Application: DivX and MP3 Encoding, WinRAR and PCMark04

XMPEG 5.03 and DivX 5.1.1


NVIDIA nForce4 Ultra and SLI Preview - Chipsets 51

Both AMD chipsets perform similarly again, but the Intel processor with this benchmark’s support for multi-processing is a good combination.

LAME MP3


NVIDIA nForce4 Ultra and SLI Preview - Chipsets 52

MP3 encoding is obviously not affected by the change in graphics bus, so the results remain unchanged. 

WinRAR


NVIDIA nForce4 Ultra and SLI Preview - Chipsets 53

The NF4 chipset shaves just a couple of seconds off the compression time on our WinRAR test.

PCMark04


NVIDIA nForce4 Ultra and SLI Preview - Chipsets 54

Most noteable here is the increase in the HDD score on the NF4 chipset, though the other categories are also an improvement over the VIA K8T890 chipset as well.  We’ll wait for the system tests to see if that HDD score results in anything tangible.

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