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First we'll give you a quick
take on the Sandra numbers of the P4 3G-800 on the
Canterwood and compare them to a 3.06-533 CPU on a Granite
Bay board. We also give you a taste of SATA 150 Intel
style, as well as RAID 0 wholesome goodness.
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Pentium 4 3.0GHz SiSoft Sandra Testing |
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Canterwood vrs.
Granite Bay - 3G/800 vrs. 3.06G/533 |
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CPU
3G CW
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CPU 3.06G GB
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MM 3G CW
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MM 3.06G GB
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Mem Dual DDR400
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Mem Dual DDR266
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SATA150 HD Test
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SATA150 RAID 0
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Things scale
pretty much on target here, with respect to the CPU and
Multimedia numbers. We have to remember that, although
this new P4 is cranking along on a System bus that is nearly
300MHz faster than its older sibling, it is running about
60MHz slower, since it has an even 3GHz (versus 3.06GHz)
clock speed. This new 3GHz Northwood has a 15X
multiplier and a 200MHz Front Side Bus. The older
3.06GHz P4 has a 23X multiplier and a 133MHz Front Side Bus.
You can do the math from here but there are slightly fewer
clock cycles, at stock speed, with this new chip.
However, as you'll see later, this has zero effect on
real-world performance and the new 800MHz System Bus really
takes this new P4 over the top.
The Memory Test
however, shows not only the benefits of DDR400 but the
obvious strength of pairing it with that 800MHz System Bus
as well. Here we see the new P4 and Canterwood, along
with good DDR400 memory, putting the hurt on anything that
you could configure with RDRAM. This could be the
proverbial nail in the coffin for the controversial memory
technology.
Finally, we took
one of our Maxtor DiamondMax SATA drives out for a spin, to
show you what SATA 150 and a SATA 150 RAID 0 array could do.
Intel's numbers are on pace with the lead dog in the SATA
controller race right now, Silicon Image. We'll dig
deeper into SATA testing toward the end of this article.
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Overclocking The 3GHz P4 - Intel "Burn In"
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Overclocking an
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While these overclocked
speeds are nothing to write home about, we thought it made
sense to show you what this new D875PBZ Canterwood board
from Intel could do. This speed was achieved at stock
voltage, since the BIOS does not allow for voltage
adjustments of any kind. Regardless, it's impressive
to see what Dual DDR at 418MHz can do with an 836MHz FSB.
Nearly 5000MB/sec of integer and floating point bandwidth,
imagine what an Abit, Asus or MSI overclocking ready board
will do.
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Winstone Benchmarks |
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Business
Application and Content Creation Performance |
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Applications
used in the Business Winstone tests include:
- Five Microsoft Office 2002
applications (Access, Excel, FrontPage, PowerPoint, and
Word)
- Microsoft Project 2000
- Lotus Notes
- WinZip 8.0
- Norton AntiVirus
- Netscape Communicator
The Business
Winstone tests are an excellent way to get a feel for how
responsive your system will feel in everyday desktop use.
The Intel D875PBZ is represented in this chart with the
"Canter" abbreviation and the Granite Bay Board is noted
with "GB". AMD's Athlon XP 3000+ still holds the lead
here by a slight edge, due in part to its efficiency with
legacy code. The rest of the field leans toward the
Canterwood based D875PBZ configurations. However,
you'll note that Hyperthreading actually hinders the top end
scores ever so slightly in this test, with 2.8GHz setups
barely outpacing the 3.06GHz systems. Lastly, the P4
3GHz, with 800MHz Sys Bus, puts up the best Biz Winstone
score for a P4 we have seen to date.
Applications
used in the Content Creation Winstone tests include:
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Adobe
Photoshop 6.0.1
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Adobe Premiere
6.0
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Macromedia
Director 8.5
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Macromedia
Dreamweaver UltraDev 4
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Microsoft
Windows Media Encoder 7.01.00.3055
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Netscape
Navigator 6/6.01
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Sonic Foundry
Sound Forge 5.0c (build 184)
The Content
Creation Winstone 2002 test yields more of the same really,
with regard to the P4 scores. However, CC Winstone and
the applications it runs clearly favor the Athlon here by a
wider margin than in the Business Winstone test. Take
a good look at this chart. It's the last time you'll
see the Athlon XP 3000+ lead in this article.
On a side note,
although Content Creation Winstone 2003 is available, we
have yet to get that benchmark to run stable across a number
of platforms. As such, we are unable to include it in
our test suite at this time. We are hopeful that
VeriTest will rectify the issues they are having with
the well known Lightwave crash issue they are having.
Video Encoding With XMPEG And PCMark 2002 |
