Video Encoding and Photo Editing

DivX 6.1 with XMPEG 5.03

This test uses the latest DivX codec that supports multi-threaded encoding on the XMPEG application for easy encoding setup.  Here we had a 2 GB video that we asked XMPEG to convert the first 10,000 frames to DivX.

EVGA nForce 680i LT SLI Motherboard Review - Cheaper 680i - Chipsets 74

EVGA nForce 680i LT SLI Motherboard Review - Cheaper 680i - Chipsets 75

Windows Media Encoder 9

This custom test uses the standard Windows Media Encoder to convert a 720p HD video file to a 2Mb CBR DVD-quality video in two passes. 

EVGA nForce 680i LT SLI Motherboard Review - Cheaper 680i - Chipsets 76

EVGA nForce 680i LT SLI Motherboard Review - Cheaper 680i - Chipsets 77

Again, in our video encoding tests, the motherboard isn’t really determining performance at all and the new 680i LT SLI motherboard is just as fast as the more expensive models.

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