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This is from someone who has a laptop encoding at any given time ( Me :) ) :I was thinking of looking at an older dual XEON Mobo (if I can find one) as I think the multi-threading is proibably better than just the number of cores - but I'm open to suggestion here. Bog standard i7 probably won't be significantly be better than the i5 for this job unless it has a load more cores as well as hyper threading.
1 - The more cores the better .
2 - Threads are virtual blahs and would only give a marginal gain if you plan to encode multiple files at same time .
3 - i7 does better than an i5 on same clock speed (That was the intention really) .
4 - GPU Acceleration if supported by encoder significantly increases encoding speed up to x2 .
5 - NVIDIA encoding acceleration does better than AMD encoding acceleration .
6 - No need for a cutting edge GPU presence , a GPU does a significant difference but the faster the GPU gets is really marginal (NVIDIA 840M acceleration vs GTX1060i were almost identical) .
7 - The optimization of the encoding program itself does a significant difference , and even program version , here is a list sorted to my preference :
a - Any Video Converter Ultimate 6.2.0 or 5.9.3 (The fastest out there , more optimized for NVIDIA)
b - Avidemux 2.5 (The most reliable version , the rest have instabilities , performs similar to above but with a marginal loss of quality)
c - VSDC Pro 5.7.7.694 (More optimized for AMD GPU and may freeze with NVIDIA)
d - Sony Vegas Pro 13 (Doesn't recognize GPU acceleration)
Last edited by nIGHTmAYOR; 07 Nov 2017 at 13:05.