ASUS PC-DL Deluxe (Xeon3.2G/L3-1MB)

Pentium	/	Penitum	/	Xeon
PC2006(Xeon3.73Gx2/L2-2MBx2)	/	Benchmarking	/	Video File Study
GA-8KNXP(P4-3.4C+)	/	P4C800 Deluxe(P4-3.2C+)	/	PC-DL(Xeon3.2G-1MB)
P4C800-E Deluxe(P4-3.2C)	/	IC7(P4-2.4B)	/	P4C800 Deluxe(P4-2.53G)
P4P800 Deluxe(P4-3.0C+)	/	8IG1000MK(P4-2.8C+)	/	D865GLCL(P4-2.8C)
D865GLCL(C-2.6G PC3200)	/	D865GLCL(C-2.6G)	/	GA-8IG1000 Pro(P4-2.8C)
GA-8IG1000 Pro(P4-2.4C)	/	P4S800D-E Deluxe(P4-2.8C)	/	D845EBT(P4-2.53G)
P4BGL-MX(C-2.2G+)	/	D845GBV(C-1.7G)	/

ASUS PC-DL Deluxe (Xeon3.2G/L3-1MB)

This is my 2003 dream project which will be able to achieve my target, "1hr DV moving picture should be burnt to DVD in 1hr without any hardware encoding."
I've done P4-3.2C+, actually reached at 3.688GHz, however I cannot achieve my target. Almost there, but not exactly there.
In addition, in recent, I changed my primary Video Camera from DV to MicroMV with some reasons... it's domestic matter... 3CCD DV camera is too big and heavy. (I don't think so.) Anyway, anyhow I bought it. Then the rendering is extended from DV's, it's around 1.5hrs, only for rendering.
Maybe, because of the file format. It's not AVI based file format(like DV), it's MPEG with CBR12Mbps, field order B and 48KHz sampling 256kbps sound.
Thus, I decided to design next "performance" PC which should achieve my target, however I hesitate to do it little because of it's so expensive project.
Finally, I decided to purchase some cheaper parts first, and wait for the expensive parts by getting reasonable price.
If this project was done and I could achieve the target, then I will stop making my own PC.

[After built]
First impression, this PC2003 is excellent, but it's not surprising fast.
However, I checked everything and then I realized it's extremely fast to compared with normal P4 machine.
Dual water cooling system is excellent too, it can be used beside dining and family.
It's not quiet, but acceptable noise.
About the result to burn DVD...
I cannot achieve my target at this time, rendering took 71min 11sec and it took 85min 08sec by DVD burn completion.
Actually, MicroMV format is too hard for me... I cannot recommend you to use this type of video camera and/or format(MPEG-2 TS; Transport Stream) right now.
Near future, I believe someone will release a good software to solve and achieve my target. I've heard that MPEG-2 TS can be transcoded to MPEG-2 PS without rerendering.
I hope I will find a good software soon.

[Spec]
Dual Xeon 3.2GHz 1MB cashe & dual water cooling, 2GB DDR, 8xDVD+/-R, 180GXP120MB-8MB RAID0, all fans are Panaflow, 80mm for HDs, case back outlet, and side panel inlets, and 92mm for case top outlet with self-modified all aluminum case and fan controller & temp monitor.

At the beginning, I planned to use air cooling. However, it's so noisy... So I decided this machine should adopt a water cooling system to reduce a cooling fan noise. The first candidate were innovatek and aqua computer. They are OK, but expensive. Finally, I made up my mind to choose Corsair HydroCool200EX.

Xeon 3.2GHz price was down to $699.00 at Newegg on Jun01,2004. Yes, yes, yes, that is what I was waiting for!! And, a few days later Zipzommfly changed the price from $786.00 to $699.00.
This price cut is according to Intel price change as follows, and $699.00 is reasonable price and I purchased them finally.

CPUs	Old	New	cut
Xeon 3.2GHz(1MB/533MHz)	$851.00	$690.00	19.00%
Xeon 3.06GHz(1MB/533MHz)	$690.00	$455.00	34.00%
Xeon 3.06GHz(512KB/533MHz)	$455.00	$316.00	31.00%
Xeon 2.80GHz(1MB/533MHz)	$455.00	$316.00	31.00%
Xeon 2.80GHz(512KB/533MHz)	$316.00	$256.00	19.00%
Xeon 2.66GHz(512KB/533MHz)	$256.00	$209.00	18.00%
Xeon 2.40GHz(1MB/533MHz)	$316.00	$256.00	19.00%
Xeon 2.40GHz(512KB/533MHz)	$209.00	$198.00	5.00%
Xeon 3GHz(512KB/400MHz)	$433.00	$294.00	32.00%
Xeon 2.80GHz(512KB/400MHz)	$294.00	$234.00	20.00%
Xeon 2.60GHz(512KB/400MHz)	$234.00	$198.00	15.00%
Xeon 2.40Gz(512KB/400MHz)	$198.00	$188.00	5.00%

