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11:55 AM - March 26, 2008 by
Thomas Soderstrom
Source: Tom's Hardware US – Keywords: system, builder, marathon
Topics: Overclocking
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Source: Tom's Hardware US – Keywords: system, builder, marathon
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Audio

Audio encoding puts so little stress on today's systems that we need to encode an entire movie sound track simply to get a meaningful benchmark time. Apple's iTunes program encoded the track in only a minute and a half on our high-end configuration.

Lame converted the entire movie soundtrack to MP3 in only two minutes, 19 seconds.
Video

TMPG converted five minutes of MPEG video to the high-compression Divx format in just over half the time. Xvid 1.1.2, on the other hand, is rather old, and isn't likely optimized for multi-core processing.

CloneDVD shrunk an entire movie from DVD9 to DVD4.7 format in only seven minutes.
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TDL
05/17/2008
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Thanks for the great article - I'm having fun building this - I do have 3 questions though - the fan duct assembly fan has 3 wire sets, 1 has the 3wire motherboard connector, the second taps into a regular power lead. The third is a single wire - the case documentation does not describe that one - what is that little single lead for? Also the motherboard sound card has some connectors on it - I assume one is for the case headphone/mic lead? Third, should teflon tape be used in the dual radiator threads if not how tight is tight enough for the O-rings? Thanks great article!
Dax3000
06/25/2008
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Hi Thanks For The Great Article - I Am Also Building A System With A Few Modifications I Loved Asus Boards But Can Never Seem To Overclock Them At All So I Am Going With A EVGA 780i FTW when they come out, THat Processor IS Sweet But No Way CAn I JUstify PAying $1060 or more here in canada for 1 Pc Component when i already own three computers, I was thinking maybe a Q6850 when they come out, i have changed the middle fan in my case already and i am just waiting on my 120 rad to get here as i already have the other parts from another computer i built that i couldn't use so that saved me a few dollars
and i can't find that power supply anywhere so i am gonna do with a X3 1000 watt from ultra i hope it's good enough. and since i am not a really good overclocker no point in risking a high end system by messing around with 2 expensive graphics cards will 2 9800GTX+ work for me ? and omost importantly after my system is finished and filled how do i top it up if it needs more water do i have to take the top rad down to fill it everytime or can i just add water in to the same rad. thanks alot of your help and keep up the great work.