Image Editing, Video Encoding and Multitasking

Real world applications benchmarks such as the ones below are a great way to see the benefits an overclock provides for everyday PC use. Some motherboards respond better than others when overclocking even they're CPUs are clocked at the same speeds and in the gaming performance tests we found that the Renaissance was a particularly happy bunny when overclocked.

The trend was continued in the applications results with board become much more competitive with its peers with the frequency cranked up and more juice running through its veins. Multitasking showed a particular improvement with the Renaissance being faster than the Gigabyte EX58-UD3R, which was actually running at 4.1GHz in testing.

As ever, the multi-threaded Handbrake H.264 video encoding test speeds go pretty stellar with the eight process threads of Core i7's overclocked to the hilt.