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PC Mark 2004
PCMark04 is the latest version of the popular PCMark series. PCMark04 is an application-based benchmark and a premium tool for measuring overall PC performance. It uses portions of real applications instead of including very large applications or using specifically created code. This allows PCMark04 to be a smaller installation as well as to report very accurate results. As far as possible, PCMark04 uses public domain applications whose source code can be freely examined by any user.
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The results compare your average 2.8 GHz Pentium 4 system (Intel 865 chipset) up-to today's new mainboard and CPU. The Intel nForce 4 SLI INTEL platform clearly is favored over AMD systems with this benchmark. The scores in favor of Intel CPU's can relate to two things, Hyper-threading technology and the other, clock for clock performance.
Bare in mind that this Athlon 64 4000+ CPU runs at 2400 MHz and the FX-57 at 2800 MHz while our fastest Intel silicon handles 4000 MHz. I did not expect this outcome though, so I checked other articles. And they are on par with our findings. Really nice scores in favor of the Intel Edition platform though.
Let's have a look at the memory results measured with Everest...
Everest Home Edition
EVEREST Home Edition is a freeware hardware diagnostics and memory benchmarking solution for home PC users.It offers accurate hardware information and diagnostics capabilities, including online features, memory benchmarks, hardware monitoring, and low-level hardware information. EVEREST Home Edition is optimized for Microsoft Windows XP and Windows Server 2003 operating systems, and it fully supports the XP look & feel.
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Everest is a tool that grows slowly on me, at the last minute I decided to include the results. Synthetic numbers simply are the best way to show you the exact difference between timing sand frequencies. Something that is very hard to show with games. Hey look at the read speed, I explained to you that memory has several selectable dividers. Flipping one switch in the BIOS instantly boosts memory performance. You'll need capable memory of course.
Charming and accurate reports are offered by a little benchmark suite especially for memory in this tool.
