur contented of ur q9450, but im assuming ur overclocking it also.

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I can't find AVC Rendering where can it be found?

I looked on YT help pages for my render setting using Sony Vegas Pro...

Select the Sony AVC render template. Under Customize Template, there are options for GPU acceleration, including Automatic, CPU only, quick-sync quality and quick-sync quick. In my setup, this works only if you use the HD4000 graphics adapter. If you use an external card, the options are still there, but will give an error if you select one of the quick-sync options.

Yea i made a custom template and i enabled OpenCL because Sony vegas told me i had it i am now rendering vids 1/2 their normal time thanks for your help everybody!    

Just a mild OC of 3.0GHz. I'm sure I can easily push it to 3.4GHz by tweaking the voltages, but I don't really encode videos as much as I used to. And I don't play games as much since I have other things I need to focus on.

You're going to pick up a shiny new Haswell setup right?

I use a custom template and it only has Cuda and OpenCL as options

righto jag, i guess im a speedemon  

Not sure. Either Haswell or Broadwell.

I'll be buying Skylake in 2015 so Haswell/Broadwell will then go into my HTPC which currently has an C2D E6600. Not sure if I will install the Q9450 in the HTPC 'cause it's only purpose is to play movies.

it be smart to move ur lga775 to the htpc, than make a nice power rig with haswell.