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Benchmark Results: Media Encoding Applications

As expected, there’s not much to see here. With virtually identical processors and overclocks, there is very little setting one system apart from the other when it comes to applications that don't take advantage of graphics power.

iTunes and Lame, specifically, are single-threaded. HandBrake and MainConcept are able to exploit this chip's multiple cores.

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Don Woligroski was a former senior hardware editor for Tom's Hardware. He has covered a wide range of PC hardware topics, including CPUs, GPUs, system building, and emerging technologies.