System Builder Marathon, Sept. '09: $2,500 Performance PC

Benchmark Results: A/V Encoding

Apple iTunes takes just over two minutes to encode an entire DVD soundtrack on our $2,500 machine, but overclocking speeds it up by 21%.

Lame MP3 shows a similar scale with a 22% performance difference between stock and overclocked settings.

TMPGEnc drops the overclocking advantage to 19%.

MainConcept gets a 21% performance boost from our system’s 22% overclock.