Media encoding and rendering

Microsoft Windows Media Encoder 9

LAME MT MP3 Encoding

Cinebench 9.5

Notes

Despite being saddled with slower 667MHz memory, the XPS 710 delivered solid performance in our media encoding and rendering benchmarks. The XPS 710 slightly outperformed our nForce 680i testbed in both MP3 encoding and our testing with Cinebench 9.5, while video conversion tests with WME9 were just two seconds slower than the nForce 680i system.

Also, as you can see in the benchmarks, the XPS 710 overclocked to 3.2GHz delivers nice gains in performance.