[Reference]

Description	Price	Qty	Total
Intel Xeon 3.20GHz 1M	$699.00	2	$1,398.00
Mushkin 512MBx2 DDR PC-3500 Level II 991098	$308.00	2	$616.00
IBM (Hitachi) Deskstar 180GXP (120GB 8MB Cashe)	$93.00	2	$186.00
ATI Radeon 9600 Pro	$146.00	1	$146.00
Floppy Disk (Silver)	$11.99	1	$11.99
NEC ND-2500A	$120.00	1	$120.00
ASUS PC-DL Deluxe	$209.99	1	$209.99
Antec 550W True Power	$119.23	1	$119.23
Kingwin Aluminum KT-424-S	$94.00	1	$94.00
Coolermaster ALD-V02 Aerogate II	$41.95	1	$41.95
18" Copper Rounded Dual Device ATA-133 Cable	$7.00	1	$7.00
18" Copper Rounded Single Device ATA-133 Cable	$7.00	2	$14.00
24" Silver Rounded Single Device Floppy Cable	$15.32	1	$15.32
Corsair HydroCool200	$205.00	2	$410.00
92mm Panaflo H1A	$13.50	1	$13.50
80mm Panaflo H1A	$11.50	2	$23.00
80mm Panaflo M1A	$11.50	3	$34.50
Thermaltake Ducting Mod	$9.99	1	$9.99
Windows XP Professional Retail	$199.95	1	$199.95
	3.2G-1M		$3,670.42

[Benchmarking]
As a reference, I put P4-3.4C overclocked 3.809GHz data on the right.
Amazingly, Dhrystone ALU & Whetstone FPU were 80%up, and Whetstone iSSE2 was 60%up.
As a special note, you should be careful for HyperThreading. Windows MovieMaker & Media Encoder are better performance with HT off.
For Media Encoder, it was shrunk drastically to 1074 sec from 1401 sec on P4-3.4C 3.809GHz. (-23%) And the difference for HT-ON/OFF was 32%, 1571 sec VS 1074 sec.
For MovieMaker2, 1401 sec on P4-3.4C 3.809GHz was shrunk drastically. (-24%)

The other hand, Ulead VideoStudio, DVD factory and Adobe Premiere Pro were better with HT-ON. Those were 27.7%up, 18.5%up and 22.8%up.
To look at the result of benchmarking software, All of HT-OFF data was worse than HT-ON data. So I think it's related with an application software.
But I don't make any sense why Microsoft's is not correspondence to HT...

	3.459GHz HT-ON	3.459GHz HT-OFF	3.206GHz HT-ON	P4-3.4C 3.809GHz
Dhrystone ALU (MIPS)	21166	18316	19148	11772
Whetstone FPU (MFLOPS)	5940	3987	5543	3296
Whetstone iSSE2 (MFLOPS)	11839	9016	12271	7377
RAM BW Int (MB/s)	3515	3503	3194	4860
RAM BW Float (MB/s)	3503	3478	3193	4901
File System (kB/s)	53743	52526	54206	70028
Buffered Read (MB/s)	1729	1905	1569	109
Sequential Read (MB/s)	88	86	88	107
Random Read (MB/s)	4	3769	4	10
Buffered Write (MB/s)	1699	1838	1498	94
Sequential Write (MB/s)	65	66	68	101
Random Write (MB/s)	14	13	14	18
Average Access Time (ms)	13	16	13	6

ALL	84843	81376	77257	72377
CPU Integer	214318	158846	198386	117991
CPU Float	266045	261532	246583	145567
Memory Read	255589	256767	228198	279449
Memory Write	102707	107366	91289	72293
Memory ReadWrite	205311	213298	183807	144895
File Read	82914	77050	69707	96331
File Write	69659	70426	64200	105567
File RandomRead	22826	24444	21838	20221
File RandomWrite	33761	34304	33431	21553

MovieMaker2 (AVI->WMV 2.1Mbps)	246	238	273	314
MediaEncorder (AVI->WMV 2Pass VBR-2Mbps)	1571	1074	1560	1401
Ulead VideoStudio7 (AVI->VOB)	246	340	254	300
Ulead DVD Factory2 LE (AVI->VOB)	331	406	DNQ	DNQ
Pinnacle Studio9 (MPG->AVI)	296	295	DNQ	DNQ
Adobe Premiere Pro (MPG->AVI)	105	136	DNQ	DNQ

Xeon 3.2GHz Normal
Xeon 3.2GHz 3.459GHz HT-OFF
Xeon 3.2GHz 3.459GHz HT-OFF