New Server Question

[Racem22]

Hey guys, not sure if this is in appropriate thread. Please move if it is. But anyways I'm building a new server with a Asus KGPE-D16 Motherboard(dual socket G34) and two AMD Opteron 6128 8-Core processors and was wondering if DVDFab even supports this many cores. No big deal. I won't be doing much compression on it anyways, but definitely wanted to test on it to see what kind of times it would get(from a BD-50 to a BD-25). Thanks for the help guys.

[Hawk]

FAB uses X.264 encoder for blu-ray compression and X.264 is multi threaded. So in theroy it should use all processor power available. But it may be limited by external factors. Such as source drive speed and video codecs on disc. Another thing is some source material is easy to compress than others.

[Racem22]

Yeah I guess I'm going to have to go with a higher end SSD because I know most hard drives are the bottleneck in most systems. I guess we'll see how it works out when I get it all together. Thanks for the help.

[Complication]

You are better off spending your money on a good video card with CUDA support. The disc I/O is rarely a problem unless you have multiple encodes going on at the same time. Multiple processors help to an extent but the effect diminishes quickly past about 3 cores in use. With CUDA you have a chip that is specifically designed for video processing.

[Racem22]

Yeah I was actually looking at those tesla units by nvidia. Maybe stick one of those and an nvidia quadro in there but I think it will come out beyond my price range but we'll see. I mean this build isn't going to be just for compression with DVDFab. I just wanted to try it out and see what times I would get.