Data Compression and Audio Encoding

WinRAR 3.51

Our own custom WinRAR benchmark, this test takes a large 650 MB text file and compresses it with the highest compression option. 

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ECS KA3 MVP and MSI K9A Platinum: XPress 3200 Chipset - Motherboards 185

WinZIP 8.1

This test does basically the same thing in the World Bench suite but with WinZIP instead.

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LAME MT MP3 Encoding

This custom test uses the LAME MT engine to benchmark encoding a 650 MB WAV file into a standard 128 kbps MP3 file.  We used the Microsoft compiler for the most fair results.

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ECS KA3 MVP and MSI K9A Platinum: XPress 3200 Chipset - Motherboards 188

MusicMatch Jukebox 7.10

This World Bench test also encodes ripped WAV files into MP3 using the popular MusicMatch software.

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Here we see that all of the results in our data and audio compression tests are all in agreement with each other and no product has an advantage over any other.

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