Will dual core be faster than this setup?

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junglemike

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Hello everyone. I'm encodig video in x264 all the time. all my computers are working 24/7.
Currently I have these computers:
1) Pentium4 celeron 1700mhz/512mb sdram
2) PIII-1000mhz/256mb
3) PIII-800mhz/128mb
4) PIII-500mhz/128mb
By the way P3-1000 encodes faster than celeron 1700. Strange.
Anyway. I'm thinking about buying some very cheap dual-core. For example Pentium D 805 2.26ghz. I don't have much money, so I can't afford expensive cpus.
The question is - will this cheap dual-core (or other dual-core) will outperform all these 4 comps combined?
I don't play games or anything. I'm only encoding video.
Thank you
 
a good number cruncher...

so long as the app you use utilises the 2nd core, then you should notice it being pretty fast. i am not sure about faster than all four put together though... anyone?
 
I'm encoding video in Xvid and X264 formats. All the programs are optimized for any existing instructions and can run on multiple cores.
Can i just count th total amount of mhz? like that:
1700+1000+800+500=4000mhz
2600+2600=5200mhz - faster
 
well if i recall correctly even the Pentium D 820 (2.8ghz) beat the FX-57 in encoding quite soundly. the Pentium D 805 will be considerably better than anything you have listed even using only one core. using a multi-threaded encoder there is no contest. this would be quite a good upgrade choice. it is 2.66ghz by the way.
 
Thanks for the answer.
the Pentium D 805 will be considerably better than anything you have listed even using only one core.
Are you saying that single core 2.66ghz is faster than 1700+1000+800+500=4000mhz? How's that?
 
nitestick said:
well if i recall correctly even the Pentium D 820 (2.8ghz) beat the FX-57 in encoding quite soundly. the Pentium D 805 will be considerably better than anything you have listed even using only one core. using a multi-threaded encoder there is no contest. this would be quite a good upgrade choice. it is 2.66ghz by the way.

What? Link. A low end cpu claiming to beat a high end AMD cpu is quite a bold claim without backup.
 
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