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claudestewart68 · 02-03-2004, 01:57 PM

Hello I'm thinking of building a new pc for rendering video. I was thinking that a serial ata 10,000 rpm drive would speed up the process but I'm not sure that it will. Does anybody have any input?

phenious · 02-03-2004, 03:19 PM

10,000 RPM would be nice but Im not sure if its the best choice. I find that I need more space then speed often. I render a few things in lightwave and do a lot of rendering to MPEG2 with TMPGenc and Ulead Editor. I find its really processor and RAM limited rather then HDD speed but thats for me. I use two Western Digitals with 8MB Caches with 120GB of storage in RAID 0. This gives me about 220GB of storage to work with large video files and store them I also have a seperate 120 where i Store sensative data just incase one of my drives in RAID decides to die. Hasnt happened since I started using WD HDDs. *knocks on wood*

-: phenious :-

claudestewart68 · 02-04-2004, 05:47 AM

I already have a 2.4 gig pentium and about 480 gigs. of harddrive space. But rending video [Mpeg2] takes quite a while. I just thought that I might try a faster harddrive to render and then transfer the files for storage. I'm also thinking of upgrading my cpu to around 3 ghz. I was wondering which avenue would be more effective. Speeding up the processor or speeding up the harddrive. I also have a gig of pc2700 ram. Claude

muno · 02-04-2004, 05:53 AM

This is just what I feel would be true, in no case take this as a fact.

The cpu will long before be exhausted before you reach even near the limits of your hds transfer rate.
That means, that even with 1000GHz processor you wouldn't be able to encode so fast that the hard drive would be the bottleneck.

phenious · 02-04-2004, 07:18 AM

I aggree with muno. Since you already have the storage, go with a faster CPU

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claudestewart68 · 02-04-2004, 05:51 PM

Thanks I kind of thought that the way to go would be a faster processor. Claude

Prison Kids · 02-04-2004, 05:59 PM

Not to crap on the thread, but will over-clocking an xp2500+ give much more speed to the rendering aspect, or is it not worth the extra strain on my cpu?

I have the same issue with rendering. It seems to take forever..
(yes, 40 minutes is forever)

implexant · 02-04-2004, 06:03 PM

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Originally posted by Prison Kids
Not to crap on the thread, but will over-clocking an xp2500+ give much more speed to the rendering aspect, or is it not worth the extra strain on my cpu?

I have the same issue with rendering. It seems to take forever..
(yes, 40 minutes is forever)

40 min for how long of a video?

-Chris