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| DFI 855GME-MGF and Intel Pentium M 735 Along came a Dothan | |
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(Review by MS, Jan 2, 2005) |
Gaming Performance
Gaming is still the number one driving factor for PC sales and even though no other game is played as much as Solitaire, that one is not what we are talking about. Rather it is DOOM, Farcry and the likes that foster the updates for more eye candy at higher frame rates and greater resolution. And then there are the oldies like Quake3Arena MDK2 and so on that are still using old-fashioned OpenGL. For Benchmarking purposes, exactly those are relevant, not because of the waning popularity of the games but because most modern graphics cards have no problem with them, meaning that they give some very good and undiluted info about the rest of the system, specifically the CPU. Quake3 Arena has been patched and patched and patched more and at some point we lost track of the latest versions so we'll skip it.
DX-8 Gaming Performance
3DMark2001SE
Our Pro-to-XT modded ASUS card blew something in the auxiliary power circuitry and we had to use a standard ATI X800Pro, which could be responsible for the capping of the result at the 2.26 GHz setting.
Comanche4
Comanche4 is very memory bandwidth and cache dominated, at least in the case of the ExtremeEdition. Prescott on the other hand is a very poor performer here. The larger cache does not show much impact in the case of the Dothan vs. Banias, though.
DX-9 Gaming Performance
X2-Rolling Demo
The Dothan comes within 1% of the fastest processor in the field tested here. A 1.8 GHz-rated CPU with an 18 x multiplier would have easily taken the lead.
Unreal Tournament 2004 Botmatch
The Dothan loves many bots and establishes itself again as the fastest Intel processor.
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Pentium M 735 (Dothan 1.7 GHz) |
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