David,
In my rendering computer, I have twin hexa-core Xeons, along with 48 GB of triple channel DDR3 (7-7-7-20) RAM. My video card is a 3GB GTX-580, which I don’t use because render using GPU always crashes, and besides with 24 hyper-threaded cores the CPU wins. My system drive is an SSD, my swap drive is an SSD, and my source is a 4TB stripped raid, my output is a 1TB single drive. All drives are SATA-III 6.0Gb/s.
Can you explain why I’m getting 22-26% processor usage when rendering with the Sony AVC codec?
I have researched over and over and rebuilt this system a few times. I don’t have a bottleneck and both CPU’s are water cooled and seldom go over 42C. I just don’t get it!
Jeff
2-Xeon X5680 @ 3.33, EVGA SR-2 Mobo, 48GB DDR3, GTX 580 3072MB, 16TB Attached Storage, Win7, Vegas 11 x64