Our system setup prepares for the standard processor-on-processor beating that is about to commence on the following pages. Both the Intel and AMD setup used identical parts where applicable including hard drive, PSU, video card, sound card, drivers, etc. A total of 9 processors are compared against each other in almost all of our tests.
Intel Test System Setup |
CPU | Intel 660
Intel 3.73 GHz XE
Intel 3.46 GHz XE
Intel 560
Intel 3.4 GHz XE
Intel 550 |
Motherboards | Intel 925XE Reference |
Power Supply | Antec 480 watt |
Memory | 2x512MB Corsair Micro DDR2 4300C3 Pro (3-3-8 3.0) |
Hard Drive | 250 GB Maxtor 7200 RPM SATA |
Sound Card | Creative Labs Live! |
Video Card | ATI X800 XT |
Video Drivers | ATI Catalyst 4.11 |
DirectX Version | DX 9.0c |
Operating System | Windows XP w/ Service Pack 1 |
AMD Test System Setup |
CPU | Athlon 64 FX-55
Athlon 64 4000+
Athlon 64 3800+
Athlon 64 3500+ |
Motherboards | NVIDIA nForce4 Ultra Reference |
Power Supply | Antec 480 watt |
Memory | 2x512MB Corsair Micro DDR500 |
Hard Drive | 250 GB Maxtor 7200 RPM SATA |
Sound Card | Creative Labs Live! |
Video Card | ATI X800 XT |
Video Drivers | ATI Catalyst 4.11 |
DirectX Version | DX 9.0c |
Operating System | Windows XP w/ Service Pack 1 |
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
- PCMark04
- Business Winstone 2004
- Content Creation Winstone 2004
- LAME MP3 Encoding
- XMPEG / DivX Encoding
- WinRAR Compression
- CineBench 2003
- ScienceMark 2.0 Beta
