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AMD Phenom II X4 955 Black Edition Review
| Author | Edward Chester |
| Published | 23rd Apr 2009 |
| Manufacturer | AMD |
| Price | £189.56 (Exc VAT) |
| as reviewed | £217.99 (Inc VAT) |
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TrustedReviews NewslettersPerhaps the next most obvious task for a powerful CPU in a desktop PC is video encoding. Whether it's for editing your family videos or re-encoding your favourite videos to an iPod-friendly format, video encoding is becoming more and more common and so we've used two scenarios for testing video encoding performance.
The first is our age old test of re-encoding a portion of DVD quality MPEG-2 video into the open source Xvid format. This test is a bit long in the tooth as the version of Xvid we use is quite old so not multi-threaded (not to mention the fact that the source footage isn't even HD) but in being so it gives us a very reliable indication of single-core performance.
The next scenario takes a section of 1080p footage, again in MPEG-2 format, and re-encodes it into the h.264 format. This is a much more up to date test as the source material is Full HD and the h.264 codec is about the most advanced video format currently available. We also use the open source converter, AutoMKV, for this task, which fully supports multi-threading.
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Ed said on 23rd April 2009
basicasic said on 23rd April 2009
Talk about wanting it on a plate! Overclocking used to be a bit of a black art. Soldering resistors, joining tiny bridges with conductive paint, using the right memory and tinkerin... more
Ed said on 24th April 2009
As I explained, the system was essentially dead after some initial attempts and due to time constraints we weren't able to recover it for another run. Reading around, these wi... more
andy1001 said on 16th May 2009
I belive there is missclick - should be 6mb L3 cache instead of 2mb on page 1.
May i ask about cooling? Did you use components included in box or add your own cpu co... more
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You're right, we only did a 'verdict' on page 3. My bad. ;)