Northwood 3.06Ghz benchmark results!!!!!

[ManojM]

Here you go guys.

Nothing overclocked in my system as yet (not even the Radeon 9700).

I am using the Asus P4PE Deluxe by the way. I badly need a Granite Bay motherboard!!!!

Sandra 2003:
http://www.tech-pc.net/manoj.jpg

3DMark 2001 SE:

Northwood 3.06Ghz without HT and Radeon 9700
= 15759 3DMarks

http://service.madonion.com/compare?2k1=5111048


Northwood 3.06Ghz with HT and Radeon 9700
= 15810 3DNarks

http://service.madonion.com/compare?2k1=5111036


Quake III (1.30 patch and running Demo Four timedemo):

Northwood 3.06Ghz without HT and Radeon 9700 at 1600 by 1200 32bit with max settings all the way = 204.4 fps

Northwood 3.06Ghz with HT and Radeon 9700 at 1600 by 1200 32bit with max settings all the way = 204.7 fps


Comanche 4 at 1600 by 1200 32bit with max settings:

Northwood 3.06Ghz without HT and Radeon 9700 = 58.49 fps

Northwood 3.06Ghz with HT and Radeon 9700 = 58.30 fps


Unreal Tournament 2003 at 1600 by 1200 32bit with max settings all the way:

Northwood 3.06Ghz without HT and Radeon 9700
Flyby = 105.781
Botmatch = 70.304

Northwood 3.06Ghz with HT and Radeon 9700
Flyby = 105.678
Botmatch = 70.160

So as you can see HT does nothing for gaming performance now.

However, AMD's favorite benchmark Sandra 2003, does have a boost in performance.

 

[Yeti101]

How'd you get your hands on a 3.06? , lets see some OC'ing with that bad boy

 

[ManojM]

I bought it yesterday for $650.

I will not overclock it so soon. No point to do that now.

I want the excitement to last longer.

I think the Northwood 3.06Ghz is not worth the price tag. Just my opinion.

HT does nothing for games for now and a similar AthlonXP 2700+ with the nForce 2 and Radeon 9700, has similar performance.

 

[Abhoth]

Originally posted by: ManojM
I bought it yesterday for $650.

I will not overclock it so soon. No point to do that now.

I want the excitement to last longer.

I think the Northwood 3.06Ghz is not worth the price tag. Just my opinion.

HT does nothing for games for now and a similar AthlonXP 2700+ with the nForce 2 and Radeon 9700, has similar performance.

Wow, and ouch... but cool
Why OC... not at that price! Maybe a few gentle tweaks and twitches... ;-)
That's why we buy AMD and they're better anyway... muuuaaahhhhhhh
Yeah, HT will be taken advantage of on the app side but takes time...
Thx for the reporting though for certain.............! Enjoy!

 

[OmnipotentSpleen]

hey manoj! long time no see! this is Spleen from Hardware-Pacers...i'm surprised to see you here

benchmarks look awsome, altho it's odd that HT didn't boost your score just a little bit more.

as it stands, intel is really starting to impress me with the pentium4. the pricing is getting quite a bit better also. I'm still a penny-pinching amd kid though

 

[Scottee]

I always laugh at 3d benchmarks. Having 200 fps doesn't help squat unless you've got a monitor that has a refresh rate of 200Hz. Otherwise, as soon as it goes past 85 fps, it's useless.

 

[ManojM]

Originally posted by: Scottee
I always laugh at 3d benchmarks. Having 200 fps doesn't help squat unless you've got a monitor that has a refresh rate of 200Hz. Otherwise, as soon as it goes past 85 fps, it's useless.

That is why I wonder why even bother looking at the GeforceFX 5800 Ultra when the Radeon 9700 is pretty good already.

We should just stop visiting hardware sites from now on and don't bother about the new hardware releasing soon. Just wait for games and get on with our daily lives. Either at work or at school.

 

[rIpTOr]

Originally posted by: ManojM

Originally posted by: Scottee
I always laugh at 3d benchmarks. Having 200 fps doesn't help squat unless you've got a monitor that has a refresh rate of 200Hz. Otherwise, as soon as it goes past 85 fps, it's useless.

That is why I wonder why even bother looking at the GeforceFX 5800 Ultra when the Radeon 9700 is pretty good already.

We should just stop visiting hardware sites from now on and don't bother about the new hardware releasing soon. Just wait for games and get on with our daily lives. Either at work or at school.

Its not the same. The GeForce FX will probably hold stronger than the Radeon 9700 Pro (Like the 9700 Pro to the GeForce4 Ti)

 

[rIpTOr]

Northwood 3.06Ghz without HT and Radeon 9700
Flyby = 105.781
Botmatch = 70.304

Is that all? Those flyby scores are looking very low. I get 150flyby @ 1024x768 and 60fps botmach no matter the resolution with an Athlon XP 2000 @ 1.76GHz/GeForce4 Ti4400 You might want to disable HyperThreading.

Anyway do you have another $650 lying around? I promise to be your friend

 

[DAPUNISHER]

Thanx for posting the data Could you just for sh*ts and giggles try something like DVD2SVCD or the like and playing UT2K3 simultaneously and post comments with both HT on and off? I ask because I use that proggie a lot and though I play Ghost Recon more than UT2K3 it would be nice to see if HT does indeed make doing both on 1 box substantially better because I now have to take away from both of my boxes SETI power to do both adequately and that is unacceptable for a SETI lover like myself. Thanx either way, wether you perform such a test or not.