"SSE4" (Yorkfield, Q9300) - Worth $55

Ave,

I had a similar debate in another thread but I needed to attract people with SSE4 knowledge so I'm starting this thread.

I'm upgrading my PC - and 80% of it's usage is Video Encoding. Primarily, TMPGEnc Xpress, WMV-HD Encoding. The post 11/07 release of TMPGEnc Xpress included SSE4 support.

I will certainly be OC'ing whatever chip I get - but like I said - 80% of my system usage is Video Encoding and other video editing related tasks like container extraction, development, re-encode, inter-codec conversions etcetera.

I was going to get the Q6600 but I'm considering Q9300 now. There's no doubts the Q6600 will OC more then the Q9300 - what I need to establish is whether the SSE4 performance gain (Q9300) will benefit more then the Clock Speed gain (Q6600).

From what I understand - I can OC Q6600 on my P35/Air setup to a stable 3.4Ghz - 3.5Ghz ... and OC Q9300 to a stable 3.2Ghz. I don't think the 0.2Ghz difference is going to be immaculate - that considered - the difference is SSE4 - and I just don't know how much of a performance/speed I'll gain in my encoding with that.

The cost difference is $55 - and I'm on a budget - so that difference is bit much for me. Do I really need to spend $55 and get the Q9300? Or will I not notice that big a difference, since the Q6600 will OC more?

Anyone here who's actually experienced with SSE4/Video Encoding and it's benefits?

Thanks!

With the L8XX batches, it's quite possible that the Q6600 won't get you as far. However, the extra cache could make up for that.

Got the Q9450 after all the debate - more Cache then Q6600 + SSE4.

hi mate

have you seen what nvidia is doing with CUDA porting video encoding

with a bit of luck and some more software developers we will have some wider range of codecs ported to do encoding on GFX cards which are far superior

have a look at the video i took during presentations comparing a CPU vs GPU encoding

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8C_Pj1Ep4nw

you'll be buying 8000 or later series GFX card if you're after the right system

quad will still help you in the mean time while we get someone to port divx and other codecs to CUDA :)

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Originally Posted by dinos22

hi mate

have you seen what nvidia is doing with CUDA porting video encoding

with a bit of luck and some more software developers we will have some wider range of codecs ported to do encoding on GFX cards which are far superior

have a look at the video i took during presentations comparing a CPU vs GPU encoding

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8C_Pj1Ep4nw

you'll be buying 8000 or later series GFX card if you're after the right system

quad will still help you in the mean time while we get someone to port divx and other codecs to CUDA :)

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Sounds very exciting! This is definately news - although it was take a while for this to become standard (with both Codecs & Software supporting this), but it should definately push HD Video Encoding a lot further. In the meantime, I think I should be able to derive much juice out of the Q9450 for my HD Video Encoding.

cuda should do all that stuff now if possible...surely? leaves cpu in the dust. :eh: