picCOLOR, Movie Maker 2.1, WAV, CINEBENCH
Only the £670 Athlon 64 X2 4800+ manages to outgun the overclocked Venice 3000+. Of course, that's not taking other CPUs' stable overclocks into account.
Multi-threaded goodness means that the Pentium dual-core duo reign supreme in our media encoding test.
The same thing also occurs in WAV encoding.
Dual-core CPUs lay the smackdown in CINEBENCH's multi-CPU test, as expected.
