Tom's Hardware Speed Project: Pentium 4, Over 3 GHz!

By Frank Völkel
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MP3 Audio Encoding: Lame MP3

With the Lame MP3 Encoder, a 178 MB sound file in WAV format is converted to MPEG-1 Layer 3 format under Windows XP. The chart clearly shows that the extremely overclocked Pentium 4/3000 has a 43-second lead on the Pentium4/2200 series.

Video-Encoding MPEG-4: Flask Mpeg And Divx

Frank Völkel
3 Comments Comment from the forums
  • godbrother
    After 7 years... Woot Woot!
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  • godbrother
    Wow, I can't belive this was written in 2002, still no replies :D C'mon fellas. It's closing in on 8 years.
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  • youssef 2010
    and now we have 6-core i7-980X that can be overclocked using the stock cooler.And the intel atom can beat the 2200MHz chip in the benchmark(the dual-core atom, of course).But these days were good.I was still pretty much an ignorant in the computer field.
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