Quad Core i5 gaming/rendering system @ 4.2ghz, for less than a grand?

Encoding is something most of us do on a fairly regular basis and it is a good way to monitor any fluctuations in performance across the range of motherboards on test today.

One of our favourite tools is the excellent, free Handbrake.  HandBrake is an open-source, GPL-licensed, multiplatform, multithreaded video transcoder, available for MacOS X, Linux and Windows.

We extracted a VOB file from the DVD of AVATAR and then converted it to MP4 at quality settings.

Our overclock removes over 3 minutes from the encoding time – a great result for the overclock saving many hours of encoding time over the course of a day.

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