Why the Core i7 may not be a good enthusiast processor

Guys, any way to overclock the dual core i series?

 

I believe you can overclock anything, but why would you want to? They are pretty fast to begin with.

 

There is no "too fast"

 

There is when you're bottlenecked elsewhere

 

Then elsewhere is not fast enough.

 

The cpu is by far the largest bottleneck when encoding a video, and thats the one task I really need speed for.

I just got a HD camcorder finally too.

 

what video editing suite do you use?

 

I have not done any real editing in along while but I do the brunt of it with Sony Vegas.

Most of my videos of the late are just fraps recordings and I dont need to edit them I just splice them together with avisynth scrips and encode them with x264.exe and neroaacenc.exe then toss them on youtube.

When I was really into editing I would also do cool special effects on Adobe After Effects.

 

i use cyberlink powerdirector since its easy to use, fast, multithreaded, and supports gpu encoding.
wanted to try vegas pro but i think it isnt multithreaded yet.
after effects is just too expensive but probably the most versitile

 

Vegas is multi threaded, always has been as far as I know, or it probably just depends on the codec/encoder you use.

The new version vegas pro 9 also has a 64bit exe file so thats good so it can take advantage of more than 4gb of ram. The G73 laptop has 8GB of RAM on it.

Gpu encoding is nice for speed, but limited to certain codecs. Id not sacrifice the quality/versatility of my codec just for gpu accelerated encoding. x264.exe is the best video encoder period which of course is the H264 codec.

 

Given that this thread is already off-topic, is there any video encoding application that can utilize the 3870 X2 for GPGPU purposes?

 

power director supports ati stream and crossfire when encoding i h264 and mpeg 2 and 4.
although the 3870 is not mentioned in their website it should work.
im not sure if adobe or sony vegas has support for this.
at any rate power director has been the fastest for me, but thats with an intel/nvidia combination though.

http://www.cyberlink.com/products/powerdirector/faster-performance_en_US.html

 

Yes let's get back on topic people. I'd really hate to start deleting posts or even closing the thread.

 

I need more cpu power for bad company 2. That's basically it. I can't stand playing games when I drop to 30 fps...

 

Ok - that works, now the 720QM is @ 1.6GHz, now how to manipulate the multiplier? The boxes in the RealTemp program are greyed-out,and thus I cannot make changes as desired.

 

Can't u turn off turbo boost using ur BIOS? But why must u disable it? it will reduce the power efficiency of ur CPU..

 

No option in the BIOS of an Acer laptop to do anything with the i7 cpu....

 

fail... that's why i'd get a clevo or alienware... always has BIOS options... but i just got another idea... you can disable turbo by uninstalling the intel turbo driver....AHAA!!