Jun Fu capacitor advocate
Handbrake
So I've been using Handbrake recently to encode some video on my main pc...
This cpu is a Intel 5960x. Not really a slouch, considering it's at 4.6ghz.
I thought I'd steamroll straight through the 11 hours of 720p video (digitizing some dvd's). After all, its got 16 threads! How hard could that be?
4 Hours later, with my room at about 50 degrees (outside is 30), and 100% cpu usage, finished it.
Holy !@#$ It takes forever to encode video. Maybe i'll have to upgrade to the 6950x :P
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There's a reason press use Handbrake as a benchmark.
THE Bruce Dickinson
Past a certain point, Handbrake doesn't know what to do with extra threads. I've got a dual Xeon E5-2670 rig to my immediate right... takes two or three Handbrake instances to load the CPUs past 30% or so.
Jun Fu capacitor advocate
Damn. How many cores do you use?Originally Posted by Oklahoma Wolf
Maybe your hdd/optical drive is the bottleneck :P
THE Bruce Dickinson
16 cores, 32 threads. Drives aren't the issue, nor is memory... it's running 64GB.
Jun Fu capacitor advocate
I'm jealous.
Flux Capacitor User
Those Xeons can/could be had recently for some sweet, sweet prices second-hand.
Supposedly Facebook was upgrading their servers and flooded the market with those.
THE Bruce Dickinson
That's how I got mine - spent $225 Canadian for both chips. The mobo was the expensive part - Asrock EP2C602. $400 brand new, and I had to wait a bit before Newegg had enough stock to send me one.
Even so, the entire build came in at roughly the same cost as my older 2500K rig did back in the day.
Jun Fu capacitor advocate
What's the power consumption/clock speed on those?
THE Bruce Dickinson
2.6-3.3GHz. They're 8 core Sandy Bridge chips, so they definitely take some power compared to the newer ones, but not too bad. 115W TDP. My EVGA T2 850W is handling them fine, along with an MSI 290X.
Enough of a difference in power to be a big deal for Facebook, though. Mine are C1 (SR0H8) stepping, so no VT-D support, but I don't really need it.
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