Northwood 2.0A benchmark (GamePC)

[khha4113]

<A HREF="http://www.gamepc.com/reviews/hardware_review.asp?review=p42a&page=1&mscssid=&tp" target="_new">http://www.gamepc.com/reviews/hardware_review.asp?review=p42a&page=1&mscssid=&tp</A>

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[somerandomguy]

It looks like the Northwood might just give AMD a run for their money as it scales up the clock speeds and gains a faster FSB (in terms of maximum performance rather than price/performance), but AMD is still on top IMO.
Looks like it would be great for some hardcore overclocking.

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[lhgpoobaa]

i would have liked to see northwood get more L1 cache to be honest... and i thought that northwood was also meant to get a better peforming FPU as well. any idea if that was implemented?

ahh well... regardless, it means cheaper chips all round when i decide to upgrade

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[Atolsammeek]

It a nice Jump for Intel. Almost Faster then amd 2000. Which could be a overclocked amd 1900. They did not say. And the test Intel did win it was not by much. But thing is we dont want Intel or Amd to be To fast then the other one. If intel or amd Had a cpu that was 50% faster and no one could get past it. The chip would cost too much to buy.

Let this war keep going With the Cpus. Its fun to watch and We learn some thing.

 

[lhgpoobaa]

yep.. and i bet that the XP goes down in price as soon as the northie is released.

one thing i missed in that review was of the northwood on the P4X266A or 645. they only did the 850 and 845D.

shame

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[jclw]

In case anyone is interested in Prestonia (P4 XEON) benchmarks:

<A HREF="http://www.whiningdog.net/reviews/PC/Prestonia18XEON/18Prestonia.htm" target="_new">http://www.whiningdog.net/reviews/PC/Prestonia18XEON/18Prestonia.htm</A>

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[somerandomguy]

Yes, it's about time Intel did a little bit of catching up...we wouldn't want AMD getting all high and mighty.

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[Matisaro]

Just read anandtech's spread on the axp2000+ versus the northwood 2200, and they were neck and neck, litterally dead even, amd won some benchmarks, p4 won others, and every time(with 1 exception on both sides) the results were less than 3-5% from eachother.


I think the northwood is a powerful cpu, as is the axp. Bravo to both companies for fighting the good fight.



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[AmdMELTDOWN]

>In case anyone is interested in Prestonia (P4 XEON) benchmarks

what a blow out but of course if it were amdzone(or any other AMDmongrel run website) they would've used the first series of marks.

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[vader1882]

didn't you see the third set of marks at the bottom of the page. it clearly shows the MP 1800+ ahead of the rest.

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[AmdMELTDOWN]

"didn't you see the third set of marks at the bottom of the page. it clearly shows the MP 1800+ ahead of the rest."

actually I didn't, your right, strike that! oh well, let this be fodder for kelledin.

"<b>AMD/VIA!</b>...you are <i>still</i> the weakest link, good bye!"

 

[lhgpoobaa]

LOL


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[vader1882]

LOL

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[somerandomguy]

OK, after reading 3 more reviews of the Northwood, I've put my opinion of it up a notch. We consumers can't do much better than when the two top processors are so close together in terms of performance.

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