System setup and notes
Here's a quick rundown of the test system should you wish to compare benchmark results with your own.CPUS
AMD Athlon 64 3000+ Winchester, S939, 1.80GHz, 1.4v
Intel Pentium 4 530, LGA775, 3.0GHz. 1.4v
AMD Athlon XP3200, S462, 2.2GHz, 1.65v
Motherboards
EPoX EP-9NDA3+ nForce3 Ultra, S939
ASUS P5AD2-E PREMIUM i925XE motherboard, LGA775
EPoX EP-8DRA6+ PRO nForce2 Ultra, S462
Other components
2x512MB OCZ Platinum Rev 2 dual-channel RAM (2-2-2-5 @ DDR400 & 2.5-3-3-7 @ DDR530)
2x512MB Crucial Ballistix DDR2 667 at 533MHz (3-3-3-10)
NVIDIA GeForce 6800 GT reference, both AGP and PCIe (350/1000)
Western Digital 160JB hard drive
Samcheer 420w PSU
Dell P991 19" monitor
Software
Windows XP Professional SP2
DirectX 9.0c (incorporated in SP2)
NVIDIA ForceWare 5.10 platform drivers
Intel 6.2.1.1002 chipset drivers
NVIDIA ForceWare 61.77 drivers
CPU-Z 1.25
Benchmarks
Pifast v4.1
ScienceMark 2.0
Lame v3.92 MP3 encoding with Razor-Lame 1.15 front-end using U2's Pop album (607MB)
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
Athlon 64 3000+ performance, both default and overclocked, will be compared to an Intel Pentium 4 3.0GHz LGA775 Prescott's and an AMD Athlon XP3200's. Both comparison CPUs are priced in the crucial £100-£120 bracket, making them perfect material by which to judge the Athlon 64 3000+ S939 against.
Benchmarks were conducted at 1024x768 85Hz unless otherwise stated. Each test was carried out 3 times and the highest and lowest results were discarded.
