Intel Core i7 4960X EE CPU / Asus X79-Deluxe Motherboard Review

1. Introduction2. Meet Ivy Bridge-E: The Core i7 4960X EE CPU3. X79 Meets 2013: Asus X79-Deluxe Motherboard4. Asus X79-Deluxe: BIOS5. Overclocking: Processor Frequencies6. Overclocking: Memory Frequency7. Testing Methodology8. System: PCMark 89. System: 3DMark 1110. System: 3DMark11. System: 3DMark Vantage12. System: Unigine Heaven Benchmark13. Processor: SiSoft Sandra14. Processor: Cinebench R11.5 64 bit15. Processor: Super Pi16. Processor: Hyper Pi17. Processor: WinRar18. Processor: MKV HD Performance19. Processor: Media Encoding - MediaEspresso20. Processor: Media Encoding - HandBrake21. Gaming: Battlefield 322. Gaming: Sleeping Dogs23. Gaming: Metro 203324. Motherboard: SATA Performance25. Motherboard: USB 3.0 Performance26. Comparison: Overclocked Performance Results27. Comparison: Clock-per-Clock Comparison28. Technical: Power Consumption29. Technical: Temperatures30. Closing Thoughts31. View All Pages

CyberLink MediaEspresso 6 is the successor to CyberLink MediaShow Espresso 5.5. With its further optimized CPU/GPU-acceleration, MediaEspresso is an even faster way to convert not only your video but also your music and image files between a wide range of popular formats.

Now you can easily playback and display your favourite movies, songs and photos not just on your mobile phone, iPad, PSP, Xbox, or Youtube and Facebook channels but also on the newly launched iPhone 4. Compile, convert and enjoy images and songs on any of your computing devices and enhance your videos with CyberLink’s built-in TrueTheater Technology.

New and Improved Features

• Ultra Fast Media Conversion – With support from the Intel Core i-Series processor family, ATI Stream & NVIDIA CUDA, MediaEspresso’s Batch-Conversion function enables multiple files to be transcoded simultaneously.
• Smart Detect Technology – MediaEspresso 6 automatically detects the type of portable device connected to the PC and selects the best multimedia profile to begin the conversion without the need for user’s intervention.
• Direct Sync to Portable Devices – Video, audio and image files can be transferred in a few easy steps to mobile phones including those from Acer, BlackBerry, HTC, Samsung, LG, Nokia, Motorola, Sony Ericsson, and Palm, as well as Sony Walkman and PSP devices.
• Enhanced Video Quality – CyberLink TrueTheater Denoise and Lighting enables the enhancement of video quality through optical noise filters and automatic brightness adjustment.
• Video, Music and Image File Conversion – Convert not only videos to popular formats such as AVI, MPEG, MKV, H.264/AVC, and FLV at the click of a button, but also images such as JPEG and PNG and music files like WMA, MP3 and M4A.
• Online Sharing – Conversion to video formats used by popular social networking websites and a direct upload feature means posting videos to Facebook and YouTube has never been easier.

For our testing today we are converting a 4.4GB 720p MKV file (1h:58mins) to Apple Mp4 format for playback on a portable device. This is a common procedure for many people and will give a good indication of system power.

Hardware acceleration is disabled to provide an accurate interpretation of the CPU performance.

Media Espresso isn't very well optimised for hyper-threaded parts, nor does its default setting demand a high CPU utilisation percentage. The 4960X outperforms the other hexacore processor by 11%, but Haswell's 4770K manages second place with a result that is 6% behind that of the IVB-E chip's.

Despite its eight physical cores and high clock speed, the AMD FX-8350 cannot compete with Intel's parts.

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