Gateway 7426gx Athlon 64 NOTEBOOK COMPUTER

[Jerry Jones]

I just bought a Gateway 7426gx AMD Athlon 64 3700+ NOTEBOOK COMPUTER.

http://www.gateway.com/home/products/ret/ret_7426gx.shtml

OK... a 64-bit processor.

This should be able to handle the 720p HDV streams from my JVC JY-HD10.

I'll run Mark Dileo's Ulead MediaStudio Pro benchmark test.

Should be interesting.

Jerry Jones

http://www.jonesgroup.net

[Dr Mordrid]

MSP8 would be a neater test

Dr. Mordrid

[Jerry Jones]

Music to my ears, Doc!

Put that beta to the test... beat up on it... kill those bugs.

I'm anxious to try it.

Jerry Jones

http://www.jonesgroup.net

[Dr Mordrid]

Hammering away as we speak

Dr. Mordrid

[landrover]

Hey, Doc!

Wasn't "speculation" about 64 bit support in MSP8 part of the NDA?

[jeff b]

What is "Mark Dileo's Ulead MediaStudio Pro benchmark test"?

Jeff B

[Dr Mordrid]

An improvemet of my old MSPro vs. Premiere rendering speed test.

http://www.hyperactivemusic.com/MSProFiles/MSP7Page/mspro7testresults.htm

Dr. Mordrid

[jeff b]

Tnx, Doc.

Jeff B

[Jerry Jones]

1. Time for .AVI creation

7:58

2. Time for MPEG-2 encode

8:33

3. All clips played in real time!

4. Processor type and speed

AMD Mobile Athlon 64 3700+ @ 2.4GHz

5. Memory type

DDR SDRAM (1gb) 333MHz

6. Chipset

VIA K8T800 HyperTransport

7. Version

Latest version of Ulead MediaStudio Pro 7 (all patches applied)

These results are pretty good; they appear to rank third behind the two guys who posted faster times with overclocked Pentium 4 2.6GHz chips:

http://www.hyperactivemusic.com/MSProFiles/MSP7Page/mspro7testresults.htm

I've done some testing with HDV clips from my JY-HD10.

The Athlon 64 seems beefy enough to play the HDV streams without stutters, but I wish I had an HD monitor.

Anyway - I thought you might be interested in these results.

By the way, the system board in this laptop computer is a VIA chipset board.

The Firewire controller is also a VIA-chipped controller.

They both seem to work just fine.

Cheers,

Jerry Jones

http://www.jonesgroup.net

[Jerry Jones]

By the way, my tests were performed with Norton Anti-virus "on."

I wonder if that program slows down the performance.

?

Jerry Jones

http://www.jonesgroup.net

[Jerry Jones]

Ran the DV creation test again with Norton turned "off."

That only cut the time down to 7:54.

Jerry Jones

http://www.jonesgroup.net