Darren New <dne### [at] sanrrcom> wrote:
> > Even those who do video encoding could probably
> > do it just as well with a dual-core or even a single-core.

> Of course. Just not as fast.

  Fast enough, in most cases. I think memory and I/O speed will be the
bottleneck at some point, after which the extra cores will be worth a
paperweight.

  (It's surprising how much effect memory bus speed has eg. on video
capturing.)

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                                                          - Warp

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