Friday, August 24, 2007

Real world benchmark of the super fast PC

You've read about the PC upgrade I did during the summer. SuperPC Well, things have been going great with that upgrade PC and it has been super stable which is not guaranteed when you are overclocking. The other thing that have be en doing off and on is converting all my CDs into FLAC which a lossless (no data discard format, unlike MP3 which is lossy). The goal is to have the entire CD collection on a server so I can access the entire collection via the Squeezebox 3 network music player. On the old PC, it would take nearly a minute to convert a song from WAV to FLAC. On this new PC, it takes about 7 seconds and that is just using one of the cores. WOW !. Now it takes more time to extract the WAV off the CD (rip) than it does to convert. With the new PC, I should have the entire collection ripped and converted to FLAC by the end of the year :-)

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