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LOSTCIRCUITS	SHORTCUTS: A matter of 8 cores Dual Independent Buses FBDIMMs or back to the MTH FBDIMMs, Take 2 The S5000XVN Test Configuration Memory Bandwidth Latencies Intercore and cache communication DVD Shrink, & Mainconcept H.264 Futuremarks Cinebench, POV Ray TrueSpace and Render Power Power Consumption Final Thoughts Give Us Some Feedback on this Review
Intel's V8-Demo System "Octopussy"
(Review by MS, May 31, 2007)

Media Encoding

The 8-core system as we have it is primarily labeled as media center PC. Instead of continuing a Sandra slideshow, we refocus on a few benchmarks in the general genre of media encoding, that is DVD-Shrink and MainConcept. Video and audio encoding are becoming increasingly important in the world of personal computing. Home-editing of videos and sound recordings are among the most popular applications as is just the standard archiving of DVD material. In the case of audio encoding, there is relatively little out there in terms of applications that are multithreaded, meaning that they would take advantage of multiple cores. Or if there are appications like that, they are not free and the generally short conversion times achieved with free download utilities do not provide enough anguish to actually purchase potentially faster, multithreaded applications.For this article we used two applications that at least ran in the 80-85% CPU utilization when encoding audiovisual material, namely DVD-Shrink 3.2 and the latest version of Mainconcept, namely H.264 Encoder.

In the case of DVD-Shrink we compressed John Grisham's "Runaway Jury" from 4,464 MB to 3,323MB, a compression to 59.6%. Mainconcept encoded a 4.2 MB file (Watermellon.mpg) file to an [H.264] High, 1920 x 1080 pixel, 29.97 fps, 48,000Hz 16 bit MPG file. Dr.DivX did not install on Vista-64. therefore, we had to exclude it from our benchmark suite.

DVD-Shrink

Processing Time [sec], lower is better

Mainconcept

Processing Time [sec], lower is better

In both applications, the 8-core system sets new records, there is nothing quite like it availble off the shelves.

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