Media Encoding Tests
LAME 3.97a MT MP3 Encoder

This version of the LAME MP3 encoder is multi-threaded and takes advantage of two threads. 

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Intel Core i7-860 Lynnfield Processor Review - Best value in processors? - Processors 82

Results in our LAME encoder are pretty standard though the performance in the multi-threaded score is a bit slower than the i5-750.


Windows Media Encoder x64

WME is a great video encoding application that supports WMV9 HD codecs and more.

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Intel Core i7-860 Lynnfield Processor Review - Best value in processors? - Processors 84

Here the Core i7-860 finds itself nearly equidistant between the i5-750 and the i7-870 in terms of encoding speed.


VirtualDub

VirtualDub is a great application for just about any kind of video conversion but our testing we are using the DivX codec to shrink a collection of videos.

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Intel Core i7-860 Lynnfield Processor Review - Best value in processors? - Processors 86

Ditto.


Handbrake

Known mainly for its DVD re-encoding prowess, our test uses the Handbrake command line interface.

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Intel Core i7-860 Lynnfield Processor Review - Best value in processors? - Processors 88

Handbrake easily takes advantage of HyperThreading to help deliver a 37% performance gain over the Core i5-750 while only having a 5% clock speed advantage. 


7-Zip Compression

I decided to replace the WinRAR test with a more repeatable and threaded application, 7-Zip.

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Intel Core i7-860 Lynnfield Processor Review - Best value in processors? - Processors 90

Obviously the big boost here again comes from 7-Zip’s ability to use more than 4 threads for processing thus leaving the Core i5-750 well behind at that setting. 

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