The Final Battle: P4/2400 vs. Athlon XP 2100+ (2400+)

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Intel Hardware (Socket 478)
Processors 1133 MHz FSB - 533 MHz Memory Clock Pentium 4A 2.6 GHz (2666 MHz)Pentium 4A 2.5 GHz (2533 MHz)Pentium 4A 2.4 GHz (2400 MHz)
Processors 2100 MHz FSB - 400 MHz Memory Clock Pentium 4A 2.4 GHz (2400 MHz)Pentium 4A 2.2 GHz (2200 MHz)Pentium 4A 2.0 GHz (2000 MHz)Pentium 4A 1.8 GHz (1800 MHz)Pentium 4A 1.6 GHz (1600 MHz)Pentium 4 2.0 GHz (2000 MHz)Pentium 4 1.9 GHz (1900 MHz)Pentium 4 1.8 GHz (1800 MHz)Pentium 4 1.7 GHz (1700 MHz)Pentium 4 1.6 GHz (1600 MHz)Pentium 4 1.5 GHz (1500 MHz)Pentium 4 1.4 GHz (1400 MHz)
Motherboard ABIT TH7II (I850) Revision: 1.0 Bios: TH7H_38
Memory 1 2x 256 MB RDRAM, PC800, 400 MHz, 40ns, Infineon
Memory 2 4x 128 MB RDRAM, PC1066, 533 MHz, 35ns, Samsung
AMD Hardware (Socket 462)
Processors 1133 MHz FSB - 166 MHz Memory Clock Athlon XP 2100+ (1733 MHz)Athlon XP 2000+ (1666 MHz)Athlon XP 1900+ (1600 MHz)Athlon XP 1800+ (1533 MHz)Athlon XP 1700+ (1466 MHz)Athlon XP 1600+ (1400 MHz)Athlon XP 1500+ (1333 MHz)Athlon 1400 (1400 MHz)
Processors 2100 MHz FSB - 133 MHz Memory Clock Athlon 850 (850/100/133 MHz)
Motherboard Soltek SL-75DRV5 (KT333) Revision: 1.0 Bios:
Memory 512 MB DDR-SDRAM, CL2.0, 166 MHz, PC2700, Winbond
General Hardware
Graphics Card GeForce 3 Ti 500 (MSI MS-8854)Memory: 64 MB DDR-SDRAMMemory Clock: 500 MHzChip Clock: 240 MHz
Hard Drive 40 GB, 5T040H4, MaxtorUDMA100, 7200 rpm, 2 MB Cache
Drivers & Software
Graphics Driver Detonator 4 Series V28.32
VIA KT333A Driver 4 in 1 Version: 4.38(2)v(a)
DirectX Version 8.1
Intel 850 Driver V 3.20.1008
Intel IAA Driver V 2.0
OS Windows XP, Build 2600
Benchmarks & Settings
Quake III Arena Retail Version 1.16command line = +set cd_nocd 1 +set s_initsound 0Graphics detail set to 'Normal'Benchmark using 'Q3DEMO1'
3DMark2000 Pro Version 1.1 Build 340 - default Benchmark
3DMark2001 Pro Build 200 - default Benchmark
PCMark2002 Pro only CPU and Memory Bench (no Video Memory)
SiSoft Sandra 2001 Professional Version 2001.3.7.50
Newtek Lightwave Version 7bRendering Bench SKULL_HEAD_NEWEST.LWS
mpeg4 encoding Xmpeg 4.2aDivX 5.0 ProCompression/quality: FastestData Rate: 780 kbitFormat: 720x576 Pixel@25 fps150 MB VOB-Datei, no Audio
Studio 7 Version 7.11267 (MPEG 2)
Sysmark 2002 no Patch
Lame Lame 3.91 MMX, SSE, SSE 2, 3DNow!
WinACE 2.11, 178 MB Wave File, Best Compression,Dictonary 4096 kB
Cinema 4D XL R7 Version V7.303 Rendering: 1024x768
3D Studio Max Version 4.2Rendering of the "Rabbit" scene800x600 10 Images