Application Benchmarks: Media Encoding
We started with the iTunes benchmark, which measures how long it takes iTunes to convert a half-gigabyte WAV file to AAC:
The overclock gave us a performance benefit that mirrors the Sandra CPU benchmarks: about a 44% increase.
Lame delivers a similar performance increase. Even though we haven’t achieved an epic overclock here, it’s still a success in that the impact on real-world usage is huge.
Next, let’s move on to video encoding with DivX and Xvid files using TMPEG.
Our overclock is giving us a solid 40% speed increase here. It’s becoming clear that media encoding applications are dependent on CPU speed more than anything else.
Mainconcept demonstrates the same 40% speed increase when converting an MPEG2 video file to H.264.
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Nice job there but I must ask why did you opt for the X38 and not a P45 or an X48 mobo?
Also I think that watercooling is a little bit out of the mainstream as most people use air cooling on their CPU's.
And why did you choose the Cosmos? Although it is a good chasis it is a bit expensive and with other models that offer quiet operation such as NZXT's Tempest I do believe that the extra money could have been spent elsewhere on the mobo for instance.