Media Benchmarks

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We have developed our own suite of benchmarks using real-world and open source applications to simulate how PCs are actually used. The suite comprises an image editing test using Gimp, a video encoding test using Handbrake and a multi-tasking test using 7-Zip to archive and encrypt a large batch of files while a HD movie plays in mplayer.

A score of 1,000 means that the test system is as fast as our reference PC, which used a 2.66GHz Intel Core 2 Duo E6750 at stock speed, 2GB of Corsair 1,066MHz DDR2 memory, a 250GB Samsung SpinPoint P120S hard disk and an Asus P5K Deluxe WiFi-AP motherboard. The scoring is linear, so a system scoring 1,200 points is 20 per cent faster than our reference system. Equally, a system scoring 1,200 is 4 per cent faster than a system scoring 1,150.

Multi-tasking Performance

Website: MPC-HC
Website: 7-Zip
Multi-tasking is a phrase that we're all familiar with, because most of us are now used to running multiple applications at the same time. However, to run multiple applications well you need a powerful (ideally multi-core) CPU and plenty of RAM.

Our multi-tasking test performs a massive file backup (with encryption) using 7-Zip, while simultaneously playing back a HD movie file using mplayer, making it a demanding test for any PC.

Multi-tasking Test

Media Benchmarks

  • Asus P6X58D Premium
  • Asus Rampage III Extreme
  • Gigabyte GA-X58A-UD3R (rev. 2)
  • Asus Rampage III Gene
  • Asus P6TD Deluxe
  • Gigabyte GA-X58A-UD7
  • Asus P6X58D-E
  • EVGA X58 SLI Micro
    • 1480
    • 1724
    • 1480
    • 1770
    • 1476
    • 1647
    • 1472
    • 1787
    • 1465
    • 1755
    • 1448
    • 1823
    • 1443
    • 1721
    • 1435
    • 1562
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Score (points), higher is better.
  • Stock
  • Overclocked

Overall

The overall score is an unweighted mean average of the scores of the three individual tests.

Overall Score

Media Benchmarks

  • Gigabyte GA-X58A-UD3R (rev. 2)
  • Asus Rampage III Gene
  • Asus P6X58D Premium
  • Asus Rampage III Extreme
  • Gigabyte GA-X58A-UD7
  • Asus P6TD Deluxe
  • Asus P6X58D-E
  • EVGA X58 SLI Micro
    • 2106
    • 2550
    • 2091
    • 2618
    • 2089
    • 2578
    • 2081
    • 2597
    • 2080
    • 2578
    • 2077
    • 2589
    • 2073
    • 2589
    • 1995
    • 2145
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Score (points), higher is better.
  • Stock
  • Overclocked

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