Phenom II X6 1100T Black Edition CPU Review

VirtualDub + DivX

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 (feature not available on the reviewed CPUs).

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 the new Phenom II X6 1100T (3.3 GHz) was 4% faster than the Phenom II X6 1090T (3.2 GHz), 9% faster than the Phenom II X6 1075T (3 GHz), 10% faster than the Phenom II X4 970 (3.5 GHz), 13% faster than the Phenom II X4 965 (3.4 GHz) and 18% faster than the Core i7-870 (2.93 GHz).

It lost to the Core i5-750 (2.66 GHz), which was 7% faster than the reviewed CPU, to the Core i7-965 (3.2 GHz), which was 11% faster, and the Core i7-980X (3.33 GHz), which was 17% faster.