System setup and notes

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Intels Pentium Extreme Edition 840 and 955X Express chipset

Hardware and Software

Test Platforms

	Intel Pentium 840 XE System	Intel Pentium 4 660/640 System	AMD Athlon 64 FX-53 System
Processor(s)	Intel Pentium Extreme Edition 840 - 3.2GHz	Intel Pentium 4 660/640 - 3.6GHz/3.2GHz	AMD Athlon 64 FX-53 - 2.4GHz
Mainboard	Intel 955X Express (Black Creek)	EPoX 5LWA+ 925XE	ABIT AX8 K8T890
Memory	1GByte (2x512MB) Micron DDR2-667 @ DDR667	1GByte (2x512MB) Crucial Ballistix DDR2-667 @ DDR533	1GByte (2x512MB) Corsair XMS3200
Memory timings	5-5-5-15	4-4-4-12	2-2-2-5 1T
Graphics Card	ATI RADEON X850 XT PE - PEG16X - CATALYST 5.3
Disk Drive	160GB WD IDE
BIOS Version	18/3/2005 Initial Release	16/3/2005	BIOS 10 - 25th February 2005
Operating System	Windows XP Professional, SP2
Mainboard Software	Intel INF Update Utility 7.0.0.1014 beta	Intel INF Update Utility 6.3.0.1007	VIA Hyperion Pro v4.55

Benchmark Software

in-house Cryptography Benchmark
Pifast Benchmark
ScienceMark 2.0 (7th February 2005)
Realstorm 2004
CINEBENCH 2003
MP3 encoding using Intel compiler and LAME 3.97a
PicCOLOR 32-bit v4.0
Kribibench v1.1.9
Microsoft Movie Maker 2.1 media encoding
ABBYY FineReader 7.0 Professional OCR
DOOM 3 Timedemo 1
3DMark05 b1.2.0 CPU test
UT2003 Bot Match

Notes

The dual-core Extreme Edition 840 will be directly compared to a couple of Pentium 4 600-series CPUs in the form of the current range-topping 660, running at 3.6GHz and sporting 2MB of L2 cache, and the 640, a 3.2GHz model that ticks along at the same clock speed as the dual-core model, albeit with only a single core. Further, an AMD Athlon 64 FX-53 is included to provide some reference numbers from an established processor powerhouse. Clock speeds were as follows:

3630.8MHz - Intel Pentium 4 660
3227.3MHz - Intel Pentium 4 640
3199.7MHz - Intel Pentium Extreme Edition 840
2416.1MHz - AMD Athlon 64 FX-53

All benchmarks were carried out at 1024x768x32 unless otherwise stated. Benchmarks were conducted three times and the highest and lowest results were discarded. Please also note that the test kit contained a pre-production Intel D955XBK motherboard whose specifications and/or performance may not reflect the full retail model's.

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   [1]· Introduction
   [2]· Dual core at the ready
   [3]· A physical look
   [4]· 955X Express
   [5]· System setup and notes
   [6]· Memory tests
   [7]· Primordia, Crypto, picCOLOR, Raytracing
   [8]· KribiBench, CINEBENCH
   [9]· Movie Maker 2.1, OCR, WAV encoding
   [10]· Gaming
   [11]· Thoughts
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