[geeks] Athlon 64 X2 3800+

[Bill Bradford]

On Thu, Jun 21, 2007 at 05:23:03PM -0400, Sridhar Ayengar wrote:
> Well, a few days ago, I decided to splurge and bought myself a Blu-Ray 
> burner.  I am pleased to report that using only the software decoder, my 
> box can decode a Blu-Ray movie in 1080p using only just under 1/2 of one 
> processor core!  I am tremendously pleased.

I remember when real-time MP3 encoding was something to be amazed at (ten
years ago).  Queue up files to be encoded overnight, or dedicate a machine
to encode most of the time, as it took 30+minutes/song.

Nowdays, 6x, 8x, etc.  

Bill

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Bill Bradford 
Houston, Texas