CPUZ Thread

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I'm always interested in other computers. I remember a day when I had only a 1-core microprocessor and I thought it was fast. Now I look at that 2300 Mhz single core cpu and want to forget. I have 4 computers that are relatively matched in computing horsepower, two having a graphics card worth mentioning. All my computers have 2 cores and with the amount of time I spend encoding videos it would be worth having four cores on at least one of them. It's just not in the budget this year. Here's a shot of the computer I spend the most time working on.

[Areala]

Y'all would laugh if I put my PC in here. It's a Dell that is five years old with a PCI video card. I don't use my PC for gaming much any longer now that I have a PS3, but when I want to play something older, or run an emulator, it does a bang-up job all things considered. Morrowind with the high-rez texture pack, for instance, looks absolutely gorgeous.

*huggles*

Areala

[jayrox]

Mines an intel core-2 quad 8300, never play games on it but very fast at encoding video, video editing and photoshop

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  On 10/24/2009 at 1:23 PM, jayrox said:

Mines an intel core-2 quad 8300, never play games on it but very fast at encoding video, video editing and photoshop

I figured Photoshop was more dependent on your graphics card and total amount of ram as well as latency of ram.

[E-Day]

  On 10/24/2009 at 2:17 PM, Jake said:

I figured Photoshop was more dependent on your graphics card and total amount of ram as well as latency of ram.

Only the newest versions of Photoshop and Premiere actually use the GPU to do the heavy duty work like encoding.

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  On 10/24/2009 at 10:55 PM, E-Day said:

Only the newest versions of Photoshop and Premiere actually use the GPU to do the heavy duty work like encoding.

I was only referring to Photoshop. New versions and old versions never use more than half the two cores I have. Even when I'm turning filters on and off. It needs alot of RAM and the faster the better. Photoshop Creative Suite 4 has a new requirement for your graphic card and that is 512 MB's because it skips over your onboard ram in favour of graphics card ram.

That has nothing to do with encoding. Any audio/video editor like Nero Vision, Corel Video Studio and Adobe Premiere will benefit from extra threads like a 4-core microprocessor provides.

Compressing and decompressing large files like an 8 gigabyte operating system will also max out your processor. I need not mention 7-zip and WinRAR.