Video rendering and overall performance slow

I just looked at your CPU and it is relatively slow for doing CPU intensive tasks like rendering.
Passmark rates it at 1500marks.
PassMark - AMD Athlon 64 X2 Dual Core 5600+ - Price performance comparison

Earlier this year I sold my friend my i7 870, mobo, and ram to replace his aging pentium 4 3.4ghz Dell.
He does transcoding with the machine converting xvid to iPod compatible mp4.
The pentium took an hour and 15 minutes to convert a 43minute show.
After I setup the i7 for him we tested it with a 1 hour and 10 minute xvid and it took 8 minutes to transcode.
He was a very happy camper.

Zepher said:

I just looked at your CPU and it is relatively slow for doing CPU intensive tasks like rendering.
Passmark rates it at 1500marks.
PassMark - AMD Athlon 64 X2 Dual Core 5600+ - Price performance comparison

Earlier this year I sold my friend my i7 870, mobo, and ram to replace his aging pentium 4 3.4ghz Dell.
He does transcoding with the machine converting xvid to iPod compatible mp4.
The pentium took an hour and 15 minutes to convert a 43minute show.
After I setup the i7 for him we tested it with a 1 hour and 10 minute xvid and it took 8 minutes to transcode.
He was a very happy camper.

I should buy an Intel i7. '-' But Idk how's that possible. The only thing that's bugging me is rendering a video at 1080p. I barely lag or notice choppines when playing games like Minecraft, Skyrim, FusionFall, etc.

The i7 was a comparison to the machine it replaced. I just showed an example.

First off what other peoples computers do or don't do doesn't matter especially a Mac. If you want to do your rendering faster you must upgrade your system to a quad core and more ram would help also. At the present time your cpu is your bottleneck.

Layback Bear said:

First off what other peoples computers do or don't do doesn't matter especially a Mac. If you want to do your rendering faster you must upgrade your system to a quad core and more ram would help also. At the present time your cpu is your bottleneck.

And my windows 7 score isn't the best. Lolol