The End User Pays: 13 Boards With Intel 845GE/PE

MP3 Audio Encoding: Lame MP3

The Lame MP3 Encoder under Windows XP was used to convert a 178 MB sound file from a WAV format to an "MPEG-1 Layer 3" format. As shown in the chart, there are only marginal differences between the candidates as the performance depends primarily on the CPU.

In this test, Asus, Aopen and Gigabyte produced the highest frame rates.