ASUS P8H67-I (Intel H67) Mini ITX Motherboard Review

PCMark 7

Version and / or Patch Used: 1.04

Developer Homepage: http://www.pcmark.com

Product Homepage: http://www.pcmark.com

Buy It Here

PCMark 7 includes a range of tests that give different views of your system's performance. In the Advanced Edition you can choose which tests to run. The common use and hardware component tests are unavailable in the Basic Edition.

Overall system performance is measured by the PCMark test. This is the only test that returns an official PCMark score. The Lightweight test measures the system capabilities of entry-level systems and mobility platforms unable to run the PCMark test, but it does not generate a PCMark score.

Common use performance is measured by the scenario tests - Entertainment, Creativity and Production - each of which results in a scenario score.

Hardware component performance is measured by the hardware tests - Computation and Storage - each of which results in a hardware score.

Looking at PCMark 7, you can see that performance is near identical at stock with nothing but 2 points separating the two setups.

MediaEspresso

Version and / or Patch Used: 6.5

Developer Homepage: http://www.cyberlink.com/

Product Homepage: http://www.cyberlink.com/products/mediaespresso/overview_en_AU.html?fileName=overview&r=1

Buy It Here

MediaEspresso is a blazingly fast media universal converter that can transcode your videos, photos and music files and out put them to a huge range of portable devices including mobile phones, portable media players and even game consoles. With technologies like Smart Detect, Direct Sync and CyberLink's TrueTheater™ video enhancements, you can not only forget about complicated format, resolution and output settings, but your converted file will come out the other side looking better than when it went in!

Firing up MediaEspresso, we can see our encode time is a bit longer at just under 23 minutes. Overall, though, the encode time isn't too bad when you consider you're converting a 1080p movie down to an iPad 2 friendly format.