System Builder Marathon: Overclocking

Audio

Now we can see a difference, although not a very large one. iTunes shows a 10% increase in performance due to the over clocked processor.

Lame shows an even larger improvement of 14%.

Video

Video encoding demonstrates a slight performance bump similar to the one we saw in the iTunes benchmark above.

Thomas Soderstrom
Thomas Soderstrom is a Senior Staff Editor at Tom's Hardware US. He tests and reviews cases, cooling, memory and motherboards.