System Setup

For our benchmarking, we used the MSI K8T Neo2 motherboard, based around the VIA K8T800 Pro chipset that was sent to us with the processors from AMD.  On our Intel system, we of course used the latest LGA775 products, which forced us to use PCIe on it and AGP on the AMD side.  However, since we are using the same graphics core, running at the same clock speeds, differences there should be small.  All other hardware remained the same. 

The benchmarks used were:

• SiSoft Sandra 2004 SP1


• AIDA32


• Cachemem


• Quake III: Arena


• Unreal Tournament 2003


• X2: The Threat


• 3D Mark 2001: SE v330


• 3DMark03


• Far Cry 1.1


• Doom 3


• PC Mark 2002


• PCMark04


• Business Winstone 2004


• Content Creation Winstone 2004


• LAME MP3 Encoding


• XMPEG / DivX Encoding


• WinRAR Compression


• CineBench 2003


• ScienceMark 2.0 Beta