[ale] need input on wobbling decision making on the PC

[savithari at gmail.com (Narahari 'n' Savitha)]

Friends:

I am trying to  a PC for transcoding purposes and dont want to spend a lot
if I can avoid.

I was almost ready with Microcenter for

FX 8350 CPU with eight cores ($70) PassMark of CPU is 8900
Mother board  ASUS  ($80)
Memory 16GB CAS9 ($120)
Paste is $4

All together with taxes = = 282 (no case, no disk, no vid card, key board
etc., etc.,  not that  ineed it)
I can reuse existing case.

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However I saw this for $180 all inclusive.
https://flash.newegg.com/Product/9SIA5YV4XJ8211?icid=WP_0_09102017

The PassMark for the CPU - Intel Core i5-2400 Quad Core Processor - 3.1GHz
is  5907

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So is the extra 100 dollars for the powerful CPU worth it ?

The purpose of the PC is purely for transcoding purpose the OTA channels
via HDHR.


Waiting for suggestions...


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