Asus P8Z77-V Deluxe Review

1. Introduction2. Intel i7 3770K3. Asus P8Z77-V Deluxe4. Asus P8Z77-V Deluxe & Intel i7 3770K (Super High Res Gallery)5. Bios and Overclocking6. Testing Methodology7. Synthetic: PCMark 78. Synthetic: 3DMark Vantage9. Synthetic: 3DMark 1110. Synthetic: Unigine Heaven Benchmark11. Synthetic: HQV Benchmark 2.012. Synthetic: SiSoft Sandra 201113. Synthetic: Cinebench R11.5 64 bit14. Synthetic: SSD Performance15. Real World: 3D Rendering16. Real World: Media Encoding17. Real World: HandBrake 9.518. Gaming: F1 201119. Gaming: Total War Shogun 220. Technical: Power Consumption21. Closing Thoughts22. 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 3.3GB 720p MKV file (2h:12mins) 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. We are using the newest version which has been optimised for Sandybridge processors.

For testing today we are disabling graphics acceleration encoding.

Media Espresso does not use 100% of all the cores, so therefore the results above don't tie in accurately with some of the other software today. That said, the 3770k is clearly a media powerhouse, because at 4.6ghz it manages to outperform the reference clocked 3960X Extreme Edition, by a noticeable margin too. 7 minutes and 41 seconds is an incredible result, especially when compared against the low powered Quad core Intel Atom processors which can take 1 hour and 15 minutes to complete the same task.

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