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Interesting.

This workstation is running such a chip with 1gb ram. All this workstation is really required to do is encode short duration mpegs, which it manages reasonably well. The problem comes it needs to generate 3 thumbnail images from the mpeg. It takes longer than it ought to and the cpu usage completely maxes out. What I'm not certain about is whether the cpu usage is a cause or a symptom... in other words, I'm not sure if the software generating the thumbnails is not well written and is requiring more of the cpu than it should, or whether the cpu is not up to the task of what is being asked of it. I doubt I could make a good case for the cpu being upgraded to something modern (along with new mboard to suit it, etc) for the sake of saving 2 or so minutes at a time, even if the encoding process is something being done all day every day :/