[ale] Is this a good deal

[Narahari 'n' Savitha]

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> The engineering aspects of this depends on known performance of the
> software doing the video process. If it doesn't have to be real-time (i.e.
> watching the video as it's being transcoded), less speed and more cores and
> RAM are a better buy. If it is a live process you'll need to sacrifice
> virtual machine performance with fewer cores at higher cpu speed and
> moderate ram with really good storage IO. CPU controlled ram is faster than
> chipset controlled but it takes cpu cycles to manage ram. I'm not sure if
> ram refresh is a cpu process or embedded in the ram now. The later would be
> great.
>

My VM's are mainly for some windows work like, taxes and some
non-Linux-available or non-wine-compatible software.  So worst case I can
shut this down during non usage times.  I would like to connect 1TB (3
count) HDD drives that will have the videos that I have ripped out of my
DVD's and VCD's.

May be I can dedicate my AM2+ CPU with 4GB RAM to be able to do this for me
instead of the above beefy machine.

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> The AMD ryzan performance error is being fixed with replacement.
> Apparently the fixed cpu does a kernel compile in under 30 seconds now. :-)
>

So am I better off to wait for a couple more months to get the fixed CPU in
the market ?

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> On September 4, 2017 10:16:04 AM EDT, Narahari 'n' Savitha <
> savithari at gmail.com> wrote:
>>
>> Good email.  Thank You
>> I am under constant confusion.  I was at the ALE  Sunday meets last
>> weekend and before that.  I am trying to build a PC where I can record the
>> SiliconDust output to the disk and stream that to my roku or appletv or
>> chromecast. (whichever is easy)
>>
>> I have gotten great advise about this but what I am have understood so
>> far is that a fast CPU is a must for transcoding from the recorded mpeg2 to
>> .264 format.
>>
>> As Steve has pointed out if I get an i7 (dont know about Ryzen as
>> reliable) and put like 32GB of RAM on it would I be able to do both
>> transcoding and run say 2 or 3 VM's on them ? or am I stretching it too
>> much.
>>
>> -N
>>
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