Fred Miranda

The Athlon 64 3200+ is the surprising leader here. The fast memory latency appears to bring it even above the rest of the group. Notice also that the P4 2.8 GHz and P4 3.0 GHz perform identically. This is yet more proof that you shouldn't buy the fastest CPU if you're not ready to back it up with the fastest memory.



Once again the three CPUs are very closely matched. The 5-second improvement with the dual Opteron 246 is significant given the frequency of how often this action is run, and really shows how well the Opteron takes to symmetrical processing.