I have a pentium d 930 4ghz x 2 (I overclocked this from 3ghz) and it is extremely fast. Anyway, I need some software that will allow me to rip a cd directly to mp3 files and is dual core cpu optimized.

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I would suggest to configure EAC to start 2 concurrent compression threads in the background.
Look in the menu EAC Options/Tools
If you have HT enabled, you could even try 4 simultaneous threads, but I doubt that will increase overall performance.

EAC, or anything else that can run 2 lame copies at once. I recommend trying 4 though. IIRC LAME gets a pretty nice boost from HT, so you might as well get your money's worth on that system

u use imtoo cd ripper.you take a look it.http://www.imtoo.com/cd-ripper.html

And if you have 2 drives and need to rip serveral cd's, and not just one fast you can combine the other options with running 2 instances of EAC, each one ripping one cd.

Does this actually work, or do they conflict in the ASPI driver somehow?

It seems that I've tried it with some degree of success, but I thought I might have had to use a different aspi implementation. I actually wanted to build a (fast quad core) machine with 4 SATA optical drives for exactly this purpose, but I'm not sure if EAC is the software of choice for this application.

A 52x cd drive, ripping at say 30x will give out data around the 5MB a second mark.

Ultra DMA 4 is 66MB a second, so no problems with even 4 drives. There would be no conflicts through aspi.

Unless in Burst Mode (and even then only maybe), I doubt EAC will give two Pentium D 930 @ 4 GHz the chance to run two LAME instances at once, much less four.

I did build a machine like what I was talking about, and right now I've got three optical drives. I'm using an E6320, and ripping three CDs at once, securely appears to work excellently. I'm not sure I need another drive, but it's easy enough to implement.

It will certainly increase the fragmentation of the mp3 files on the hard drive.