Transcoding is well within your reach, even on older hardware ...

In a world increasingly concerned with sustainability, the energy demands of digital infrastructure are coming under scrutiny—especially in streaming, where encoding and decoding dominate processing ...

I know my brand new 4600+ x2 is a great lil CPU and all, but not <i>that</i> great -- View image here: http://episteme.arstechnica.com/groupee_common/emoticons/icon ...

I'm looking for a socket 939 CPU for the purpose of ripping and encoding MP3s as fast as possible. my question is what stats are the most important for this purpose (straight single core CPU speed, ...