AMD's Athlon64 4000 and FX-55: Nails in the P4 EE's Coffin?

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Intel Processors (Socket 775)
200 MHz FSB (Dual DDR400)Pentium 4 EE 3.40 GHz (3400 MHz 12-8/512/2048 kB)Pentium 4 560 (3200 MHz 12-16/1024 kB)Pentium 4 550 (3200 MHz 12-16/1024 kB)Pentium 4 540 (3200 MHz 12-16/1024 kB)Pentium 4 530 (3200 MHz 12-16/1024 kB)
Intel Processors (Socket 478)
200 MHz FSB (Dual DDR400)Pentium 4 EE 3.40 GHz (3400 MHz 12-8/512/2048 kB)Pentium 4 EE 3.20 GHz (3200 MHz 12-8/512/2048 kB)
200 MHz FSB (Dual DDR400)Pentium 4 3.40E GHz (3200 MHz 12-16/1024 kB)Pentium 4 3.20E GHz (3200 MHz 12-16/1024 kB)Pentium 4 3.00E GHz (3000 MHz 12-16/1024 kB)
200 MHz FSB (Dual DDR400)Pentium 4 3.40 GHz (3400 MHz 12-8/512 kB)Pentium 4 3.20 GHz (3200 MHz 12-8/512 kB)Pentium 4 3.00 GHz (3000 MHz 12-8/512 kB)
AMD Processors (Socket 939)
200 MHz FSB (DUAL DDR400)Athlon FX-55 (2600 MHz 128/1024 kB)Athlon FX-53 (2400 MHz 128/1024 kB)Athlon FX-51 (2200 MHz 128/1024 kB)Athlon 64 4000+ (2400 MHz 128/1024 kB)Athlon 64 3800+ (2400 MHz 128/512 kB)Athlon 64 3500+ (2200 MHz 128/512 kB)
Memory
Intel Pentium 4(Socket 775)2 x 512 MB - DDR2-533 (266 MHz)Infineon 64T64000GU3.7ATimings : CL 3.0-3-3-4Voltage : 1.9 V
Intel Pentium 4(Socket 478)4 x 256 MB - DDR400 (200 MHz)Corsair TwinX CMX256A-3200LL XMS32005 V1.1Timings : CL 2.0-2-2-5Voltage : 2.5 V
AMD Athlon 64AMD Athlon 64 FX(Socket 939)2 x 512 MB - DDR400Corsair CMX512-3500C2 XMS3502 V1.1Timings : CL 2.0-2-2-5Voltage : 2.7 V
Intel-Motherboards
Intel 925X (Sockel 775)MSI MS-7053 Rev. 1.0BIOS : V1.2 (09/15/2004)Network : Broadcom BCM7515KFB Gigabit (PCI-E)
Intel 875P (Sockel 478)Asus P4C800-E Deluxe, Rev. 1.02BIOS : 1017 (07/22/2004)Network : Intel 82547EI GBit (CSA)
AMD-Motherboards
VIA K8T800 (Socket 939)ASUS A8V, Rev. 1.02BIOS : 1006 (06/17/2004)Network : Marvell Yukon Gbit
Common Hardware
Sound CardTerratec Aureon 7.1 Space96.00 kHz sample rate
Graphics CardAGPGigabyte GV-N68T256DGPU : NVIDIA Geforce 6800 GT (350 MHz)Memory : 256 MB DDR-SDRAM (500 MHz)
Graphics CardPCIENVIDIA Reference CardGPU : NVIDIA Geforce 6800 GT (350 MHz)Memory : 256 MB DDR-SDRAM (500 MHz)
Hard Drive (AMD System)Promise FastTrak S150 TX2plus (Bios : 1.00.0.37)2 x SATA Maxtor 7B250S00 (Raid 0)250 GB / 16 MB Cache / 7200 rpm
DVD/CD-ROMMSI MS-8216D 16x DVD
Software
Intel ChipsetV 6.0.1.1002
Nvidia nForceNvidia V5.10
Nvidia Graphic AGP and PCIEDetonator 61.77
VIA ChipsetVIA Hyperion 4 in 1 V4.53
DirectXVersion : 9.0c (4.09.0000.0904)
OSWindows XP, Build 2600 SP2

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