SBM 4: Overclocking The Competitors

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Mid-Range Overclocking - Audio

In the audio encoding applications, we see a much higher boost than the game benchmarks offered, about a 30% performance increase

Mid-Range Overclocking - Video

The video encoding applications show a different performance increase: 20% for DivX and 25% for Xvid. We suspect that this has something to do with DivX quad core optimizations; perhaps it's running so efficiently that the overclock isn't making the same impact.

Mid-Range Overclocking - Applications

3dsMAX shows a nice 31% performance increase.

Don Woligroski
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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.