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Strained Silicon
Die (re)Organization
Prescott New Features I
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Test Setups
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Sysmark 2004
Internet Content Creation
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Cinebench 2003
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=> OpenGL
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 Intel Pentium4 "Prescott"
Strained to the Silicon
(Review by MS, Feb. 1, 2004)
Intel Prescott
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Test Configurations

P4 Platform
  • ASUS P4P800
  • Intel Pentium4
    • P4 3.0C (Northwood)
    • P4 3.2C (Northwood)
    • P4 EE (3.2GHz)
    • P4 2.8E (Prescott)
    • P4 3.0E (Prescott)
    • P4 3.2E (Prescott)
  • 2 x 512 MB Mushkin Level One PC3200 DDR SDRAM
  • 2 x Seagate Barracuda 7200.7 SATA in RAID Level0
  • Pioneer 12x DVDROM
AMD Athlon XP Platform
  • ASUS A7N8X
  • AMD Athlon XP 3200+
  • 2 x 256 MB Mushkin Level II PC3200 DDR SDRAM
  • Seagate Barracuda ATA-V
  • Pioneer 12x DVDROM
Athlon 64 Platform
  • ABIT KV8 MAX3
  • AMD Athlon 64
    • Athlon64 3100 + (not released)
    • Athlon64 3200+
    • Athlon64 3400+
    • Athlon64 3500+*
  • 2 x 512 MB Mushkin Level One PC3200 DDR SDRAM
  • 2 x Seagate Barracuda 7200.7 SATA in RAID Level0
  • Pioneer 12x DVDROM
Athlon64 FX-51 Platform
  • ASUS SK8N or SK8V
  • AMD Athlon64 FX-51
  • 2 x 512 MB Mushkin Registered ECC PC3200 Memory
  • 2 x Western Digital Raptor WD360 in RAID Level0
  • Sony DVD ROM>
Common Hardware
ATI RADEON 9800 Pro
Maxtor DiamondMax 9 Plus (160 GB - Sysmark 2004 only)
WindowsXP Professional
SP1a
DX9b
Microsoft Patch 213125
ATI Catalyst 4.1 Drivers

* A64-3500+: we were using a slightly overclocked (210 MHz bus speed Athlon64 3400)


Benchmarks

We did not receive our copies of PCMag Winstone 2004 in time, therefore, we omit Winstone benchmarks from this review. SPEC ViewPerf is too graphics card-limited to produce reasonable results, we may follow up with a separate ViewPerf review in time.

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