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| Intel Pentium4 3.46 Extreme Edition / 925XE chipset | |
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(Review by MS November 16) |
| Intel P4 560+ At: |
Sysmark 2004
SYSMARK IS one of the most elaborate system benchmark. The approval and membership panel is staffed by both Intel and AMD along with a number of other companies, however, there has always been some lingering suspicion that the same business address as that of Intel means a bit more than just locality of human entities.
Overall Score
The 925XE gains about 3.5% over its predecessor. Keep in mind, however, that the CPU itself runs at 3.46GHz as opposed to the 3.4 GHz of the earlier version - a 1.7% difference right there.
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Intel P4 Northwood 2.4 (hard to find) |
Internet Content Creation
In Content Creation, the actual raw power of the CPU and by extension, the clock speed matters more than anything else and this is where we see the extra 60 MHz pay off
Office Productivity
On the other hand, in office applications that are mostly memory and cache limited, the new chipset revision plays out its strength with almost 5% performance gain over the old stepping
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