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Virus Scan & Audio Conversion

Virus scanning has become a very common and crucial task for using a PC in everyday life. New viruses are reported constantly and they spread rapidly through email and internet browsing. Virus scanner engines prevent these viruses from harming the user's system and they have become an essential part of a home user's PC as well. The component used in this test is the virus scanner from F-Secure Corporation.

Audio Conversion, a part of PCs evolution is the increase in entertainment usage. Listening to music and creating playlists are common tasks to perform while operating a PC. Audio Conversion test uses the Ogg Vorbis audio compression. The Audio Conversion test compresses a 10 second wave format audio file sized approximately 1.7MB to Ogg Vorbis format and the time for encoding is measured.

Last real-word performance results before we dive into gaming on this platform. No idea why virus scanning was so much faster and Audio conversion so bad.

PCMark05

Just for the sake of the number we'll include the CPU score of PCMark05

A highly synthetic test though. Time for some games then. We will start off with a series of CPU limited games.