Intel i7 3960X EE / Asus P9X79 Deluxe / 32GB Corsair Vengeance (1600mhz) Review

1. Introduction2. Intel i7 3960x Extreme Edition3. Intel Active Thermal Solution (RTS2011LC)4. Intel i7 3960x & RTS2011LC (Super High Res Gallery)5. Corsair 32GB Vengeance (1600mhz) DDR36. Corsair 32GB Vengeance (Super High Res Gallery)7. Intel DX79SL Extreme Series Motherboard8. Intel DX79SL Extreme Series (Super High Res Gallery)9. Asus P9X79 Deluxe Motherboard10. Asus P9X79 Deluxe (Super High Res Gallery)11. Testing Methodology12. Synthetic: PCMark 713. Synthetic: 3DMark Vantage14. Synthetic: 3DMark 1115. Synthetic: SiSoft Sandra16. Synthetic: Cinebench R11.5 64 bit17. Synthetic: SSD Performance18. Image Quality: HQV Benchmark19. Real World: 3D Rendering20. Real World: Media Encoding21. Technical: Bios & Overclocking22. Overclocking Results: Cinebench23. Overclocking Results: SiSoft Sandra24. Overclocking Results: Media Encoding25. Overclocking Results: PCMark 726. Overclocking Results: 3DMark 1127. Overclocking Results: Gaming Performance28. Technical: Power Consumption29. Closing Thoughts30. 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.

Graphics acceleration is disabled to measure pure processor performance.

As noted earlier in the review, this particular benchmark doesn't stress all cores to 100%, however core efficiency and clock speed do matter. The Core i7 2700k @ 5ghz, manages to outperform the Core i7 3960X EE @ 3.3ghz, but when we overclock the 3960X EE to 4.8ghz it is over one minute faster than the overclocked 2700k.

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