Media Benchmarks

Download from: bit-tech.net
We have developed our own suite of benchmarks using real-world and open source applications to simulate how PCs are actually used. The suite comprises an image editing test using Gimp, a video encoding test using Handbrake and a multi-tasking test using 7-Zip to archive and encrypt a large batch of files while a HD movie plays in mplayer.

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 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.

GIMP Image Editing

Website: GNU Image Manipulation Program (GIMP)
Far from being some kind of pr0n-filtering tool, Gimp is an open source image editing application - Gimp is an acronym of GNU Image Manipulation Program. Our test simulates how well a PC can manipulate a collection of large digital photos, and to achieve a low time requires a PC with a powerful CPU, plenty of quick memory and efficient hard disk drive access.

GIMP Image Editing

Media Benchmarks

  • Asus Rampage III Gene
  • Gigabyte GA-X58A-UD3R (rev. 2)
  • Gigabyte GA-X58A-UD7
  • Asus P6X58D Premium
  • Asus P6X58D-E
  • Asus Rampage III Extreme
  • Asus P6TD Deluxe
  • EVGA X58 SLI Micro
    • 1509
    • 1893
    • 1507
    • 1873
    • 1495
    • 1898
    • 1483
    • 1866
    • 1481
    • 1895
    • 1467
    • 1875
    • 1438
    • 1873
    • 1418
    • 1502
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500
1000
1500
2000
Score (points), higher is better.
  • Stock
  • Overclocked

Handbrake H.264 Encoding

Website: HandBrake
We use the open-source, GPL-licensed, multi-platform, multi-threaded video encoder Handbrake to encode a HD video using the H.264 codec. This primarily tests multi-threaded CPU and memory subsystem performance.

Handbrake H.264 Video Encoding

Media Benchmarks

  • Gigabyte GA-X58A-UD3R (rev. 2)
  • Asus P6X58D Premium
  • Gigabyte GA-X58A-UD7
  • Asus Rampage III Extreme
  • Asus P6X58D-E
  • Asus Rampage III Gene
  • Asus P6TD Deluxe
  • EVGA X58 SLI Micro
    • 3335
    • 4131
    • 3303
    • 4126
    • 3297
    • 4145
    • 3296
    • 4145
    • 3296
    • 4152
    • 3292
    • 4173
    • 3284
    • 4140
    • 3132
    • 3280
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1000
2000
3000
4000
Score (points), higher is better.
  • Stock
  • Overclocked

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Discuss this in the forums

Posted by SlowMotionSuicide - Fri Aug 20 2010 09:26

Black = Win.

Posted by wyx087 - Fri Aug 20 2010 11:50

is it me or first page clicky images are all thumbnails?

ninja edit: and last page.

Posted by <A88> - Fri Aug 20 2010 13:15

Guess that's the motherboard part of my build decided then :)

Posted by Otacon - Fri Aug 20 2010 13:16

Yeah the images have been left pointing as the -s.jpg files. If you change it to -l.jpg you get the larger images.

Good article though. Personally im glad to see IDE removed. It is time it just left our boards completly.
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