I have a new machine with a Athlon 7750 2.7 Ghz Black Edition cpu (it
is a 95w dual core Phenom cpu), it is overclocked via changing the FSB
rather than the multiplier (using only the FSB is somewhat limiting,
but allows powernow to still work so that things use less power when
idling).
With the FSB at 230 it is stable and has a 3.1Ghz speed, and will
transcode a 72 minute 1080i video in about 38 minutes (almost 2x real
time), and that with a job on each of the 2 cores. From testing it
appears that the Phenom cpus have about a 20-25% speed advantage at
the same frequency over a non-Phenom AMD cpu on transcoding, on some
other benchmarks the Phenom series has a 2x advantage.
From tests, it should be about equal to a Intel cpu at the same
frequency, but costs quite a bit less ($80 vs. $120 for a 2.8Ghz DC
Intel). Idling it is using 80Watts (with a crap PS-not a 80plus PS,
and a laptop HD--with a real HD and a good PS I suspect that it will
still be around 80W).
Roger
------------------------------------------------------------------------------
This SF.net email is sponsored by:
SourcForge Community
SourceForge wants to tell your story.
http://p.sf.net/sfu/sf-spreadtheword
_______________________________________________
Mvpmc-users mailing list
[email protected]
https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/mvpmc-users
mvpmc wiki: http://mvpmc.wikispaces.com/
