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ToolPackinMama
06-30-2003, 08:16 AM
KBear wrote: I plan to do alot of video work (mostly encoding) and want to upgrade my 700mhz TBird. I've been a supporter of AMD the underdog for quite some time now. However, my research on CPU benchmarks shows that the P4 (with its SSE) smokes even the Opteron when it comes to encoding. Please, please convince me that I should stay with AMD. Thanks.

That means a new motherboard too, yes? Have you looked at the NVIDIA
chipset boards?
Stacey
06-30-2003, 05:30 PM
ToolPackinMama wrote:
KBear wrote: I plan to do alot of video work (mostly encoding) and want to upgrade my 700mhz TBird. I've been a supporter of AMD the underdog for quite some time now. However, my research on CPU benchmarks shows that the P4 (with its SSE) smokes even the Opteron when it comes to encoding. Please, please convince me that I should stay with AMD. Thanks. That means a new motherboard too, yes? Have you looked at the NVIDIA chipset boards?


Have you ever done video editing or tested the two platforms doing it?
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Stacey

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