<div dir="auto">Depends on your needs. I think video transcoding in the hardware is available for most modern video chipsets. If your priority is speed over quality look there.</div><div class="gmail_extra"><br><div class="gmail_quote">On 14 Sep 2017 12:46 PM, "DJ-Pfulio" <<a href="mailto:DJPfulio@jdpfu.com" target="_blank">DJPfulio@jdpfu.com</a>> wrote:<br type="attribution"><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">BTW, for transcoding, more than 6G RAM is overkill.<br>
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Why don't you transcode something on your current PC? How long does it<br>
take? Is that acceptable or not? What is the "passmark" for it? Now<br>
use those amazing fractions to guestimate what the CPU you want will<br>
take to transcode the same file. Is that acceptable?<br>
<br>
I would also look at the required power used - which leads to the fan<br>
needed which leads to the noise created. If the system is alone in the<br>
basement, perhaps noise doesn't matter to you? Mine sit in my home<br>
office, so noise and excess heat is unacceptable to me.<br>
<br>
Every other time you post, it includes running a few VMs. More CPUs<br>
helps with running more VMs.<br>
<br>
Is it worth it?<br>
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<br>
It depends. We cannot say.<br>
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On 09/14/2017 12:26 PM, DJ-Pfulio wrote:<br>
> It depends.<br>
><br>
> On 09/14/2017 12:11 PM, Narahari 'n' Savitha wrote:<br>
>> Friends:<br>
>><br>
>> I am trying to a PC for transcoding purposes and dont want to spend a<br>
>> lot if I can avoid.<br>
>><br>
>> I was almost ready with Microcenter for<br>
>><br>
>> FX 8350 CPU with eight cores ($70) PassMark of CPU is 8900<br>
>> Mother board ASUS ($80)<br>
>> Memory 16GB CAS9 ($120)<br>
>> Paste is $4<br>
>><br>
>> All together with taxes = = 282 (no case, no disk, no vid card, key<br>
>> board etc., etc., not that ineed it)<br>
>> I can reuse existing case.<br>
>><br>
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>> However I saw this for $180 all inclusive.<br>
>> <a href="https://flash.newegg.com/Product/9SIA5YV4XJ8211?icid=WP_0_09102017" rel="noreferrer" target="_blank">https://flash.newegg.com/<wbr>Product/9SIA5YV4XJ8211?icid=<wbr>WP_0_09102017</a><br>
>><br>
>> The PassMark for the CPU - Intel Core i5-2400 Quad Core Processor -<br>
>> 3.1GHz is 5907<br>
>><br>
>> ----------------------------<br>
>><br>
>> So is the extra 100 dollars for the powerful CPU worth it ?<br>
>><br>
>> The purpose of the PC is purely for transcoding purpose the OTA channels<br>
>> via HDHR.<br>
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