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Product:
Pentium III 800EB
Company: Intel
Website: http://www.intel.com
Estimated Street Price: about $789.00 as of April 10, 2000
Review By: Julien Jay
Comparisons
For
the first time ever the Pentium III 800EB beats the AMD Athlon at the same
frequency. It is due to the fact that the Athlon processors used a L2
cache memory frequency that is 2.5 times slower than the Intel one. Here
are the CPUMark 99 results for the Athlon 800 and the Pentium III 800 EB.
| Program |
Athlon
800 (8*100 Mhz ) |
Pentium
III 800EB |
| CPUMark
99 |
69.9 |
71.9 |
| FPUMark |
4380 |
4320 |
Well
the speed of the cache memory is very important for CPU performance.
The E or EB Pentium III now comes with 256Kb of cache memory that use the
same frequency that the CPU. That is to say for a PIII 800EB, the cache
memory will run at 800Mhz (before on Pentium II/III the cache speed went
at only the CPU frequency divided by 2). More interesting is the fact that
now the cache memory management is done in 256 bits instead of 128 bits
for previous Pentium III. This allows latest Pentium III CPU to have a
bandwidth of 9.6Gb/s (instead of 2.4Gb/s for the old Pentium III). Below
are the CPU Mark 99 differences between a PIII 600 and a PIII600EB:
Setup
Motherboard:
Asus P3C2000 with latest 1020 beta 9 bios and i820 chipset
CPU:
Pentium III 600EB & Pentium III 800EB
Memory:
256Mb of SDRAM running at 100Mhz
Hard Disks: Maxtor 20Gb UDMA 66 7200rpm; IBM 20Gb UDMA 66
7200rpm; Maxtor 8.4Gb UDMA 66 5400 rpm
DVD:
Pioneer DVD104 EIDE UDMA 3 10/40x
Display
adapter: Matrox Millennium G400 Max with the latest 5.52 drivers
Sound card: Sound Blaster Live! Platinum,
Peripherals: Creative DXR3 card, Pinnacle Studio DV,
miroVideo DC30+, Adaptec AHA2940AU, Yamaha 4416S CD Burner, MS
Intellimouse Explorer, MS Natural Keyboard Pro
Everything
was running under Windows 98SE.
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