Current Computer First New Computer Second New Computer
Processor Pentium III Core 2 Quard - Q6600 Core 2 Quard - Q9450
Speed 1 GHz 2.4 GHz 2.66 GHz
Cache 256 K 8 MB 12 MB
Cores 1 4 4
FSB 133 MHz 1066 MHz 1333 MHz
RAM 768 MB SDRAM 3.25 GB DDR2 4 GB DDR2
Graphics Card ATI All-in-wonder 8500 DV ATI Radeon 2600HD-XT ATI Radeon 2600HD-XT
Graphics Memory 256 MB DDR 512 MB GDDR3 512 MB GDDR3
Operating System Windows XP Pro - 32bit Windows XP Pro - 32bit Windows XP Pro - 64bit
DVD (MPEG-2) 6Mbps VBR 4-pass 3:07:24 = 11244 secs = 8.00 fps 0:07:17 = 437 secs = 205.95 fps 0:05:36 = 336 secs = 267.86 fps
H.264 Main Profile 1-pass VBR 3:21:36 = 12096 secs = 1.86 fps 0:13:31 = 811 secs = 27.74 fps 0:11:11 = 671 secs = 33.53 fps
Password Decryption No data Need to take 20,649 p/s

Video source is 12:30 mins (22,500 frames) long DV. Harddrive specs are not neccessory because the IDE drive with 2MB cache and SATA-II NCQ drive with 32MB cache does not procude that much of a differance. Graphics card are not used during video conversion so those do not affect the performance.