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Is Handbrake CPU or GPU intensive...

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slick316

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I mean, which matters most? Both?

I am working a lot more lately, just stuck sitting in an office all day. I need to finish ripping my DVD collection, so I figure I would do it on my office PC.

At home, on my Windows PC, HB encodes quick, like 90fps or something (I have a Q6600, 4GB ram, 768MB 8800GTX, etc.).

On my MBP, it will go at about 30fps.

But my office PC, wow, its slow as heck. Its a 2.66ghz C2D 3mb L2 cache 1066FSB, 2GB ram, but the video card sucks (X3100 or whatever that onboard Intel POS is), and it encodes at about 15fps.

Is that normal? I thought it should at least match the MBP. Or do I need to have something on it checked? Seems to run fine, has no BS software installed, same as my home PC really. I should mention its a Dell Vostro 200.

Any suggestions? I have about 15 DVD's left to do, but I might not bother until I can do it at home since its so much quicker.
 
Hmm...something is definitely wrong with that PC then, 15fps seems awfully slow when the processor should be fast enough.
 
I figured it out, doesn't even make sense.

I unplugged my external hard drive, as soon as I did this, the FPS jumped up to 50. It seems to be hovering around 45fps right now, which sounds better to me than 15fps.

I know its a Dell and was only $500, but really, the USB controller slowing down the computer?
 
slick316 said:
I figured it out, doesn't even make sense.

I unplugged my external hard drive, as soon as I did this, the FPS jumped up to 50. It seems to be hovering around 45fps right now, which sounds better to me than 15fps.

I know its a Dell and was only $500, but really, the USB controller slowing down the computer?
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once again, virus checkers??? they suck a lot of CPU.

were you saving to the external USB drive?
 
Drive wasn't in use. I plugged it in a couple hours ago, couple a few documents, and thats it. The computer isn't doing a single thing other than Handbraking.
Its new, about 2 weeks old. I pretty much work for myself, and set the computer up myself. No goofy software on it. Avast for anti virus, Office 2007, VLC for videos, and Handbrake (Firefox also).

I guess there could be an issue with the external hard drive, maybe I should run a disk check on it or something?
 
Very CPU intensive. Hopefully with Snow Leopard (Open CL) it will utilize both the CPU and GPU for faster encoding of movies.
 
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