How good is a DP G5 at shifting load?

[Gohan]

By that I mean on my Xeon I can encode a movie and play a game at the same time without dropping frames on the encode, as each will use a separate processor.

Is Tiger smart enough to do the same? Could I play say Warcraft III & rip a DVD at the same time without dropping frames?

This is on a DP 2.0 G5 with 2gig of RAM btw.

 

[Chaszmyr]

Whether or not they use entirely separate processors really depends on whether or not the tasks are multithread. Two separate processes using two separate processors is actually a less advanced form of multiprocessing (which is as much a software issue as a hardware issue). You should be able to do it just as well on a G5 as on a Xeon.

 

[Gohan]

Cheers, I’ll give it a go, just thought I’d ask first as I wanted to try encoding a full DVD to H264, which I know is going to take hours so it would have been nice to be able to use the comp at the same time without worrying about dropped frames.