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(Post a comment) » Eternal Battle Day 4: Ultimate Gaming PC versus Ultimate Workstation BenchmarksIt’s the main event: Performance Analysis. We put our flagship FX-57 machine against our Dual Opteron 252’s through our gaming, digital photography, and digital video benchmark suite... and a new challenger arrives: the AMD Athlon 64 X2 4200+ with a single NVIDIA 7800 GTX |  Previous news article | Back to main news | Next news article  |
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Anonymous at 05:21am 07/4/2005
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HI guys,
I really enjoyed reading the articles, but what are you really
testing, where are the things that are equel, so we can see if we
are moving forward to backward?
Use the set of graphics cards or the same CPU's, inbetween we get
this thing "Value for money" but when you are buidling a
workstation, the money you spend on hardware are saved on the man
behind it many times.
Also when testing workstations, it is great you have taken the top
of the line card, and when testing games card you are happy to drop
a few steps down the laddar.
7800 vs Quadro FX 4400 (sli and single)
6600 vs Quadro FX 3400
etc... or 7800 vs FX3400 or a reference to it should you have tested
this previously
nit picking here I know - I think you guys have done a fantastic
job! I'll go read the next one with great anticipation
thanks
Henrik
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suryad at 10:44am 07/1/2005
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So I guess if we had all the money in the world, we should wait for
multi-core FX procs then...
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Tarx (View my Profile) at 09:25pm 06/30/2005
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Yeah, the X2 4400+ OC to 2.6GHz or more (seems to be fairly easy)
looks like the best dual core choice. But lots of demand for this
CPU and prices out of line for that CPU.
Newegg prices:
A64 Venice 3000+ $146
X2 4200+ $585
X2 4400+ $719
X2 4600+ $812
AMD tray prices
A64 Venice 3000+ $149
X2 4200+ $537
X2 4400+ $581
X2 4600+ $803
Notice anything?
The X2 4600+ and A64 3000+ prices are about the same between
Newegg's and AMD's price list.
There is a 9% markup on the 4200+, but a huge 24% markup on the
4400+ !!
I wonder if AMD will drop the price on the 4200+ but not the 4400+
in the next price cut...
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dbb970s at 08:10pm 06/30/2005
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Loaded up Thresh's Firingsquad back in the day on a 28.8 modem.
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dbb970s at 08:08pm 06/30/2005
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If you're in the market to build the ultimate desktop computer,
that's a nice combo to go with. All the multimedia encoding
performace you'll ever need along with the best gaming performace
AMD can offer, and a bit of futureproofing with dual core and 64bit
to boot.
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xpax at 03:48pm 06/30/2005
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I was thinking about that too -- the StorageReview leaderboard
results I saw. But I couldn't tell what interface they were using,
it looked like it might've been straight SATA. Thus I didn't want
to mention it.
Toms also had a review of it, but there's seemed to be for the
standard ATA133 version of the drive.
I too find it incredidbly hard to believe that SATA-II alone
accounts for the huge performance difference. I've never seen any
difference when a new interface was released, at least not until two
generations of drives came out that used the new interface.
While the sheer aerial density of the T7K250 may provide it some
advantage in terms of sequential read/write speed, on a moderately
fragmented drives (as most peoples are, if not more than moderately)
the 5ms seek time provided by the Raptor is going to make up for the
difference.
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TooNice at 02:29pm 06/30/2005
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Interesting article overall.
However, while I agree the T7K250 are great drives (I won't even
question their reliability any more than any other SATA drives), I
wonder if SATA-II can really make such a significant difference as
to put it ahead of the Raptor in real life application. I don't know
that much about SATA-II, but changes in interface has traditionally
done very little to boost a drive's actual performance. And, looking
at storagereview's performance database comparison, the Raptor is
better than the 7K250 in just about every category.
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Anonymous at 02:14pm 06/30/2005
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I used to read Firingsquad on a 33k modem and have loved it since
them. However, the editor (if there is one) needs to keep a closer
eye on grammar and punctuation.
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GX-Brandon at 01:57pm 06/30/2005
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I think that's just Alan's excitment of being able to do all this
that you're reading. It's been quite a bit of work assembling it
all, writing, testing, etc, this series of articles has been in the
works since the first week of May now.
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frontliner at 12:30pm 06/30/2005
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good read, but with several mistakes and "could do
betters"
for instance, page 11, you kept quoting the X2, but all i saw was
FX55 FX57, 252 setup, and an A54 3500+??
Where was teh x2 in that whole testing pages? Where was the Opteron
275 setup? Whats an A54?
What system did you use for the raid tests? Why "reference
scores" and not actual test scores? Why no raid raptor scores?
So if you didn't pick and choose some machines on different
benchmarks, quoted your setups right, and better information (like
listing at the beginning a rundown of each component in each system
for reference). Then i would call this a GREAT article.
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