Benchmarks II
A high FSB should help gaming, where moving lots of data is a requisite for decent performance. Starting off, as always, with 3DMark 2001SE v330.
It's a little scary when the slowest runner in this group scores 16500+. We see around a 1,000+ mark increase when going from 3.06GHz / 133FSB to 3.00GHz / 200FSB in both the i845PE and i875 cases. The 18309 represents the fastest stock subsystem score ever seen at Hexus. For a breakdown of the top score, head here. Notice that the lobby bandwidth-dependant tests show a marked increase from anything that has gone before. 200FSB allied to DDR-400 dual channel memory does that kind of thing for you. A Radeon 9800 Pro and Canterwood combination is the fastest stock 3Dmarker, if that's your inclination.
Serious Sam 2's Sierra De Chiappas demo at 1024x768x32. Quality setting but no anisotropic filtering.
The Barton XP3000 and nForce2 combination is only bested by the high FSB Canterwood. This just reinforces the notion that clock speed isn't everything. We've put 20FPS+ into a faster processor at 133FSB (3.06GHz / 133FSB)
And now the pretty Comanche 4.
It's an Intel benefit in Comanche 4, with the Canterwood @ DDR-400 taking top honours.
