Video and Audio
Source: Tom's Hardware – Keywords: quad, sli, falcon
Video and Audio
The Falcon Northwest Mach V had an easier time transcoding a DVD9 video than Puget’s Deluge L3, but the difference is minimal.
Again, the two systems produce almost identical results. However, the Mach V comes out ahead in this video test despite having a lower clock speed than the Deluge L3.
The Mach V and Deluge L3 are neck and neck with strong showings again, but this time the Puget system edges out the best time.
In the Studio 11 test, the Mach V pulls well ahead of the Deluge L3 in the MPEG encoding and transitioning tasks.
The Mach V truly shines in the high definition video playback test, as the strain on the system’s CPU is virtually non-existent compared to the Deluge L3’s results.
Like many of the benchmark tests above, the results for encoding a large iTunes file are very close, but the Deluge L3 posts a slightly better speed.
Again, the Deluge L3 has a small advantage over the Mach V in the MP3 encoding test.
In the final audio test, the Mach V blows away the Deluge L3 in Windows Media 9 encoding times.
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Why not a test a game that isn't limited by CPU...like Cryshit
Care to actually explain why the FNW system got such low CPU utilisation on HD playback?
It would be nice to see the HD resolutions listed regularly (1920 x 1080) as people with this much grunt are undoubtedly using their PCs on HD TVs @ 1080p. I mean who on earth plays at resolutions over 2000 pixels wide?
I'm amazed at the poor selction of games that they have chosen to benchmark on. I mean 3 old games and 2 very CPU bound games. I seriously have no idea what they where thinking. Nobody is every going to get a quad/tri SLI setup and then go and play serious sam 2. I really hope they redo this with some good benchmarks: 3DMark Vantage, Crysis, Company of Heroes: OF and maybe Oblivion and UT3.
omg...where's crysis, where's ut3...hell where is oblivion?!
I thought this was supposed to be a thorough test, not just a means to show that quad-SLI performs less than 3-way SLI in SOME game titles...
i would like to comment, but i would just repeat whats already been said, this review gets two thumbs down.
Worst review ever.
Why did they test 3 ultra's against essentialy 4 8800GTS 512's. Also its not an equal test because the two system are different, they should have used the same mobo, processor, ram and hdd etc