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:

Athlon 64 Test System Setup
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

Intel Pentium 4 Test System Setup
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

Athlon XP Test System Setup
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

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