AlienWare X51 System Review (Core i7)

Handbrake is a fantastic free program which we wanted to include to confirm findings with Media Espresso, earlier in the review. HandBrake is an open-source, GPL-licensed, multiplatform, multithreaded video transcoder, available for MacOS X, Linux and Windows.

We used the latest V 0.9.5 for testing today across all platforms. We encoded an DVD.MPG file.

The system performs well in this test, although we feel the slowish 1333mhz memory is holding back the time a little. We have tested 2600k systems in the past which are 3-4 seconds faster with this benchmark.

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