Would A Jump from 2.4Gz to 3.2Ghz be noticable?

Post by **racketboy** » Fri Dec 07, 2007 10:11 am

I'm still running my old 2.4Ghz P4 with 800Mhz bus
My my mobo supports a 3.2Ghz chip (actually 3.4 as well, but those are pricier)

Would it be worth upgrading? It looks like I could snag the CPU on eBay for around $60-$70

My machine just gets a little laggy with lots of Flash-based stuff running in Firefox and when converting stuff to xvid and such.

On a side note, I wonder if I'm just better off just picking up a spare P4 machine from work for about $100 for just video processing...

Post by **marurun** » Fri Dec 07, 2007 11:48 am

Why not both? A jump from 2.4 to 3.2 will certainly make a difference, but not as much as the numbers might suggest, because nothing else in your system is getting faster. Some task will speed up, though, noticeably.

Post by **Adderall** » Fri Dec 07, 2007 12:02 pm

I think if you made a RAM upgrade at the same time, you will have a nice boost in performance.

Post by **racketboy** » Fri Dec 07, 2007 12:14 pm

Adderall wrote:I think if you made a RAM upgrade at the same time, you will have a nice boost in performance.

I have 1GB already -- not sure if 2GB would improve much...

Post by **Mozgus** » Fri Dec 07, 2007 1:40 pm

At that price to upgrade, it's not worth it. Flash has become very demanding in recent years. On my AMD 4200 Dual Core, I still get lag in some flashes when in full screen at 1280x960 on high quality.

What video card/chip did you say you were running?

Post by **racketboy** » Fri Dec 07, 2007 1:45 pm

Mozgus wrote:At that price to upgrade, it's not worth it. Flash has become very demanding in recent years. On my AMD 4200 Dual Core, I still get lag in some flashes when in full screen at 1280x960 on high quality.

What video card/chip did you say you were running?

Yeah, I think I'm gonna install Flashblock on Firefox on that machine (I already use it on my older laptops)

Here's my card:
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.a ... 6814121525

Post by **Mozgus** » Fri Dec 07, 2007 2:40 pm

racketboy wrote:
Mozgus wrote:At that price to upgrade, it's not worth it. Flash has become very demanding in recent years. On my AMD 4200 Dual Core, I still get lag in some flashes when in full screen at 1280x960 on high quality.

What video card/chip did you say you were running?
Yeah, I think I'm gonna install Flashblock on Firefox on that machine (I already use it on my older laptops)

Here's my card:
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.a ... 6814121525

Ok that card shouldn't be causing flash slowdown. Hmm. You have smooth scrolling disabled in firefox right? I find that reduces lag on flash sites.
I'd like to mention that I used a weak pentium 3 chip system for a month recently and I didn't have much trouble on any sites. I'm not sure why you are.

Post by **racketboy** » Fri Dec 07, 2007 2:51 pm

Mozgus wrote:
racketboy wrote:
Mozgus wrote:At that price to upgrade, it's not worth it. Flash has become very demanding in recent years. On my AMD 4200 Dual Core, I still get lag in some flashes when in full screen at 1280x960 on high quality.

What video card/chip did you say you were running?
Yeah, I think I'm gonna install Flashblock on Firefox on that machine (I already use it on my older laptops)

Here's my card:
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.a ... 6814121525
Ok that card shouldn't be causing flash slowdown. Hmm. You have smooth scrolling disabled in firefox right? I find that reduces lag on flash sites.
I'd like to mention that I used a weak pentium 3 chip system for a month recently and I didn't have much trouble on any sites. I'm not sure why you are.

Not sure about the scrolling setting.
It doesn't happen to me all the time.
It just adds another cpu hog onto the pile when I have a bunch of stuff running.
If I'm just surfing with a few tabs and have some flash, its no big deal.

Post by **lordofduct** » Fri Dec 07, 2007 3:17 pm

buying a new processor will increase the speed at which you encode xvid, but only slightly... maybe 1 0r 2 minutes faster for a 2 hour video.

The flash issue, Mozgus seems to be helping you on it already... but yeah a new CPU really wouldn't fix that. Not enough increase to really make a difference.

Post by **racketboy** » Fri Dec 07, 2007 3:21 pm

lordofduct wrote:buying a new processor will increase the speed at which you encode xvid, but only slightly... maybe 1 0r 2 minutes faster for a 2 hour video.

The flash issue, Mozgus seems to be helping you on it already... but yeah a new CPU really wouldn't fix that. Not enough increase to really make a difference.

Well, that essentially answers my question.
a couple extra minutes off encoding time isn't worth it.
How much do you time would a midrange core 2 duo encode 2 hours in?