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P4 2.4B-2.4C with 865PE-875P vs AXP 2500+ with nForce2

CPU by Zroc @ 2003-05-12

With the newly released Springdale (865PE) and Canterwood (875P) motherboards and 800FSB P4?s, intel has taken a huge leap in both stock speed and overclockability. Will this crush the competition - the very affordable nForce2 + Barton combo - or are PAT, Hyperthreading, integrated S-ATA, and Gigabit lan just buzz words?

> Barton at 2 and 2.4GHz

Barton at 2000 and 2400MHz...

The left two columns are at 2000, to see what the 200 FSB brought to the party, and the right two columns to see what the extra 400MHz of clockspeed is giving up. The total gain from 2000/133 to 2400/200 is simply delicious.
Just like last time, notice that column 2 versus column 3.

The push to 200 FSB gave me much greater results in everything but Comanche (a VERY CPU dependant benchmark) than the raw 400MHz of clockspeed did (column 1 versus 3, for those in the back of the class).
2400MHz was everything 2.0v and the hair dryer could give me. And 200 FSB was a good as I could pull off with these timings in dual-channel.

The Numbers:
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The Graphs:
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I happen to like dual-channel...it seems a tad bit more responsive to me in actual use. Still and yet, let's take a look at single-channel. Last time, we figured out dual-channel was worth about 9-10 points of FSB...

SC vs DC action next ->

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