MSI P6N SLI Platinum

Xvid Encoding:

We tested video encoding performance using VirtualDub-MPEG version 1.6.15 and a multithreaded version of the Xvid codec, along with the LAME MT MP3 encoder for encoding audio. We did a two-pass encode of a 15-minute 276MB digital TV recording with a target file size of 100MB.

Xvid encoding performance is very good as the MSI P6N SLI Platinum manages to keep up with the other boards tested.

MP3 Encoding:

We used LAME MT for our audio encoding test - it's the multithreaded version of the popular LAME MP3 encoder. We ran tests with both Intel's and Microsoft's compilers - naturally, the Intel compiler resulted in some performance increases on Intel's processors. We converted all 18 tracks from Moby's popular Play album to a 192kbps variable bit-rate MP3.



MP3 encoding is on the fractional slow end of things, but there's literally only two seconds from top to bottom. In decoding, we see the MSI actually out performs the other boards tested by a couple of seconds.