Comparing Pentium4 & Athlon64 x64 Performance

We chose the Intel Pentium4 3.73GHz EE CPU (as thats the only 64-bit Intel CPU that we have) and the AMD Ahtlon64 4000+ CPU for benching. From our standard testbench, we used the nVidia 6800GT card and the Maxtor 80GB 7200RPM/8MB cache hard drive for all the tests. On the Pentium4 front, we used Intel’s 925XE Desktop board while on the AMD side, the Gigabyte nForce4 SLI board was used along with 2 x 512MB Corsair DDR400 modules with 2.0-2-2-5 timing. For the Intel setup, we used OCZ’s DDR2-666 modules with 4.0-4-4-12 timings. The lower timings on the DDR2 memory modules certainly put the Pentium4 CPUs at a slight disadvantage but unfortunately we dont have anything better for now. Also worth mentioning is that Intel doesnt have any 64-bit chipset drivers so we had to use native Windows drivers, however, nVidia has released 64-bit nForce4 drivers which were used on the AMD setup.

Comparing Pentium4 & Athlon64 x64 Performance
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