There's a Revolution Calling, Revolution Calling, Revolution Calling You.
No I'm not talking about the great Queensryche song,
Or the fourth of July.
What I'm talking about is Penryn.
If you are buying a new machine in the next few months you need to be aware of what it's going to take to support Penryn. Right now there is only one motherboard chipset that supports Penryn and that's Intel's new P35 Express.
So what is Penryn? No it's not some mythical creature that breaths fire. It is the code name for the next generation processor from Intel. Penryn quads will debut in the 3.0 GHZ plus range.
So why is Penryn important to us? In a word SSE4. SSE4 is a new set of instructions designed to massively increase the speed of media encoding, and decoding. And all an NLE maker has to do to support SSE4 is recompile their application, and whoosh we are travelling in the fast line. SSE4 will make our NLE's fly, and render GPU rendering probably quite irrelevant.
YES YOU WILL WANT IT.
So what do you do about it today as they won't be out for likely 6 months.
A good strategy if you're buying a new machine now would be to get a motherboard with the P35 Express Chipset, and purchase a Core Duo 2 in the 2.4 GHZ range. Don't buy a Quad now, most of software makes poor use of it. Save the money you saved from not buying the Quad to buy the Penryn processor when it comes out.
p.s. Another advantage of the P35 Express Chipset is that it is the first to support DDR3 at 1333mhz which allows you to run the memory bus in full syncronous mode for best performance. DDR3 does however carry about a 50% price premium at the moment. There are numerous P35 motherboards that also support DDR2.
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No I'm not talking about the great Queensryche song,
Or the fourth of July.
What I'm talking about is Penryn.
If you are buying a new machine in the next few months you need to be aware of what it's going to take to support Penryn. Right now there is only one motherboard chipset that supports Penryn and that's Intel's new P35 Express.
So what is Penryn? No it's not some mythical creature that breaths fire. It is the code name for the next generation processor from Intel. Penryn quads will debut in the 3.0 GHZ plus range.
So why is Penryn important to us? In a word SSE4. SSE4 is a new set of instructions designed to massively increase the speed of media encoding, and decoding. And all an NLE maker has to do to support SSE4 is recompile their application, and whoosh we are travelling in the fast line. SSE4 will make our NLE's fly, and render GPU rendering probably quite irrelevant.
YES YOU WILL WANT IT.
So what do you do about it today as they won't be out for likely 6 months.
A good strategy if you're buying a new machine now would be to get a motherboard with the P35 Express Chipset, and purchase a Core Duo 2 in the 2.4 GHZ range. Don't buy a Quad now, most of software makes poor use of it. Save the money you saved from not buying the Quad to buy the Penryn processor when it comes out.
p.s. Another advantage of the P35 Express Chipset is that it is the first to support DDR3 at 1333mhz which allows you to run the memory bus in full syncronous mode for best performance. DDR3 does however carry about a 50% price premium at the moment. There are numerous P35 motherboards that also support DDR2.
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