3D Studio Max shows us a larger 16% increase in render speed. These are great render times and even an overclocked Core 2 Duo in the Phenom's price range wouldn't easily best this result.

Cinema 4d is another application that shows promising results to the system's modest overclock.

The speed increase in the Photoshop benchmark isn't as pronounced as it is in some others, but it does demonstrate a notable change.

AVG gets through with a slight 6% performance improvement.

Finally, WinRAR shows a small gain from our overclocking efforts.

Now let's examine our synthetic benchmarks and see if the results are close to the real-world applications above.