Date:
Thursday , July 13, 2006
Category:
CPU / Processors
Manufacturers:
Intel
Author:
Kyle Bennett

Intel Core 2 Music, Images, & Movie Performance

Looking for a new system to edit your home movies and pictures on? If you are heavy into encoding video, you will want to know about Intel's new Core 2 processors and the talents that lie within.

Introduction

Many of us today are using our computers for editing video, encoding music and manipulating images. Outside of gaming, (As we have covered here with focus on Intel Core 2 performance.) there are few applications on the desktop that will push our systems to their limits. Some home applications are really starting to shine and become usable by the masses nowadays and there is one thing for certain about them: having a powerful CPU makes these applications that much easier, if not less frustrating, to use.

The benchmarks contained within represent very real world situations just like you would run into at home while encoding video from your camcorder - or while using a picture editing program - or while encoding music for your iPod - or making movies with something as simple as Windows Movie Maker - or encoding a DVD for saving it to your hard drive to allow you easier access to the content.

We have simply timed our various tests on the different systems and supplied you with the amount of time it took for the system to fully build the file. Scratch disks were used properly as well to make sure we were not bumping into any IO bottlenecks elsewhere.

Our Goals

Once again, we are striving to give you, our readers, real-world benchmarks that outline the same sort of computing experience the average person might have at home. We feel as though our conclusions should give you realistic expectations that could be realized from using the similar hardware and software configurations at home.

Test Setup

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We are using our new Intel Core 2 Duo E6700 and Intel Core 2 Extreme X6800 and comparing them to AMD's Athlon 64 FX-62.