MP3 Encoding, WMEx64 and WinRAR Tests

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.

Intel V8 Media Creation System Review - Eight Cores of Power! - Processors 43

Intel V8 Media Creation System Review - Eight Cores of Power! - Processors 44

Windows Media Encoder 9 x64

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. 

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Intel V8 Media Creation System Review - Eight Cores of Power! - Processors 46

WinRAR 3.70 Beta 8

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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Popular applications like LAME and other MP3 encoders are barely using two cores now so the move to eight of them doesn’t help our multi-threaded LAME benchmark at all.  The Windows Media Encoder application does see a small gain in performance though of about 10% over the quad core system.  WinRAR sees a dramatic slowdown in our tests though as this benchmark is very much a memory-dependent test.

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