DivX, LAME, Raytracing, KribiBench
The Pentium 4's pure MHz grunt establishes a healthy lead over the Athlon64 3200+ system. The Biostar does exactly what it should, that is, produce a time well under 3 minutes. It's crunching 600MB+ of U2 WAVs into 192kb/s MP3 format. It's handy to be able to compress an entire album in under three minutes. It should allow for on-the-fly compression, even with a fast digital extractor.
The test here was to encode the first VOB of American History X using a bitrate of 1000kb/s. Benchmark mode was limited to the first 5,000 frames and no sound was encoded. DivX Pro 5.05 was used. Black borders were cropped too. The iDEQ 200T does well again.
KribiBench, a software renderer, downloadable from here, just loves the P4 and any every DDR chipset. The Biostar keeps a small yet consistent lead over the Shuttle XPC, probably due to that 9MHz clock advantage. We reckon that manufacturers should be forced to set a consistent FSB speed across all models.
Realstorm's Raytracing benchmark prefer's AMD's new CPU. The SFF systems are left to battle it out for last place.
