First post, by xjas
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- l33t
I've got a few different machines of similar configurations that I thought would be fun to face off against each other.
- Single P4/3.0 800FSB w/hyperthreading, socket 478/DDR1/AGP
- Dual P4/2.4 533FSB w/hyperthreading, socket 604/DDR1/AGP
- Dual P4/2.8 533FSB (alternate CPU combo for above)
- Single P4/3.0 533FSB w/hyperthreading LGA775 DDR2/PCIe
- Radeon HD3850 AGP or PCI-e (I have both versions now)
...and I can probably also get my hands on a similarly-specced Pentium-D.
I am genuinely curious which one would win out in a semi-modern, highly-multithreaded application. They all seem to have compromises. I bet either the dual 2.8 Xeons or the LGA P4 with DDR2 would come out on top overall despite the lower FSB.
Any recommendations? I'd prefer something I can just download and run (especially if it runs on a Linux LiveCD) over specific games that I have to track down, install, tweak, run some complicated timedemo, etc. 3Dmark type stuff would be ideal.
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