Pentium II, III, IV, XEON??? Which is better for VVV 2.0?

capnjosh wrote on 11/20/2001, 3:29 PM

I am finding that I really want to make VV quicker with the larger projects. It seems the CPU is really the main component the affects the speed, so I want to upgrade. Right now I have a Celeron 600, so it gets a bit slow. Which processor- Pentium II, III, Celeron, or XEON- will give me the most speed, not so much in rendering but in actual editing and preview?
Does anyone know about how these various processors run VV? I would especially like to know whether or not I should be trying to find a processor with a large on-die memory cache, or if actually clock speed is mainly all that's needed.

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tserface wrote on 11/20/2001, 4:54 PM

I just built a computer using an AMD T-Bird (1.4Ghz) and a Soyo Dragon K7 MB (DDR 266Mhz). It screams compared to a similarly setup P4 that I also have. I highly recommend it. Thus far it works flawlessly with VV. And, any 1394 problems I had on my old machine are not mysteriously gone and my camera and other OHCI devices work great as well (no glitches).

My two Twinkies.

Tom

winrockpost wrote on 11/20/2001, 5:32 PM

Our Athlon 1.3gig blows away our pentium 4 ,1.8 where video is concerned.

Rednroll wrote on 11/20/2001, 7:29 PM

I agree, AMD Athlon rocks!!! Pentium who?

PipelineAudio wrote on 11/20/2001, 7:36 PM

is there a dual cpu athalon setup that works well yet?
without the early VIA chipset troubles?

vanblah wrote on 11/20/2001, 9:03 PM

I too would be interested to hear what people have to say about the new Athlon MP series. It seems the TYAN Tiger S2462 board is the only one to support these dual processors.

Rockitglider wrote on 11/20/2001, 10:23 PM

Hello,
If you want to stick with Pentium, which some people do, Then I recomend a P4 But make sure you get one of the newer released ones, because the first P4's that came out had some problems.
I believe it was the 1Gig and 1.2Gig versions.
As long as you buy one over 1.4 you should be ok.

See ya, Rockit