GIMP Image Editing

Website: GNU Image Manipulation Program (GIMP)


The poor stock memory performance has a clear effect here, slowing down the image editing by over 20 seconds compared to the competition. Overclocked, despite the extra core and memory bandwidth, the MSI NF750 only

Handbrake H.264 Encoding

Website: HandBrake


Video encoding is surprisingly fast at stock speeds, shaving a good 20 to 30 seconds off the other boards, and given the extra core the MSI board can unlock on our 720 Black Edition, it yields a very commanding advantage of about 20 per cent.

Multitasking Performance

Website: MPC-HC
Website: 7-Zip


Again, multi-tasking becomes more like image editing than video encoding though as it's slow again at stock speeds and only just matching the competition when overclocked and unlocked.