First post, by Skyscraper
This thread is about my Asus P4PE motherboard and P4 3066 CPU and how they scale with diffrent DX9 video cards.
I thought it would be intresting to see what the optimal video card would be for a P4 system from year 2002.
It is unnecessary to go for a powerful and expensive AGP card if the CPU bottlenecks it to such a degree that it dosnt give any extra performance.
First the system spec.
CPU: P4 3.06 (HT on)
Motherboard: Asus P4PE
Memory: 2x512 mb DDR
HDD: Samsung 120gb 5400 rpm
PSU: Chieftec 400w
Operating system: Windows XP SP3 fully updated and bloated, not optimized.
Everything exept the video cards and the HDD could have been bought late 2002.
I will run all benchmarks both at default speed and slightly overclocked.
The default speed will be 3100 mhz and not 3066 mhz since this is the default speed* on the Asus P4PE board.
The overclocked setting will be 23*150 = 3450 mhz.
Both settings use default voltage but the P4PE overvolts some at idle and has a impressive 0.1v vdrop when the system is loaded.
*131, 132, 133=135, 134=135, 135, 136, 137...
Here is the system on my test bench for easy access.
I will start of with some general benchmarks.
I use old benchmarks that also will run under windows 98 so I can compare against my old boxes.
Seeing how much performance improved from 1998 to 2002 is breathtaking.
Superpi 1M
PCmark 2002
Sisoft Sandra 99
New PC: i9 12900K @5GHz all cores @1.2v. MSI PRO Z690-A. 32GB DDR4 3600 CL14. 3070Ti.
Old PC: Dual Xeon X5690@4.6GHz, EVGA SR-2, 48GB DDR3R@2000MHz, Intel X25-M. GTX 980ti.
Older PC: K6-3+ 400@600MHz, PC-Chips M577, 256MB SDRAM, AWE64, Voodoo Banshee.