Core i5-661 CPU Review
VirtualDub + DivX
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With VirtualDub we converted a full-length DVD movie to DivX format and saw how long it took for this conversion to be completed. The DivX codec is capable of recognizing and using not only more than one CPU (i.e., more than one core), but also the SSE4 instruction set.
The movie we chose to convert was Star Trek – The Motion Picture: Director’s Cut. We copied the movie to our hard disk drive with no compression, so the final original file on our HDD was 6.79 GB. After compressing it with DivX, the final file was only 767.40 MB, which is quite remarkable.
The results below are given in seconds, so the lower the better.
On DivX encoding Phenom II X4 965 with AMD 785G was 8% faster than Core i5-661 and Core i5-750 with GeForce 9600 GT was 21% faster. Installing a GeForce 9600 GT didn’t make any impact on performance for Core i5-661, but interesting enough Phenom II X4 965 was 7% faster when using its on-board video instead of a GeForce 9600 GT.