Music Suite
The tests in the Music Suite have been selected to represent the Windows Vista Music Consumer Scenario. The combination of test sets covers the common Music usage. Music Suite gives a separate PCMark Music Score which does not affect the overall PCMark Score.

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Online music shops have changed the way we purchase music, letting us buy exactly the tracks we want, right from home. Cataloguing your music library is a breeze for fast and powerful HDDs. The most common audio file formats decrease your music’s audio quality which is undesirable. Luckily, lossless audio file formats are becoming more popular. Transcoding from non-compressed audio to a lossless format is heavily taxing on the CPU. Transcoding your audio files from one format to another is much quicker and easier using high performance CPUs.

Music Suite includes the following tests:
  • Music 1
    • Three simultaneous threads
    • Web page rendering – w/ music shop content
    • Audio transcoding: WAV -> WMA lossless
    • HDD: Adding music to Windows Media Player
  • Music 2
    • Audio transcoding: WAV -> WMA lossless
  • Music 3
    • Audio transcoding: MP3 -> WMA
  • Music 4
    • Two simultaneous threads
    • Audio transcoding: WMA -> WMA
    • HDD: Adding music to Windows Media Player

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The quad-core Intel QX6850 is back into the double-digit performance leads here with nearly 12% better performance than the dual-core options here.  And again, the X6800 is a strong second place in the results beating out the E6750 by another 14% and the best AMD CPU by 18% or so.


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