AW: [vorbis] Are AMDs preferable?

[Karol Pietrzak]

On 30 May 2001, fungus wrote:

> The CPU isn't everything though. I've just upgraded my
> computer in two stages. The first upgrade was a really
> fast hard disk, the second upgrade was from a 350mHz PII
> to a 1 gHz Athlon. I swear the hard disk upgrade made more
> difference to the general feel of the machine than the CPU
> did. I only really notice the CPU upgrade when I'm compiling, and
> I've already forgotton how slow it used to be. If I had to choose
> between the two upgrades I'd probably take the hard disk over the
> CPU. 350 mHz is perfectly good enough for editing, surfing,
> Office, etc. The hard disk will definitely make the apps start up
> faster than a new CPU will and you'll notice that more.

i can totally vouch for that.  getting a new hard drive on my 
233mhz pentium i mmx machine sped up the system by around 20% 
(more in linux because i can optimize the drive there).  the 
operating system also makes a huge difference.  most ppl's win98 
/ win2k machines work slower (again, except on processor 
intensive tasks) on most tasks because i don't have the overhead 
of having ie5.x running all the time on this win95 box.  e.g. 
windows explorer shows up in under .5 seconds on my box; a 
500mhz piii on windows me takes ~3 seconds.  i can't stand 
that...

to bring the conversation back to vorbis, imo processor will 
make a larger difference than memory and hard drive combined.  
processor use will almost always be 100% when encoding, but the 
wasted throughput on the hard drive doing that same operation 
would prolly be less than 500kb/s, <3% of the total drive speed.

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