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 XP-M 2500+ Barton
Intel Celeron 2.8GHz S478 CPU - 128KB L2 cache - 100MHz FSB
AMD Athlon 64 Model 3000+ Clawhammer S754 CPU - 2.0GHz - 512kb L2 cache - 200MHz DRAM
Intel Pentium 4 2.4GHz Northwood S478 CPU - 512kb L2 cache - 200MHz FSB
Intel Pentium 4 3.0GHz Northwood S478 CPU 512kb L2 cache - 200MHz FSB
Other components
DFI LANPARTY i865PE with PAT-like BIOS (19/12/2003 BIOS)
EPoX 8HDA3+ VIA K8T880 S754 motherboard (02/12/03 BIOS)
EPoX 8RDA3G NVIDIA nForce2 Ultra S462 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
Taisol 760 S462 cooler
Software
Windows XP Professional SP1
DirectX9.0b
VIA Hyperion 4.51 drivers
NVIDIA ForceWare 3.13 driver set
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
Our sample XP-M Barton 2500+ from CPU City was tested in a proven EPoX 8RDA3G nForce2 Ultra 400 motherboard. BIOS settings were set to default, Windows XP w/SP1 installed, and CPU-Z fired up.
We had visions of a mobile Pentium 4 scenario, where the locked multiplier forces the front-side bus to become the limiting factor. The pleasing aspect was the unlocked nature of the CPU, such that one was free to choose any multiplier or FSB speed as long as it was within the CPU's scope. A few BIOS changes later.
A standard XP2500+ Barton. Please note that the voltage displayed on the CPU-Z screenshot relates to Vdd and not Vcore. The latter was left at the default 1.45v. So 1.833GHz with only 1.45v. There was certainly some promise here. Let's find out what it managed to do with moderate air cooling.
