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On
the Business / Multimedia side of things, Ziff
Davis' Content Creation Winstone 2001 provides a
good yard stick for measurement.
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| Overclocked
P4 Benchmarks |
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Here
we threw in a score from Intel's D850GB
motherboard, that you saw in our
Pentium 4 Launch Review.
Notice that the Asus P4T actually edges out this
Intel reference board by a small margin. At
1.74 (we rounded off the 1.737GHz.) the P4 shows
decent headroom.
It
should be noted that we used Windows 2000 for our
CCWinstone 2001 testing in that piece. That
was more of an effort to cater to both ends of the
Corporate User audience. The scores taken in
Windows 2000Pro are significantly higher than
these taken in WindowsME. We are not sure
why this is but CCWinstone 2001 "likes"
Windows2000Pro a little better than ME.
Moving forward, HotHardware will be utilizing
Windows Millenium as our mainstream OS with
Windows 2000Pro for special interests like SMP
performance analysis etc.
Here
utilizing nVidia's 7.17 reference drivers, the
Pentium 4 really takes off. We set this test
up with two things in mind. First, drop the
resolution down as well as color depth, so that we
"isolate" the processor as much as
possible. Next, we kept the other settings
at "High Quality". Our reasoning
for this is that most folks don't play this game
at the "fastest" or even
"normal" setting. So, we wanted to
take some realistic numbers at the "high
quality" setting, since we feel it is
preferred.
At
any level, the Pentium 4 drives Quake3 and other
"bandwidth" intensive games, very
well. A boost of over 30+ fps while
over-clocking the P4, is nothing to sneeze at
either.
Since
this is an "informational" article, we
will reserve our rating of the Asus P4T, for the
full review that we will have posted on
HotHardware shortly. We would like to
comment here with a few words on the ability of
the Pentium 4 with respect to over-clocking and
what you can expect with its road ahead in clock
speeds.
The
P4 shows nothing but promise to us. With
stock cooling and a "first round"
motherboard, we were able to take this processor
237MHz. over its specified clock speed and with
complete stability. During our testing, we
did not experience a lock up of any kind and we
also "burned" the system in with a Prime
"torture test" for hours, however the
system wouldn't crash. Moving forward, Intel
should be able to easily release Pentium 4
processors within the 1.7 to 2GHz. range at the
very least, if our testing paints a picture of
things to come. The tradition will continue
as well. Hobbyists and power users will be
able to squeez every ounce of performance they can
from their processor, thanks in part to
motherboard manufacturers like Asus,
who give us the ability to do so.
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