Hi all,
i've seen those interested in getting the best out of their systems using dual core (and opterons)....what about getting a decent setup and overclock it?
I'm talking about 3200+ venice sitting in a good DFI Lanparty nf4 ultra D?
Can the art of video editing take advantage of a 200-400 Mhz o'clocked system?
Froggy
overclock setup
Moderator: Ken Berry
Hi there, non-violent amphibious one!
My system is horribly constrained by an o.e.m motherboard, with all the good stuff disabled. I'm limited to playing with software overclocking, and did some tests using a program called CPUCool. This was able to overclock my P4 2.8c by about 25%, but the overclock was not maintained after a reboot.
In rendering tests, there was a more or less 1:1 relationship between rendering speed and CPU clock - so I saw a 25% improvement in rendering times. I only had bog-standard Samsung value RAM installed too, with only so-so timings, so that probably limited my overclock.
I had hoped to see a similar improvement in direct to MPEG-2 capture. I used to use that when I first started out with VS6, but have since learned the error of my ways. It's still a useful benchmark of your pc's ability to deal with VS, and I found that I was limited to a maximum of 89% on the quality slider even when I had disabled all possible Windows services, and disabled everything I could think of in BIOS too. Unfortunately, when I applied any overclocking with CPUCool, video capture didn't work.
In the real world, that shouldn't matter, since any sensible video editor (person) would work with AVI files. It may well be, and I think it very likely, that overclocking thru BIOS optimisations would not disable video capture.
Venice cores are supposed to be very good overclockers, and if you put them in an enthusiast board you will be able to get some decent results. The whole point of the exercise to my mind would be to get more for less, though. Dual core cpu's perform very well at video encoding, so the favourite setup is something like an Opteron 165, which you can OC on air to over 2.6Ghz.
Of course overclocking will invalidate your warranty (not too relevant if you're putting together your own system) and is not recommended for other than "frivolous" gaming usage, but heck, pc's have a pretty short life anyway don't they?
My system is horribly constrained by an o.e.m motherboard, with all the good stuff disabled. I'm limited to playing with software overclocking, and did some tests using a program called CPUCool. This was able to overclock my P4 2.8c by about 25%, but the overclock was not maintained after a reboot.
In rendering tests, there was a more or less 1:1 relationship between rendering speed and CPU clock - so I saw a 25% improvement in rendering times. I only had bog-standard Samsung value RAM installed too, with only so-so timings, so that probably limited my overclock.
I had hoped to see a similar improvement in direct to MPEG-2 capture. I used to use that when I first started out with VS6, but have since learned the error of my ways. It's still a useful benchmark of your pc's ability to deal with VS, and I found that I was limited to a maximum of 89% on the quality slider even when I had disabled all possible Windows services, and disabled everything I could think of in BIOS too. Unfortunately, when I applied any overclocking with CPUCool, video capture didn't work.
In the real world, that shouldn't matter, since any sensible video editor (person) would work with AVI files. It may well be, and I think it very likely, that overclocking thru BIOS optimisations would not disable video capture.
Venice cores are supposed to be very good overclockers, and if you put them in an enthusiast board you will be able to get some decent results. The whole point of the exercise to my mind would be to get more for less, though. Dual core cpu's perform very well at video encoding, so the favourite setup is something like an Opteron 165, which you can OC on air to over 2.6Ghz.
Of course overclocking will invalidate your warranty (not too relevant if you're putting together your own system) and is not recommended for other than "frivolous" gaming usage, but heck, pc's have a pretty short life anyway don't they?
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peacefrog
Hi 2dogs,
thanx very much for that reply. Yes it is a way to get more for less as i have a limited budget and am exploring this option...so don't get me wrong...not into gaming and not into overclocking....just looking at most practical option.
(peacefrog is actually a Doors song which en-contraire is quite bloody!)
cheers
froggy
thanx very much for that reply. Yes it is a way to get more for less as i have a limited budget and am exploring this option...so don't get me wrong...not into gaming and not into overclocking....just looking at most practical option.
(peacefrog is actually a Doors song which en-contraire is quite bloody!)
cheers
froggy