Athlon 64

[Arminiusc]

here is a link to a benchmark of the Athlon 64 on a message board
http://www.tbreak.com/forums/showthr...threadid=19317

[Arminiusc]

Found another link that is going to have information on the Athlon FX later today or tommorrow.
http://www.hardwareanalysis.com
They have a short article right now but they are working on a bigger review that people might be interested in.

[Madcat]

Should prove quite interesting. :D

[numibesi]

WOW !!!

I really would love to have one of those, did i saw right?!?!?!

A64Bit at 2.4Ghz
3DMARK2001 -> 24825 pts

P4 at 4,1Ghz
3DMARK2001 -> 24747

"ALWAY'S BOMBATING....."

[Bionic_Redneck]

3dmark is a bogus benchmark for real cpu power it's all based on the video card and memory bandwidth. prime or the dnet clients would be much better for that.

[Arminiusc]

3dmark isnt totally bogus... it is a good starting point for comparing... but you do need more specific tests. I cant wait to see more benchmarks on the 64 to see if I need to think about upgrading.

[Bionic_Redneck]

Prime is the client for grimps and typically P4 are the fastest because of SSE2. I would like to see how well the cpu does. I can't really think of any DC client that really take avantage of SSE2 other than that .

3dmark has it's use but it iwas meant for benchmarking video cards maybe passmark would be more useful to decide if you wanted to upgrade. Doesn't sissoft sandra have a benchmarking section in it?

[Arminiusc]

I think sysoft only benches floating point and integer... not sure which method they use...

[Arminiusc]

http://www20.tomshardware.com/cpu/20...charts-23.html
This is a link to a page of an older article at tomshardware that shows 3dmark does help determine cpu power... even though you have a fancy video card, the cpu still needs to be able to keep up. They used a radeon 9700 pro and 512mb ram in all the systems they compared.
I found it interesting to see how all the new cpus+m/b's compared to the old cpus+m/b's.

[Bionic_Redneck]

hey if you take a close look at that graph it proves my point. 3dmark is all about the video card and memory bandwidth. They have a athlon 1000 w/ 133 sdram out doing a athlon 1200 /w 100 sdram. also thats why athlon64 does so well even though it's has some awesome power it also is no slacker in the memory bardwidth area eithier.