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Intel Pentium4 600 Series
(Review by MS February 21, 2005)

Futuremarks

3DMark2001SE

The 560-925XE denotes the P4 560 running at 14 x 1066 = 3.73GHz. The 600 series finally takes a lead.

3DMark'05

The new ExtremeEdition is about 2.5 % faster than the old version.

3DMark'05 does have a few bugs, one in particular that affects the CPU benchmark 1 and, consequently, the entire score. That is, unlike all other parts of the benchmark, the CPU benchmark is very sensitive to the number of iterations it has already run, with the first run usually producing somewhat unreproduceable results that are, in addition, about 20% below the following runs. This phenomenon is known for pretty much all other gaming benchmarks as well. In other words, the first run does not count and along these lines, we could have produced anything from 0 to 15 % performance delta using those data. The second run usually stabilizes and produces scores consistent with the third and following runs. As trivial as this seems, we have seen enough performance presentations that did not take this into account.

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