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As always, we'll make it short and sweet. There are some games that favor the Athlon, others that favor the P4 and 3DMark2003 hardly shows any difference between an Athlon overclocked to 2.4GHz and the same processor underclocked to 1 GHz so why bother including it for measuring CPU performance. Instead, we stick with some of the established benchmarks as there are: 3DMark2001SE, Novalogic Comanche4 and UnrealTournament2003. In case of the latter, the Flyby benchmark is hardly relevant for processor performance, we still show it as reference but the important scores are Botmatch since the frame rates are so low that graphics card limitations like fill rate do not matter at all.

3DMark2001SE

In 3DMark2001SE, the P4 pulls ahead. APIC or no APIC has no influence on the gaming benchmarks, at least, we did not see any.

It is probably due because of some more aggressive BIOS settings that the "XP3152+" pulls ahead. Nonetheless, there is also a 150 point difference between the 1004 and the 1003 BIOS version.

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