Boutique Graphics PCs Duke It Out

Audio

Lame and OGG benefit slightly from the Digital Storm Twister Extreme's slightly higher CPU clock speed, as these two programs ignore the extra cores of the faster system's Core 2 Extreme QX6850.

Video

The old version of DivX sees some gain from the added cores of the Digital Storm Twister Extreme, while XviD only reflects its higher clock speed.

Applications

3D Studio Max gains largely from the Digital Storm Twister Extreme's extra processing cores, but not by the "greater than 100%" we might have expected.