Test setup and notes
Test setup
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AMD XP1700 JIUHB 0310WPMW CPU (1466MHz, 11*133)
- ABIT NF7-S v1.1 nForce2 motherboard
- ATi Radeon 9800 Pro 128MB 8x AGP
- 512MB ( 2 x 256MB) Mushkin PC3500 run at 2-6-2-2 ( dual channel)
- 61.5GB IBM 120GXP Hard Drive.
- Liteon 16x DVD
- Samcheer 420w PSU
- Samsung 181T TFT monitor
- Akasa Silver Mountain heatsink
- Sony 16x DVD
- Lian-Li PC60 aluminium case
Software
- Windows XP Professional Build 2600.xpclient.010817-1148
- DirectX9
- NVIDIA nForce2 2.03 drivers
- ATI CATALYST 3.2 drivers and control panel (6307s) for 9800 Pro
- Pifast v41 to 10m places
- Lame v3.91 MP3 encoding with Razor-Lame 1.15 front-end using U2's Pop album
- Virtual Dub 1.5.1 DVD encoding, DivX 5.03 Pro CODEC
- Hexus SETI benchmark
- 3DMark 2001SE
- UT2003 Demo (Build 2206)
- Comanche 4 benchmark
- Serious Sam 2 Demo
- Quake 3 v1.30
Notes
Our aim is to find out if there's any real merit in buying a cheaper processor in the hope of emulating and surpassing the basic speeds of high-end Athlon XPs. On paper, however, this seems to be a rather lofty aim, given that the XP1700's raw clock speed of 1466MHz is 700MHz below that of the widely available XP2700. Our discussion on the previous page seems to indicate that it's eminently possible though.
I'll attempt to find out how far this XP1700 can go with default voltage (1.5v) and at 1.65v, a safe, overclocked voltage. The stock and overclocked XP1700 will be directly compared to it running at XP2700 speeds of 2166MHz / 166FSB.
So, just to recap. The XP1700 JIUHB will be run at default speeds of 1466MHz / 133FSB / dual channel memory at DDR266. It will also be overclocked to a safe, stable limit. Speaking of overclocking, let's find out how good this particular CPU is.
