System setup and notes
Here's a quick rundown of the test system should you wish to compare benchmark results with your own.Processors
Intel Pentium 4 570J 3.8GHz Prescott, LGA775, 19x200, ~1.3875v, DDR2 533 DC (3-3-3-10)
Intel Pentium 4 560 3.6GHz Prescott, LGA775, 18x200, 1.3875v, DDR2 533 DC (3-3-3-10)
Intel Pentium 4 3.46GHz Extreme Edition, 13x266 LGA775, 1.5v, DDR2 533 DC (3-4-4-8)
Intel Pentium 4 550 3.4GHz Prescott, LGA775, 17x200, 1.3875v, DDR2 533 DC (3-3-3-10)
Intel Pentium 4 3.4GHz Northwood, S478, 16x200,1.5v, DDR400 DC (2-2-2-5)
AMD Athlon 64 FX-55, 2600MHz, S939, 13x200, 1.5v, 1MB L2 cache, DDR400 DC memory (2-2-2-5)
AMD Athlon 64 Model 4000+, 2400MHz, S939, 12x200, 1.5v, 1MB L2 cache, DDR400 DC memory (2-2-2-5)
AMD Athlon 64 Model 3800+, 2400MHz, S939, 12x200, 1.5v, 512kb L2 cache, DDR400 DC memory (2-2-2-5)
AMD Athlon 64 Model 3500+, 2200MHz, S939, 11x200, 1.5v, 512kb L2 cache, DDR400 DC memory (2-2-2-5)
AMD Athlon 64 Model 3200+, 2000MHz, S754, 10x200, 1.5v, DDR400 SC memory (2-2-2-5)
Motherboards
Intel reference D925XECV2, i925XE, for both 3.8GHz 570J and 3.46GHz Extreme Edition CPUs
DFI LANPARTY i925X LGA775 Alderwood
ASUS A8V Deluxe S939 VIA K8T800 Pro
BIOSTAR K8NHA Grand S754 nForce3 250Gb
ABIT IC7-G S478 Canterwood
Other components
2x512MB OCZ Platinum Rev 2 dual-channel RAM (2-2-2-5)
2x512MB Crucial Ballistix DDR2 667
NVIDIA GeForce 6800 GT reference (350/1000), both AGP and PCIe
Western Digital 160JB hard drive
Samcheer 420w PSU
Dell P991 19" monitor
Software
Windows XP Professional SP2
DirectX 9.0c
VIA Hyperion 4.53 drivers
Intel 5.0.2.1003/6.0.1.1006 chipset drivers
NVIDIA ForceWare 61.77 drivers
CPU-Z 1.24
Benchmarks
Pifast v4.1
ScienceMark 2.0
Lame v3.92
MP3 encoding with Razor-Lame 1.15 front-end using U2's Pop album(611MB)
KribiBench v1.1
Realstorm Raytracing 2004 - 512x384 - no AA
HEXUS XviD encoding test
3DMark2001SE b330
UT2003 HEXUS Custom low-detail benchmark
Comanche 4
DOOM 3 - Timedemo 1 - HQ
Notes
The original plan was to benchmark the 570J on a DFI i925X LANPARTY motherboard. However, the semi-unlocked CPU would boot up perfectly between 14x-18x multipliers but would then fail to do so at the default 19x. Updating the BIOS to the latest version, dated 23/09, failed to solve the problem. Testing it into a reference Intel 925XE motherboard highlighted no such problems. It appears to be a BIOS-related issue with the DFI board, unfortunately. Other than this, there were no further problems to report during testing and benchmarking. Benchmarks were carried out 3 times and the highest and lowest results were discarded.
Overclocking
I've refrained from including overclocking tests due to using a reference board for testing. Limited FSB manipulation and no voltage adjustment dictates that we'll be taking a look at overclocking potential at a later date, sadly. I'd wager that air-cooled overclocking on default volts would see no more than 4-4.1GHz with perfect stability. That assumption is based on Intel's decision to scrap a 4GHz model.
