Joe88 Wrote:first time I ran it x264 crashed on the third test
had to rerun it

x264 like never crashes...

Maybe you overclocked a bit too much?  Because x264 is pretty CPU intensive, I used to use it to test overclock stability in the past.

Joe88 Wrote:not bad though, my OC'd c2d can almost keep up with the quad core
c2q and i7's

Only the 1st pass, the core i7 double'd you on the second pass.  But yeah, that's good for a dual.

Competitive on the 1st pass because....

Assassinator Wrote:Generally the 2nd pass results (the slower 4 numbers) are a better indication of the true power of the CPU, as the 1st pass (analysis pass) is somewhat bottlenecked by the non-multithreadable components and never really reaches 100%CPU usage for quads and higher.

(This post was last modified: 13/03/2010 03:47 AM by Assassinator.)