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After we had run SYSmark 2002 we used Windows Media Encoder 9 to encode a 416MB AVI movie file in WMV 9 format which finishes up 4MB in size. Next we used iTunes 4.71 to encode a 22MB MP3 (128kbps) audio file to AAC format at 128kbps. Finally we opened a 47.2MB TIFF in Adobe Photoshop CS 8 and resized it and increased the resolution so it grew to 658MB in size.

Pentium Extreme Edition 840 3.2GHz with HT enabled, 800MHz FSB on Intel 955XBK with 1GB 667MHz DDR2

SYSmark 2002 - overall 361, Internet 515, Office 253

3DMark05 v1.2 - 5,729 marks

Encoding Kitesurfing AVI to WMV 9 CPU load 70% - 1 min 25 secs

iTunes MP3 to AAC conversion - 41 seconds

Photoshop conversion - 32 seconds plus 47 seconds to write the TIFF

Pentium Extreme Edition 3.2GHz with HT disabled i.e. Pentium D, 800MHz FSB on Intel 955XBK with 1GB 667MHz DDR2

SYSmark 2002 - overall 369, Internet 530, Office 257

3DMark05 v1.2 - 5,721 marks

Encoding Kitesurfing AVI to WMV 9 CPU load 80% - 1 min 44 secs

iTunes MP3 to AAC conversion - 41 seconds

Photoshop conversion - 32 seconds plus 47 seconds to write the TIFF

Dual Xeon 3.2GHz/533MHz FSB/2MB L3 cache on Asus PCH-DL with 875P chipset and 1GB PC3200 memory

SYSmark 2002 - overall 319, Internet 436, Office 232

Encoding Kitesurfing AVI to WMV 9 CPU load 70% - 1 min 24 secs

iTunes MP3 to AAC conversion - 37 seconds

Photoshop conversion - 30 seconds plus 43 seconds to write the TIFF

Pentium 4EE 3.4GHz 760 on D925XCV with 1GB 533MHz DDR2

SYSmark 2002 - overall 387, Internet 499, Office 300

Encoding Kitesurfing AVI to WMV 9 CPU load 90% - 2 mins 11 secs

iTunes MP3 to AAC conversion - 37 seconds

Photoshop conversion - 28 seconds plus 39 seconds to write the TIFF

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