OcUK Titan 8350a King Cobra MK2 (3.6GHz FX-8120 / 2GB Radeon 7850)

HandBrake is a fantastic free program that can be used to convert video files to many common formats for portable devices. HandBrake is an open-source, GPL-licensed, multi-platform, multi-threaded video transcoder, available for MacOS X, Linux and Windows.

We used the latest V 0.9.8 version.

For our testing today we are converting a 4.4GB 720p MKV file (1h:58mins) to MP4 format, using HandBrake's ‘Normal' profile, for playback on High-Resolution devices. This is a common procedure for many people and will give a good indication of system power.

Encoding time increases when converting to a higher-resolution format, in comparison to the Apple MP4 file output by our MediaEspresso test. As with the lower-resolution media encoding test, we would have liked to see the FX-8120 make better use of its 8 processing cores by outperforming Intel's similarly-priced quad cores, not just matching their performance.

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