bum wrote:The vast magoirty of programs suport only a single core. Unless your video editor supports dual cores, then its a waste of money.
Uhm...no.
I have a dual processor system that I built so I could take advantage of it during video editing. Adobe Premiere *is* a multi-threaded program and thus every other frame, in theory, is rendered by a different processor. I for one know it works since I've *never* had a render time of less than 10 minutes. Even with huge AE compositions.
Also if I wanna do something else like play a game, since Windows XP is also supports dual processors (looks at task manager and sees two CPU affinities that I can set), I can set the render job to CPU0 and then go do something else with CPU1. That way, I don't even feel the render in the background and can still do things.
As for dual*cores* which just came out. All you need to do is upgrade your BIOS on your motherboard and the operating system will recognize the chip in a similar way as my dual processor set-up. Given that your OS supports it like mine does.
I've said before and I'll say it again. Dual processing is an editor's best friend. I'd much rather spend a little extra money on the motherboard and chip than on say more RAM or even HD space. I haven't even edited with the MJPEG swap method in years. I just use the raw AVS and edit fine and quickly (well for me).
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