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| Pentium4 3.2 GHz GHz How Much Faster | |
| (Review by MS, June23, 2003) |
Application Performance
We are using PCMag Winstones which is inherently somewhat bottlenecked by HDD performance, however, with two Barracuda SATA 7200.7 pushing close to 150 MB/sec burst and over 100 MB/sec sequential transfers, the bottleneck did not appear to be too severe.
Even though Business Winstone2002 is not the strongest application for the P4, the scores are excellent and, still show some improvement over the 3.0 GHz processor. At 14 x 250 MHz (3.5GHz) and 12 x 300 MHz (3.6 GHz), the scores increase another few notches but keep in mind that a large portion of that needs to be attributed to the PSB increase rather than the higher clock speed. Keep in mind here, however, that at both the 250 (1000) and the 300 (1200) MHz PSB, PAT had to be disabled in order for the systems to boot.
Content Creation which is much more CPU dominated than Business Winstone scales better with higher clock frequencies. Note that the memory clock was in all cases 200 MHz.
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