System Setup

System Setup

Intel Pentium 4 3.2GHz Prescott (800MHz bus)
Intel Pentium 4 3.2GHz Northwood (800MHz bus)
Intel Pentium 4 3.4GHz Extreme Edition (800MHz bus)
Intel Pentium 4 3.2GHz Extreme Edition (800MHz bus)
AMD Athlon 64 FX-51
AMD Athlon 64 3400+
AMD Athlon 64 3200+

Intel D875PBZ 875P Motherboard
Gigabyte K8VNXP Socket 754 K8T800 Motherboard
ASUS SK8V Socket 940 K8T800 Motherboard

1GB Mushkin Registered ECC 2-3-2 PC3200 DDR Memory (2x512MB)
1GB Corsair Pro Series 3-4-4 PC4000 DDR Memory (2x512MB)

GeForce FX 5950 Ultra 256MB
Detonator 53.03

34GB Western Digital Raptor (10,000RPM, 8MB cache)

Windows XP Professional with Service Pack 1

DirectX 9.0b

Desktop resolution 1024x768, 32-bit color, 85Hz refresh

All power saving options were turned off, as were the Automatic Update and System Restore services. Graphics options under the ‘Performance’ tab were all disabled for maximum performance.

Benchmarks

PC Magazine Business Winstone 2004
PC Magazine Content Creation Winstone 2004
SiSoft Sandra 2004
Futuremark PCMark04
Futuremark 3D Mark03 v.340
Novalogic Comanche 4
Enlight X2: The Threat Rolling Demo
Square Enix Final Fantasy XI Benchmark 2
Epic Unreal Tournament 2003 Demo
Ubisoft IL2 Sturmovik: Forgotten Battles
id Software Quake III v.1.32
Yeti Studios Gun Metal Demo

Lab Notes

Aside from our compatibility testing, we also tried to get the 3.2GHz Prescott overclocked. Unfortunately, only three of the motherboards we tested would actually boot with Prescott, and two of them wouldn’t properly pick up the chip’s clock multiplier, leaving only Intel’s revised D875PBZ with which to test. Needless to say, we didn’t have much luck beyond Intel’s four percent “burn-in” mode.