About a month ago I started digitizing my DVD collection using my laptop (2 year old Dell E-6510, quad core i5) saving to ISO & then to MP4. I did maybe 1 movie/day. Recently my laptop started acting wonky & I took it for repair thinking some addware was causing me trouble. Low and behold, the FOUR CORES of the cpu failed testing! The cpu is fried to bits!
I have to decide to repair or replace, but the key question is: Is DVD ripping in a laptop w/this amount of processing power a bad thing? Was I pushing it or did I just get unlucky with the processor? Should I stick to video processing in a desktop?
Just last week, I purchased a used HTPC from e-bay, but the CPU in that system is quite old & modest (pentium G620 dual core). For an HTPC w/basic needs should work, but it would be very slow for digitizing my DVD library.
Your advice is appreciated!
About a month ago I started digitizing my DVD collection using my laptop (2 year old Dell E-6510, quad core i5) saving to ISO & then to MP4. I did maybe 1 movie/day. Recently my laptop started acting wonky & I took it for repair thinking some addware was causing me trouble. Low and behold, the FOUR CORES of the cpu failed testing! The cpu is fried to bits!
I have to decide to repair or replace, but the key question is: Is DVD ripping in a laptop w/this amount of processing power a bad thing? Was I pushing it or did I just get unlucky with the processor? Should I stick to video processing in a desktop?
Just last week, I purchased a used HTPC from e-bay, but the CPU in that system is quite old & modest (pentium G620 dual core). For an HTPC w/basic needs should work, but it would be very slow for digitizing my DVD library.
Your advice is appreciated!