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Product: Pentium 4 2.53GHz & Intel D850EMV2
Motherboard
Company: Intel
Website: http://www.intel.com
Estimated Street Price: $637
Review By:
Julien Jay
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Games Benchmarks
How can we do a complete roundup of the most powerful processors
without testing them under Quake III Arena, the ultimate gamers'
reference? The Pentium 4 has always exceled under Quake III
Arena so it's no surprise to see the results. The various systems tested were all
using an Hercules 3D Prophet II Ultra 64 MB graphics card with
the latest NVIDIA 28.32 drivers. The big surprise is that each
Intel Pentium 4 processors starting from 2.0GHz beats AMD's
Athlon XP 2000+ showing the unbelievable power resource the
Pentium 4 has in stock for advanced 3D games.
The rambus memory
is also decisive for the outstanding Pentium 4 Quake III
framerate. The framerate gets with a Pentium 4 2.53GHz is 12%
better than the one obtained with the AMD Athlon XP 2000+. The
Pentium 4 2.53GHz gives a framerate 1% better than the Pentium 4
2.4GHz FSB400MHz showing that at a certain point the frequencies
itself isn't enough to further enhance performance: we
deliberately use a GeForce II Ultra graphics card for our
benchmarks since we consider it to be a
reference graphics card.
This
benchmark is the first to show that a Pentium 2.4GHz (FSB533)
teamed up with PC1066 memory can beat a faster processor, a
Pentium 4 2.53GHz teamed up with PC800 memory. For example the
Pentium 4 2.4GHz - PC1066 gives a 0.7% better result than the
Pentium 4 2.53GHz - PC800. |
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MadOnion's 3D Mark 2001 has become an other reference when
benchmarking 3D performance of PCs. We used it with our faithful Hercules 3D
Prophet II Ultra 64MB. The Pentium 4 2.53GHz gives a result 7.4%
better than the one of the Pentium 4 2.4Ghz FSB400 and outperforms the
Athlon XP 2000+ by 13%. The Pentium 4 2.53Ghz with PC1066 memory
gives a result 3% better than the one of the Pentium 4 2.53GHz
using PC800 memory. |
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To complete our series of multimedia
benchmarks, we tested the latest Pentium 4 with the famous Unreal
Tournament game. As usual we used a GeForce II Ultra 64MB along with
NVIDIA's 28.32 drivers. The test was done in a 640*480*16bits
resolution. We used 'utbench.dem' to test our CPUs. The results are all
very near, but nonetheless the Pentium 4 2.53GHz/i850e/PC1066 couple arrives on top with 75.03fps.
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To conclude this extensive benchmark here
are the results we get from AMD NBench 2.0. NBench is a program, made by
AMD, that measures the ability of a CPU to render complex 3D scenes.
It's obviously not optimized for the Pentium 4, and massively biased
toward the Athlon. Nonetheless I thought this was interesting to publish
those results. As you can see the Athlon XP 2000+ is on top of the race
outperforming the Pentium 4 2.53GHz PC1066 by 10%! The test highlights a
modest performance gain of 2% when switching from PC800 to PC1066
memory.
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