On Thu, 1 Mar 2001 07:43:02 -0500, David Szlucha wrote:

>I have a PII-400 and 128MB RAM with Windows ME and I've found that it takes
>about 3x the time of an AVI to encode a VCD MPG with TMPGEnc. If I upgrade
>the
>CPU to a PIII-800 would I see a dramatic improvement, i.e., encoding close
>to
>real time (or the same time of the AVI)? I'm just interested in a ball park
>figure to see if it's worth it for me to upgrade. Thanks!

You would probably see only a moderate increase in render
speed... I would guess if a render now takes 100 seconds,
it would take about 60 seconds after the upgrade (the
improvement is unlikely to be 1:1 with the CPU speed
increase, alas... (going from 450MHz to 800MHz improved
my Premiere render times from 100 seconds to about 67
seconds, for example).