Hyper Pi and Media Espresso
Hyper is a modified SuperPi front end program. It allows you to calculate Pi in a multi-threaded way, set the number of digits of Pi to calculate, how many cores to use and the priority level for the calculation. It can be used as a stability test or benchmark. Available here.
We run the 4 million digit calculation, set the priority to high and run on the maximum available threads.
“MediaEspresso is a fast media universal converter that can transcode your videos, photos and music files and output them to a huge range of portable devices. You can transfer the converted files directly to portable devices with the Smart Detect and Direct Sync technologies.” Available here.
We converted a 190MB MPEG2 1080p file into H.264 using Media Espresso with hardware acceleration enabled.
You forgot all real world tests. No-one is buying these to run benchmarks..
Thanks for the feedback. What real-world tests would you have like to have seen?
max power draw for the i7 is about 315w for the whole system? and you use a 1000w power supply, which is then 30% used and therefore out of its efficient operating zone. Could save money by using a smaller power supply also.