Quote Originally Posted by informal View Post
I doubt that handbrake scales perfectly with cores.
It doesn't. Nor does it scale well with frequency changes.

I refuse to use Handbrake in CPU benching simply because its results tend to be all over the place, particularly on Windows 7 for some reason.

Dirt 3 isn't a particularly good indicator either since it will be massively held back by the GPU being used in this test.