Re: Compare 2 computers vs. Dual Core
- From: "Clark" <who@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Fri, 05 May 2006 12:43:05 GMT
Thanks, good info. I don't intend being anywhere near as intensive as you,
but it looks like I should not have problems if I follow you suggestions. I
was thinking of a P d 940 since the price drop.
Clark
"Nate Edel" <archmage@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
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Clark <who@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
I was wondering what Adobe Premiere would do with a dual core,
I don't know if Premiere's core will use dual core, but I know that many
of
its filters will.
answered that question, and the other thing I was worried about was
burning
to DVD while something else is going on. That is not recommended on a
one
processor system, but if you can set the programs to use just one core, I
suppose that would allow for such use, especially if you had a dedicated
Hard Drive.
The dedicated hard drive is much more important (and a goodly size memory
cache at the application level). I did that all the time on my home
system,
prior to the most recent upgrade, and burning an ISO image (using Nero or
DVD Decrypter) from HD #2 or #3 was no problem at all. From ISOs, it's
even
possible to burn two at once and still use IE or other light applications,
as long as the two source drives are separate.
I may have to consider how to set up the hard drives/DVD burner
as far as SATA or IDE to keep them from being interrupted.
FWIW, my old setup was:
HD1 - primary master (C:\ , K: (ISOS3))
HD2 - primary slave (later SATA) (D:\ (DATA), I:\ (ISOS1))
HD3 - SATA (E:\ (VIDEO), J:\ (ISOS2), L:\ (ISOS4))
DVD1 - (16x) secondary master
DVD2 - (8x) 1394 external
DVD3 - (rarely used) secondary slave
DVD1 and 3 were flakey trying to burn simultaneously at full speed for
DVD1,
but could at 4x; DVD 1 + 2 could burn simultaneously at each their own
full
speed from any pair of HD.
Occasionally got a few coasters when burning from J:\ and L:\
simultaneously
because I forgot they were on the same drive; also, burning from K: tended
to require not doing much of anything else on the system.
On my new system (P-D 940) it's now HD1-3 all SATA, and the 16x and 8x
drives both on the internal PATA channel. We'll see if they'll both burn
at
full speed at the same time.
For burning DVD images from windows, one very handy thing is to create a
partition on each drive for images - I usually do 20 or 25gb - and then
format it with 64k blocks rather than the XP default. Then clear and
reformat them frequently, to avoid fragmentation.
--
Nate Edel http://www.cubiclehermit.com/
"What's the use of yearning for Elysian Fields when you know you can't get
'em, and would only let 'em out on building leases if you had 'em?" (WSG)
.
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