System setup and notes
Here's a quick rundown of the test
system should you wish to compare benchmark results with your own.
2500+
AQXEA stepping
S462 CPU (1833MHz / 166FSB)
AMD Barton XP2800+
S462 CPU (2033MHz / 166FSB)
AMD Barton XP3200+
S462 CPU (2200MHz / 200FSB)
Intel Pentium 4 3.2GHz 800FSB S478 HT
CPU
EPoX 8RDA3G nForce2 Ultra 400
motherboard for all AMD CPUs
EPoX 4PDA2+ i865PE Springdale
motherboard with new PAT BIOS for the 3.2GHz P4
Other components
800
Pro (380/340)
2 x 256MB Corsair XMS3500C2,
run at 2-6-2-2 @ DDR333
and DDR400
Liteon 16x DVD
Samcheer 420w PSU
with adjustable pots
Samsung 181T TFT monitor
Taisol 760 with twin 60mm 25CFM fans
Intel reference cooler
Software
- Windows XP Professional Build
2600.xpclient.010817-1148
- DirectX9
.0a
NVIDIA nForce 2.45
drivers
Intel 5.00.1012 chipset drivers
ATI CATALYST 3.2
drivers and control panel (6307s)
Pifast v41 to 10m places
Lame v3.92
MP3 encoding with Razor-Lame 1.15 front-end using U2's Pop album
SiSoft SANDRA 2003 (v9.73)
3DMark 2001SE
v330
UT2003 Demo (Build 2206)
Comanche 4 benchmark
X2: The Threat - Rolling Benchmark
Quake 3 v1.30 HQ
Demo Four
Notes
A new revision of NVIDIA's
chipset drivers, v2.45, make previous comparisons statistically flawed,
so we'll start anew. We want to see just where the Barton XP2500 stands
in both non-overclocked and overclocked forms. The addition of XP2800+
(2.083GHz / 166FSB), XP3200+ (2.2GHz / 200FSB) and a 3.2GHz P4 (3.2GHz /
200FSB) should provide decent comparative performance figures. EPoX's
excellent nForce2 Ultra 400 motherboard will provide the backbone to the AMD CPUs,
and the 4PDA2+, also from EPoX, is perhaps the fastest DDR-based Intel
motherboard currently available, helped by the newer, more aggressive
BIOS.
