All of the memory settings were at the most aggressive settings and all of the resolutions were set to 640×480. Both machines were running Windows XP Professional with the newest Nvidia & VIA drivers. The 1800+ Thoroughbred in test bed 2 was overclocked to 1600MHz with a FSB of 200MHz to get a little closer to comparing with this Athlon 64 3200+ as far as FSB goes. There are some minor hardware differences in the two test beds however most of the components that would effect performance are the same.
I will be using the following benchmarks: SiSoft Sandra 2004 professional, 3DMark2001SE, Quake 3, Unreal Tournament 2003.
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Test Bed 2:
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Test Bed 1
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Test Bed 2
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SiSoft Sandra 2004 professional has many different informational modules and benchmarking tools. The first benchmark I ran from this program was the CPU benchmark which outputs the MIPS and MFLOPS for your CPU. As you can see the Athlon 64 3200+ just destroys the Athlon XP 1800+ which is attributed to some obvious factors but the addition of the SSE2 instruction set really helps.
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Athlon 64 3200+
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Athlon XP 1800+ Thoroughbred
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SiSoft Sandra 2004 professional can also benchmark the multimedia ability of your system. This benchmark will output the Integer aEMMX/aSSE and Floating-Point results from your system. With the multimedia benchmark the Athlon 64 3200+ was again faster however I was expecting to see a higher larger increase in scores between the two.
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Athlon 64 3200+
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Athlon XP 1800+ Thoroughbred
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Overall the most used benchmark in this software is probably the memory bandwidth benchmark. I used 1024MB (2×512) Corsair 3200LL which is one of their dual channel kits. The memory was set to 2-2-2-5 1T to achieve the fastest memory speeds possible. The 1800+ actually scored better however I believe this is because of the motherboards used. The Abit NF7-S is a far superior motherboard in every aspect and has many more memory tweaking options available. Because the same memory was used on both systems I’m sure that with a better motherboard for the Athlon 64 I would have gotten much higher scores.
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Athlon 64 3200+
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Athlon XP 1800+ Thoroughbred
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