4 cores v's 8

[emilianomorgia]

4 cores or 8, which is better for cat? Any thoughts appreciated.

quality/prices , 4 core , I'll spend more money on HD's ( IMO )

The MTRON SATA 32GB SSD -

http://www.dvnation.com/nand-flash-ssd.html

can do 11 dv movies at 25 fps with random access playback mode on every layer - not just play loop fwd

max 3147 can only do half this-

Machine tested is 8 core intel 3.0GHz.
Do 8 cores make any difference- NO- 4 reducing 8 core machine to only use 4 CPU's does not change performance.

dv codec is the fastest - performance characteristics are different with photojpeg - photojpeg is cpu limited - not disc.
Richard

Does changing the number of cpu's then affect performance of photo-jpeg?

i dont think so.
tests i did with a quad g5 and an 8 core intel using a ram disk ( not ssd ) showed very similar jpeg performance.