Media Encoding Performance

Intel also had a DivX 6.1 and an iTunes 6.0.1.3 test loaded on the machine for our use. The scores speak for themselves, Conroe showed just under a 30% performance advantage in DivX encoding and 11% in MP3 encoding. Updated: Windows Media Encoder 9 with Advanced Profile, the same test that we use in our CPU reviews, is showing Conroe with a 12% advantage over the 2.8GHz AMD system.

Windows Media Encoder 9 with Advanced Profile

DivX 6.1 - Unconstrained/Balanced Codec Settings

iTunes 6.0.1.3

F.E.A.R. Performance Final Words
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  • raskren - Wednesday, March 8, 2006 - link

    The AMDroid are really reaching now...
  • Sh0ckwave - Tuesday, March 7, 2006 - link

    You have no idea what your talking about. I have just checked two Nforce 4 Athlon 64 systems, and guess what, they all have "AwardBIOS v6.00PG" The BIOS version is at the bottom of the POST page, not at the top - its not in that screenshot. So you dont know what bios version it was running.
  • gersson - Tuesday, March 7, 2006 - link

    Holy Crap -- why??? Muslim extremist??? O_o
  • 5150Joker - Tuesday, March 7, 2006 - link

    I won't support their chips because they use strong arm tactics to keep out the competition and secondly because their R&D facility is in Israel and I refuse to support anything that comes out of that place.
  • ATC - Wednesday, March 8, 2006 - link

    Actually, Intel has plans for a large facility to open in the Gaza strip to help out the Palestinians. It is a very nobel move by Intel. Good on them.
  • JumpingJack - Wednesday, March 8, 2006 - link

    And I agree with the agree'ers :) .... this was not only inappropriate, but majorly inaccurate. Intel has R&D in several locations, the design originated in Israel, but the chips on display were developed/manufactured and produced at Intel's largest (main) R&D site in Oregon.
  • JackPack - Wednesday, March 8, 2006 - link

    You can tell from the codename which is designed where.

    Only Conroe was designed State side. The Core architecture, and Merom is clearly Israeli.
  • JackPack - Wednesday, March 8, 2006 - link

    Forgot to add: 5150Joker's comment is despicable.
  • dali71 - Tuesday, March 7, 2006 - link

    Take your anti-semitic rant somewhere else, jackass. Aren't you late for your Klan rally?
  • Sunrise089 - Tuesday, March 7, 2006 - link

    I agree with dali71, and it's wonderful to see 5150Joker someone using such neutral and kind language as "that place". Of course I'm sure each and every Intel employee in Israel is personally responsible for all of the region's problems, and are not simply men and women trying to do the best they can earning a living in a dangerous situation, right 5150Joker?

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