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In general, nothing changes much, there were some applications that would not run or show erratic behavior. One example is Caligari TrueSpace 4.2 which would immediately cause a BSOD, another example was ULead MediaStudio 6.0 Pro which was running somewhat slower on the Athlon XP 2000+ but faster on the Willamette whereas the Northwood took a performance hit as well. Aquamark was running much faster than in Windows98 but the ranking did not change. Expendable was somewhat surprising since the P4 scores dropped dramatically whereas the Athlon scored higher than in Win98SE.

Let's start with the easy one: Quake3 Arena Demo four

Aquamark 640 x 480 x 16bpp

In WindowsXP, all P4s scored much better than in Win98SE, on a relative scale as well as in absolute frame rate numbers.

The P4 catches up big time in Aquamark running under WindowsXP.

Expendable

WindowsXP, Expendable and the P4 are a bad combination.

Something doesn't work right here maybe somebody ought to look at this in more detail.

Most other benchmarks used showed somewhat different numbers than in Win98SE but otherwise, the ranking and the relative position of the individual CPU were the same. Quite honestly, I could throw in another 25 graphs and about 10 additional benchmarks but they all come out with about the same pattern and repetitions are boring

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