Benchmarks II
A test I find more useful in gauging effective system bandwidth is the PiFast Bench. The Hexus PiFast benchmark consists of running one of the fastest PI calculators available for the windows platform, using the following settings:Calculate PI to 10,000000 places using the Chudnovsky method, standard mode with an FFT size of 1024k.
Again bus speed shows its strengths in providing far more bandwidth.
Unreal Tournament 2003 has only just been released and is therefore an ideal test representative of next generation games. This game is very CPU limited with a top end graphics card at these resolutions (800x600). Huge gains in performance are once again shown with the higher bus speeds.
