System Setup and Benchmarks
Our system setup for this review changed only slightly, in that we upgraded from our ATI Radeon 9700 Pro graphics card to the ATI Radeon 9800XT card. One of these cards was provided by ATI for our testing purposes, so we thank them for that.
Our benchmark suite did add two benchmarks as well. The 2004 revisions of the Content Creation Winstone and Business Winstone were thrown into the mix to give us an additional data point when comparing these processors.
Here are the test configurations:
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| CPU | 1 x Athlon 64 3000+ @ 2.0 GHz 1 x Athlon 64 3200+ @ 2.0 GHz 1 x Athlon 64 3400+ @ 2.2 GHz |
| Motherboards | Abit KV8-MAX3 K8T800 Motherboard |
| Chipset Drivers | VIA Hyperion 4.49 |
| Memory | 2 x 512MB Corsair Micro DDR DRAM |
| Hard Drive | 80 GB 7200 RPM IBM EIDE |
| Video Card | ATI Radeon 9800XT |
| Video Drivers | Catalyst 3.10 |
| Operating System | Windows XP w/ Service Pack 1 |
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| CPU | 1 x Intel P4 3.2 GHz |
| Motherboards | Chaintech 9CJS 875 Canterwood |
| Chipset Drivers | Intel INF 1003 |
| Memory | 2 x 512MB Corsair Micro DDR DRAM |
| Hard Drive | 80 GB 7200 RPM IBM EIDE |
| Video Card | ATI Radeon 9800XT |
| Video Drivers | Catalyst 3.10 |
| Operating System | Windows XP w/ Service Pack 1 |
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| CPU | 1 x Athlon XP 3200+ GHz @ 2.2 GHz |
| Motherboards | DFI LanParty NFII Ultra |
| Chipset Drivers | VIA Hyperion 4.49 |
| Memory | 2 x 512MB Corsair Micro DDR DRAM |
| Hard Drive | 80 GB 7200 RPM IBM EIDE |
| Video Card | ATI Radeon 9800XT |
| Video Drivers | Catalyst 3.10 |
| Operating System | Windows XP w/ Service Pack 1 |
Tests:
Quake III: Arena
Unreal Tournament 2K3
X2: The Threat
3D Mark 2001: SE v330
SiSoft Sandra Memory Bench
SiSoft Sandra CPU Bench
AIDA32
Cachemem
Content Creation Winstone 2001
Content Creation Winstone 2002
Content Creation Winstone 2004
Business Winstone 2001
Business Winstone 2002
Business Winstone 2004
SPECviewperf 7.1
CineBench 2003
ScienceMark 2.0 Beta
