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The results are pretty close for MP3 encoding.

A neck and neck race for last place.

But great results for XViD, nipping at the heels of Intel.

One added note with regards to the RightMark Audio testing phase of his review. I had run the RightMark Audio tests, but for some odd reason came back with nothing but zeroes for my CPU utilization for the 2D, 3D, and 3D+EAX for the encoding tests. Yes, zero CPU load would be so perfectly sweet a score, but also quite impossible. There were also some issues with regards to Dolby DTS audio. Specifically, a number of NVIDIA 680i chipset owners have complained of popping and hissing sounds when having DTS enabled. Disabling DTS eliminates this problem of course.

To put it bluntly, the 680i needs some major BIOS revisions for both audio and SATA devices. We'll just have to wait and see what NVIDIA rolls out, and what ASUS does with a new BIOS.