Second box for helping with encoding

[funkytwig]

I used to have a computer for encoding and used a second one to help and it helped a lot. What I do remember was with a gigabit ethernet there is no point in using more than two as it saturates the network, think this is correct.

I'm not thinking of doing this again and thinking of getting a cheap used computer for this. Seen an 'ACER Veriton X6610G SFF Core i7-2600 3.4hz 8GB 500GB COMPUTER' for £60b and that sounds ideal. It has no discrete GPU but don't think this is a big deal.

What do people think, does this sound like a good plan?

I actually have an i3 and an old AMD-based PC with a GPU lying around but figure the single i7 would be better.

Ben

[Carsten]

FAST remote encoder boxes saturate a gigabit ethernet connection quickly. If you use a decent number of slower boxes, this is not an issue.

Get a CPU with the highest number of cores, and HyperThreading. Memory should be in the 8-16GByte range. Everything else is irrelevant.

- Carsten