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AMD Phenom II X4 940 Black Edition Review
| Author | Edward Chester |
| Published | 8th Jan 2009 |
| Manufacturer | AMD |
| Price | £199.99 (Exc VAT) |
| as reviewed | £229.99 (Inc VAT) |
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TrustedReviews NewslettersAh, encoding MP3s. No matter how many advances there have been in audio formats and even with the proliferation of online music services, encoding our audio CDs into MP3s is still a stalwart of a computer's regular tasks. So, let's see how the Phenom II holds up.
Singe-track, single-thread encoding
It's the way it always used to be done. One track after another until the album's finished. For this test we encode 11 tracks using the LAME encoder.
Single-track, multi-threaded
A slight improvement over single threaded encoding, this method will take advantage of multiple cores for each track it is currently encoding. This test encodes the same 11 tracks and uses the multi-threaded version of LAME.
Multi-track, multi-threaded
Finally, we have the quickest method; encoding as many mp3s at once as there are cores. We used DBPowerAmp to manage the batch processing of the same 11 tracks.
Wow, now that's an improvement! The first two tests show a similar trend as all our other tests but the last one is really nice to see.
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supersizeme said on 11th January 2009
wiak said on 2nd February 2009
edward you might want to trow in a Q9400/Q9300 as a direct comparison based on price
as all the intels cpus in this review is all above $300, the i7 920 platform cost twice ... more
kois30 said on 12th March 2009
i know this is off topic but "empire total war" is still slow on this cpu even when overclocked to 3.2ghz. the load time is killing it.
Menahunie said on 25th April 2009
Ya know from reading this thread; my conclusion is this.
This is no different than the arguement over Chevy vs. Ford and who is better.
All I have seen is nothing but... more
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I agree it would be advantageous to see this processor compared with the Q6600. The decision is either plop a 6600 into the motherboard, Jump to core i7 or switch to AMD. The Q66... more