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| AMD Athlon64 3400+ The speed bump that was more | |
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(Review by MS, January 6, 2004) |
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Gaming Performance
3DMark2001SE is probably still the "mother" of all gaming benchmarks. We have looked at 3DMark2003, and looked at it again and after some more looking, we finally decided that, despite its being more up to date than 3DMark2001SE, the latter is a better benchmark, especially when it comes to system performance. In other words, thanks but no thanks, there is no point in showing benchmark results that don't really matter
3dmark2001SE
Here we have the first surprise, the Athlon64 3400 pulls ahead of the FX51. It is not really a surprise, though, since the VIA chipset has a higher bandwidth interface between the CPU and the chipset, including AGP tunnel.
Aquamark3
In Aquamark3's CPU rating, Intel processors come out on top, moreover, the FX-51 is ahead in the game. There are a number of gaming benchmarks that are dictated more by chipset latencies and show any of the nForce3-150 solutions beating the VIA-chipset based competition.
When it comes to actual frame rates, the deck is shuffled again and the FX-51 falls further behind. Overall, the spread is rather small and nothing to base any decision on.
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