System Setup and Benchmarks
AMD provided us with a motherboard from MSI for our testing; the MS-6702E based on the VIA K8T800 Pro chipset. We also have benchmarks from an Asus board based on the VIA chipset as well as an NVIDIA reference board in the following article later today.
It is important to note that with the release of the 939-pin processors, both motherboard manufacturers and consumers are going to be reorganizing their system. You’ll need a brand new board to take advantage of the new processors, regardless of whether you already own an Athlon 64 or Athlon 64 FX processor-based system. This platform looks to be much more stable looking down the AMD roadmap, however, so those that have been holding off can finally take a look at the AMD64 line of processors with a bit of confidence behind them.
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Pentium 4 Test System Setup | |
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CPU |
1 x 3.4 GHz Pentium 4 (Prescott) |
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Motherboards |
Intel 875DP Motherboard |
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Power Supply |
Antec 550W TrueControl |
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Memory |
2x512MB Corsair PC3200LL Pro Series |
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Hard Drive |
40GB 7200RPM Western Digital EIDE |
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Sound Card |
Creative Labs Live! |
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Video Card |
ATI Radeon 9800XT |
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Video Drivers |
ATI Catalyst 3.10 |
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DirectX Version |
DX 9.0b |
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Operating System |
Windows XP w/ Service Pack 1 |
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Athlon 64 (940) Test System Setup | |
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CPU |
Athlon 64 FX-53 @ 2.4 GHz |
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Motherboards |
VIA K8T800 Pro Reference Motherboard |
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Power Supply |
Antec 550W TrueControl |
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Memory |
2x512MB Corsair PC3200LL Series |
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Hard Drive |
40GB 7200RPM Western Digital EIDE |
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Sound Card |
Creative Labs Live! |
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Video Card |
ATI Radeon 9800XT |
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Video Drivers |
ATI Catalyst 3.10 |
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DirectX Version |
DX 9.0b |
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Operating System |
Windows XP w/ Service Pack 1 |
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Athlon 64 (754) Test System Setup | |
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CPU |
Athlon 64 3400+ @ 2.2 GHz |
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Motherboards |
Abit KV8-MAX3 K8T800 Motherboard |
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Power Supply |
Antec 550W TrueControl |
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Memory |
2x512MB Corsair PC3200LL Pro Series |
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Hard Drive |
40GB 7200RPM Western Digital EIDE |
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Sound Card |
Creative Labs Live! |
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Video Card |
ATI Radeon 9800XT |
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Video Drivers |
ATI Catalyst 3.10 |
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DirectX Version |
DX 9.0b |
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Operating System |
Windows XP w/ Service Pack 1 |
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Athlon 64 (939) Test System Setup | |
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CPU |
Athlon 64 FX-53 @ 2.4 GHz |
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Motherboards |
MSI 6702-E K8T800 Pro Motherboard |
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Power Supply |
Antec 550W TrueControl |
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Memory |
2x512MB Corsair PC3200LL Pro Series |
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Hard Drive |
40GB 7200RPM Western Digital EIDE |
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Sound Card |
Creative Labs Live! |
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Video Card |
ATI Radeon 9800XT |
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Video Drivers |
ATI Catalyst 3.10 |
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DirectX Version |
DX 9.0b |
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Operating System |
Windows XP w/ Service Pack 1 |
The benchmarks used were:
- SiSoft Sandra 2003 Max3! and 2004 SP1
- AIDA32
- Cachemem
- Quake III: Arena
- Unreal Tournament 2003
- X2: The Threat
- 3D Mark 2001: SE v330
- PC Mark 2002
- Business Winstone 2004
- Content Creation Winstone 2004
- Sysmark 2004
- Webmark 2004
- LAME MP3 Encoding
- XMPEG / DivX Encoding
- WinRAR Compression
- SPECviewperf 7.1
- CineBench 2003
- ScienceMark 2.0 Beta
