thanks Re: AMD or Intel: performance, price and ethics

[Augustin <beginner2005@masquilier.org>]

On Saturday 20 September 2008 21:57:04 Jochen Schulz wrote:
> I don't edit videos but I transcode them quite often and you can be
> sure: the more cores for encoding, the better. But beware that
> there are codecs that cannot (or at least currently don't) use
> multiple threads. These only use one CPU.
>
> From my two minute research, it appears Blender can use multiple
> threads as well, so it's better to use, say, 4*2.6GHz instead of
> 2*3GHz.

Thanks for your reply. It's all very helpful.

The multi-thread capabilities of blender and (partially) ffmpeg is a 
good news.


Thanks.

Augustin.