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To: Petz who wrote (151584)	2/24/2005 3:16:57 AM
From: eracer	Read Replies (1) of 275872

Re: Results: PovRay: 0%, Kribibench +12%, DivX +4%, RAR 0% The benchmarks looked rather good considering the huge latency hit of 4-4-4-12 DDR2-533 versus 2-2-2-5 DDR333. Athlon 64 gains nothing with dual channel versus single channel on PovRay. Kribibench and DivX gains are what Athlon 64 gains from going from single channel to dual channel. RAR is bandwidth and latency dependent benchmark. What was gained in bandwidth appeared to be lost due to the extra latency. The 3DMark03 CPU test only showed a 2.3% gain, but that test is also latency sensitive. Take a looksee: anandtech.com and surrounding pages. Other than Winbench, there are very few applications where Pentium M outperforms its big-brother Pentium 4. A 3.6GHz Pentium 4 would look pretty good compared to a 2GHz Athlon 3200+ as well. With no Dothan on the desktop and little competition from AMD in notebooks Intel doesn't have to worry about nitpicky things like higher frequencies and competitive pricing. Take a look at the next page and you'll find that an equally clocked Athlon 64 outperforms Pentium M in 4 out of 6 categories of applications and ties in the other 2. Now take a desktop Dothan DDR2-533 motherboard and OCZ DDR2-533 3-2-2-8 and see: Business/General Use go from A64 to Tie Multitasking Content Creation go from Tie to P-M Video Creation/Photo Editing go from A64 to Tie Audio/Video Encoding possibly go from A64 to Tie Gaming go from A64 to Tie 3D Rendering go from Tie to P-M Professional Applications stay with A64 Pentium-M doesn't look bad at all in terms of clock-for-clock performance. Too bad for Intel and Intel overclockers no one is making a dual channel DDR motherboard for it. Dothan would love DDR-400 2-2-2-5.

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