Intel Core i5 2400S

The LAME results were similar to the FFmpeg results due to being single threaded and being bound by clock speed.

7-Zip is fairly well optimized for multi-core CPUs and sees a nice boost from the Core i5 2400S over the Core i3 models.

Most of NASA's NAS Parallel Benchmarks are multi-core happy in Fortran using OpenMP and scale well using the Core i5 2400S, but obviously the Core i5 2500K eats the cake.