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.
-
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
0
250
500
750
1000
1250
1500
1750
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.
-
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
Points, Higher is Better
Read our
performance analysis.
Want to comment? Please log in.