Alienware Area-51 7500 Gaming System
In our custom LAME MT MP3 encoding test, we convert a large WAV file to the MP3 format, which is a very popular scenario that many end users work with on a day-to-day basis to provide portability and storage of their digital audio content. In this test, we created our own 223MB WAV file (a never-ending Grateful Dead jam) and converted it to the MP3 format using the multi-thread capable LAME MT application in single and multi-thread modes.
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Processing times are recorded below. Once again, shorter times equate to better performance.
Finally, we see the Area-51 7500 pull ahead of our custom Core 2 Extreme QX6700 975X Express system, even if it is only by a small margin. The nForce 680i motherboard must make the difference here. The overclocked Dell XPS 710 H2C still leads the pack, as you might expect by now.
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Processing times are recorded below. Once again, shorter times equate to better performance.
Rather than beat our custom QX6700 system this time, the Area-51 7500 performs almost exactly the same as it. The other systems fall in basically the same order as in the Lame MP3 encoding benchmark above.
