System setup and notes
Here's a quick rundown of the test system should you wish to compare benchmark results with your own.AMD Athlon 64 Model 3000+ Clawhammer S754 CPU - 2.0GHz - 512kb L2 cache
AMD Athlon 64 Model 3200+ Clawhammer S754 CPU - 2.0GHz - 1024kb L2 cache
AMD Athlon 64 Model 3400+ Clawhammer S754 CPU - 2.2GHz - 1024kb L2 cache
Intel Pentium 4 3.0GHz Northwood S478 CPU 512kb L2 cache
Intel Pentium 4 3.2GHz Northwood S478 CPU 512kb L2 cache
Intel Pentium 4 3.4GHz Northwood S478 CPU 512kb L2 cache
Other components
DFI LANPARTY i865PE with PAT-like BIOS (19/12/2003 BIOS)
EPoX 8HDA3+ VIA K8T880 S754 motherboard (02/12/03 BIOS)
Hercules Radeon 9800XT 256MB (412/730)
IBM 40GB P-ATA hard drive
Toshiba 8x DVD
Samcheer 420w PSU
Dell P991 19" monitor
Zalman 7000Cu S478 / 754 cooler
Software
Windows XP Professional SP1
DirectX9.0b
VIA Hyperion 4.51 drivers
Intel 5.02.1002 chipset drivers
ATI CATALYST 4.1 drivers and control panel
Pifast v41 to 10m places
Lame v3.92 MP3 encoding with Razor-Lame 1.15 front-end using U2's Pop album (607MB)
Gordian Knot - XviD encoding test using first vob of Sleepy Hollow. 1433kbit/s bitrate
Kribi Bench 1.19
ScienceMark 2.0
Realstorm Raytracing benchmark 320x180x32
3DMark 2001SE v330
UT2003 Retail (Build 2225)
X2: The Threat - Rolling Demo
Comanche 4 benchmark
Call of Duty HEXUS Custom test
Quake 3 v1.30 HQ
Notes
A straight shootout betweeen AMD and Intel's top three K8 and Northwood CPUs (E.E edition excluded). That's about all there is to say, really.
An AMD Athlon 64 Model 3200+ in disguise?.
Overclocking
Testing was carried out on an EPoX 8HDA3+ VIA K8T800 motherboard. The unlocked nature of the PCI bus is an immediate stalling point. Our sample wasn't particularly receptive to increases in voltage and memory speed. 2.2GHz was stable enough for most benchmarks, although we settled for a touch below, mainly with respect to long-term stability.
