Multi-tasking with 7-Zip and mplayer

Websites: 7zip and MPlayer HQ

Multi-tasking is a phrase with which we're all familiar, as most of us are now used to running multiple applications at the same time. However, to run multiple applications well you need a powerful (ideally multi-core) CPU and plenty of RAM.

Our multi-tasking test performs a massive file backup (with encryption) using 7-Zip, while simultaneously playing back an HD movie file using mplayer, making it a demanding test for any PC.

Multi-tasking Test

mPlayer and 7-Zip

  • 1,333MHz CL9
  • 1,333MHz CL8
  • 1,333MHz CL7
  • 1,600MHz CL9
  • 1,600MHz CL8
  • 1,600MHz CL7
  • 1,866MHz CL9
  • 1,866MHz CL8
  • 1,866MHz CL7
  • 2,133MHz CL9
  • 2,133MHz CL8
    • 1449
    • 1441
    • 1503
    • 1511
    • 1546
    • 1601
    • 1596
    • 1616
    • 1695
    • 1629
    • 1655
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  • Points, Higher is Better

Overall Score


The overall score is an unweighted mean average of the scores of the three individual tests. A score of 1,000 means that the test system is as fast as our reference PC, which used a 2.66GHz Intel Core 2 Duo E6750 at stock speed, 2GB of Corsair 1,066MHz DDR2 memory, a 250GB Samsung SpinPoint P120S hard disk and an Asus P5K Deluxe WiFi-AP motherboard. The scoring system is linear, so a system scoring 1,200 points is 20 per cent faster than our reference system. Equally, a system scoring 1,200 is 4 per cent faster than a system scoring 1,150.

Overall Score

Gimp, Handbrake, mplayer, 7-Zip

  • 1,333MHz CL9
  • 1,333MHz CL8
  • 1,333MHz CL7
  • 1,600MHz CL9
  • 1,600MHz CL8
  • 1,600MHz CL7
  • 1,866MHz CL9
  • 1,866MHz CL8
  • 1,866MHz CL7
  • 2,133MHz CL9
  • 2,133MHz CL8
    • 1752
    • 1766
    • 1766
    • 1772
    • 1786
    • 1807
    • 1797
    • 1822
    • 1839
    • 1828
    • 1849
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Points, Higher is Better
  • Points, Higher is Better

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