Can I process AVCHD and MPEG-2 HD with Intel® Pentium® D Processor 830 3ghz ?

nelcatjar

Newbie Joined: Sep 15, 2010 18:27 Messages: 4 Offline

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Sep 15, 2010 18:56

Can I process AVCHD and MPEG-2 HD with Intel® Pentium® D Processor 830 3ghz ? I'm not sure I understand.
I have no plans to do Blue Ray nor 3D. I have AVCHD Lite files from a Panasonic DMC-ZS3.
My chip does not handle hyper threading, so what does that limit me to?

My computer:
Dell XPS 400 - Intel® Pentium® D Processor 830 3ghz
http://ark.intel.com/Product.aspx?id=27513&processor=830&spec-codes=SL88S,SL8CM,SL8CN,SL8CP
RAM: 4 gig
Video card: Galaxy GeForce GT 220 - 1024MB
OS: XP, Maybe upgrade to Windows 7.

PowerDirector 8 CPU system requirements:
Optimized for CPUs with MMX/SSE/SSE2/3DNow!/3DNow! Extension/HyperThreading technology.
- AVI Capture/Production: Pentium 2 450 MHz or Athlon 64 2800+
- VCD Quality (MPEG-1) Profiles: Pentium 3 600 MHz or AMD Athlon 64 3200+
- DVD Quality (MPEG-2) profiles: Pentium 4 2.2 GHz or AMD Athlon 64 4000+
- High Quality MPEG-4 and WMV, QuickTime, RealVideo Profiles: Pentium 4 2.4 GHz or AMD Athlon 64 X2 3600+
- AVCHD and MPEG-2 HD Profiles: Pentium Core 2 Duo E6400 or AMD Athlon 64 X2 5000+

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ynotfish

Senior Contributor Location: N.S.W. Australia Joined: May 08, 2009 02:06 Messages: 9977 Offline

Sep 15, 2010 20:45

Hi there -

Based on the minimum recommended CPU for AVCHD... http://www.cpubenchmark.net/cpu_lookup.php?cpu=Intel+Core2+Duo+E6400+%40+2.13GHz

Here's your CPU (well - I think this is it)... http://www.cpubenchmark.net/cpu_lookup.php?cpu=Intel+Pentium+D+3.00GHz

I would say you'd be overstretching your PC! A quad core machine is generally recommended by users for HD editing.

Your GPU looks OK http://www.videocardbenchmark.net/video_lookup.php?cpu=GeForce+GT+220

Cheers - Tony
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nelcatjar

Newbie Joined: Sep 15, 2010 18:27 Messages: 4 Offline

Sep 16, 2010 09:37

Thanks so much for the reply.

Well, it looks like I can skip buying a new PC and should use my laptop: Sony Vaio vgn-z610y. And it has 4 gig DD3 Ram.
http://www.docs.sony.com/release/specs/VGNZ610YB_mksp.pdf

From the CPU Benchmark chart, here is my laptop CPU:
-> Intel Core2 Duo P8600 @ 2.40GHz - 1,610

... and PowerDirector recomendation and benchmark:
-> Intel Core2 Duo E6400 @ 2.13GHz - 1,270

I'm not so sure about the laptop video card, but there is nothing I can do about that. I don't see the 9300 Mobile graphics card listed. The GeForce Web site said it had 8 CUDA cores. Here is the benchmark.
->GeForce 9300M GS - 155

Processor: NVIDIA® GeForce(R) 9300M GS GPU with Total Available Graphics Memory of 1880MB (max.) and Mobile Intel® Graphics Media Accelerator 4500MHD with Intel® Clear Video Technology.
Total Available Graphics Memory: 1759MB (max.)
Video RAM: 128MB of dedicated video RAM
Technology: Hybrid Graphics System
Chipset: Mobile Intel® GM45 Express Chipset
Max. External Resolution via VGA: 2048x1536
Max. External Display Resolution via HDMI™ : 1920x1080
Max. External Resolution via DVI: 1920x1200

This message was edited 1 time. Last update was at Sep 16. 2010 12:48