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

[DJPfulio at jdpfu.com (DJ-Pfulio)]

It depends.

On 09/14/2017 12:11 PM, Narahari 'n' Savitha wrote:
> 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
> 
> ----------------------------
> 
> 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.