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One of the things about SPEC ViewPERF is that the individual benches don't really run that well on any "consumer" graphics card which was reason enough to pull out the nVidia Quadro4 XGL980 professional graphics card again (just gotto love it)

In ViewPERF, the P4 at 3.06GHz on the Granite Bay platform pulls ahead. Given the fact that the GB chipset increases performance in this particular benchmark by a very stout margin compared to any 845 chipset only underscores what the XP2800+ and moreover, the XP3000+ are capable of delivering here.

Overclocking

We have heard it before and keep hearing it that the AMD processors, particularly those rated at the highest speedgrades don't overclock well. We ran into problems with the XP3000+ when we were trying to run at 190 MHz bus speed. After all, we settled on 186 MH FSB at which the processor ran at default voltage as smooth as a baby's butt.

No voltage tweaks, standard air cooling without even opening the window and no problems running at that speed either

Bonus Track

Alias Wavefront Advanced Visualizer (AWadvs0.4)

This benchmark is taken from ViewPERF 6.1.2 and the numbers shown below were average frame rates for default speed, overclocked to 180 MHz FSB and 186 MHz FSB. OpenGL applications usually care relatively little about cache size, therefore, the XP2800+ is, at default, faster than the XP3000+

Some whopping scores...

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