BD RB Beta released! - now at version 0.37.08 (April 23rd, 2011)

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Sorry for the late reply!

Asus will include all the cables that you need for hard disks and optical drives. Just use them without worry.

 

BD RB update!

[b[CURRENT VERSION 0.34.06 (August 2nd, 2010)[/b]

LINK http://www.jdobbs.net/freeware/BD-RBV03406.zip


Changes include:

 

@ Sophocles.

Just need to know this... can I plug any optical drive and hard drive into any SATA port on the motherboard?

I was reading the manual for the motherboard and it doesn't make it clear about exactly where I can plug one in. I dont want to make a "Boot Fail". This compuetr I am building is the first time that I have tried to build one and am quite unsure as to what would be the cause of a "boot fail" if it were to happen.

Thanks for any reply.

 

Use the included 6 GB/S cable for the hard drive and the included 3 GB/S cables for your optical drives. The slots on the board are obvious for the different speeds since you have two of the 6 GB/S slots with at least one cable, and 6 3GB/S with two or more cables. An optical drive probably doesn't make sense to move to a 6 GB/S standard since it has not hope of even coming close to saturating the 6 GB/S. In fact your 6 GB/S hard drive won't exceed 3 GB/S unless its a fast solid state disk.

 

Would having a 6Gb/s hard drive with a 6Gb/s controller cable at least speed up startup times and shutdown times? I plan to get win7 64bit.

 

That depends on the hard drive. If for instance you installed Windows on a solid state drive and then used a standard spin drive for data storage then it would be an almost guarantee. I stopped worrying about boot times a long time ago. I don't build my systems to see how fast they load, I build them to be fast when I use them. If however boot times are important to you then you could just go with a small SSD for your OS and used it to re-encode across two disks.

These are things that I have found will increase Re-encode speeds with BD RB.

1. Have a two hard drive system with one for working folder and one for source. This way you won't have one disk reading and writing at the same time which creates bottle neck.

2. A 64 bit operating system such as Windows 7. This allows you to increase RAM beyond the standard 32 bit 4 GB/3.25GB limit. On my 64 bit two channel system I have 8 GB of RAM and noted that during Rebuild about 6.8 to 7 GB of it was in use (fluctuated a bit) with a final rebuild of 3 minutes.

3. Multi-Core Processor. The more cores the better (you have it already) overclocked to the highest setting that your system will allow and remain stable.

Do all three of those things and you could cut re-encodes by a considerable amount. The actual outcome of course will depend on your build.


A small SSD such as this is more than adequate but you pay a lot for little storage.

http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16820167023

 

I really appreciate you helping me to sort things. Thanks.

 

Glad to help and if you have an extra 980X laying around let me know.

 

Would having 6 cores speed up bd rb times or can bd rb only handle up to 4 cores?

I was recently reading on the internet that it is hard to find programa that will actually use all of the cores of the processor. I currently have an intel core i7 960 and was checking a desktop gadget which comes with win 7 "CPU Meter" and noticed that bd rb will only use up to around 60 to 70% of the processor power.

(right click on the desktop and go to "gadgets")

 

Yes the BDRebuilder uses all 6 cores just fine. I'm running on the 1055T right now and I can say it runs awesome with 6 cores. I have been doing numerous configurations with different drives and cooling fans to see which combo works the best for speed. So far I have seen a 13-15% better encode on the finished result. 15% is pretty good if you are doing a few blurays every week. I will be overclocking more and seeing what times I can pull off. I will post them sometime this month.

 

What do you currently have your processor set at?

 

Do to the heat this summer, I have left it at 3ghz for right now. I had it up to 3.5ghz when I ran my tests, but this CPU will work at 4ghz. I am just waiting for the outside temps to cool down. My machines are in my garage.

 

You could invest in some better processor cooling and increase the air flow through your case.

 

I have plenty of cooling in my cases. If your computer is in a room that is usually 80-90 degrees through the day, it won't matter what cooling you have. When my systems are both running they increase the room temperature at least 10 degrees. My Zalman 9900's work perfectly fine on the CPU's. And each Antec case has (6) 120mm fans. Cooling isn't an issue when running stock clock speeds. But when I bump them up 500-1000mhz and it's 95 degrees in the room itself........need I say more !!

They run ice cold from September through May.

 

Not true. I live in Tampa Florida and my house is never cooler than 85 degrees. When I'm away I turn my air off to save money but rarely my computers, and when I return they're still reasonable cool. I'm home right now and it's already 92 outside but it's expected to reach 94 today. I'll take a couple of screeshots for you.

I usually don't run the Q9650 past 3.8 GHz but just for fun I upped it a bit to demonstrate it's temperature in an 84 degree room.

Try water cooling your North bridge, CPU, and GPU. If you have your power supply venting from the bottom and out the back, with one 120 MM fan pulling in front and two in back you'll do just fine.

Then go to frozen CPU and pick up some nice water cooling parts with a decent pump, non conductive cooling liquid, and you will find that your system will now run even in 100 degree temps.

 

I just bought a new board that will easily run the 1055T at 4ghz. The board I'm running it on right now just won't go over the 3.5 mark. It will run some programs fine at higher speeds, but when I ran PRIME95, it just restarted. I am pretty sure that the chip will run at 4ghz when I rebuild my system. The heat is probably not an issue, but I am always reluctant to run my chips over the 60c mark. I'm not sure what the absolute max temps are for CPUs, but my luck, it would burn up.

I have 2 intake fans in the front, 1 on the side, 1 on the top, and 2 on the back. I'm not a big fan of liquid cooling, but I might give it a try someday. The recent stats on the water cooling aren't much to brag about against good air cooling.

Corsair H70 at full load = 51c
Corsair H50 at full load = 56c
Hyper212 at full load = 57c
Zalman 9900 at full load =57c

Unless the liquid cooling can do better then this, I see no reason to switch over yet. A 10% increase is not good enough for me I guess. LOL

 

That could quite easily be your RAM and not your board. What RAM are you using?

Those are all closed water units with undersized tanks and radiators built for the masses. Of course because of my tank size my water system is an external system that churns more liquid than several of those closed units. If you had gone to Frozen CPU as I suggested in my last post you would've found a selection of individual parts for assembling your own water cooling system. A single system can cool your CPU, Chipset, and GPU.

Or you can purchase a manufactured unit such as the Koolance EXOS 2 (now 2.5 I believe) but they come at a premium price. The nice thing about a home made unit is only the waterblock needs to be replaced as long as the tank and pump are still working. My current unit has cooled an Opteron 170, Core 2 E6700, E8400, and now the Q9650. I can drain and replace the liquid as often as I need to. The closed units have about a two year life expectancy and then are no longer usable because they aren't refillable.

They can do a lot better.

http://www.frozencpu.com/cat/l1/g30/Liquid_Cooling.html?id=Vky4tPE4

 

Hi Sophocles, Can you help me with something? I built that dream computer stated in the signature and installed windows. The Thing is that whenever I try to run the "REG_MSCOMCTL" as administrator it wont let me. It keeps saying that it failed to load. Can you help me fix this? It says something about a missing .dll file, somehting that should be assossiated with the .dll file.

 

LOL.. I just ran the main program as "run as administrator" and it worked! LOL

 

It's time for another update to version 34.07.

CURRENT VERSION 0.34.07 (August 10th, 2010)

http://www.jdobbs.net/freeware/BD-RBV03407.zip