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Posted: June 22th, 2001 Written by: Tuan "Solace" Nguyen Benchmarks BAPCo SysMark 2000 Although it’s not new, SysMark is still a decent synthetic test for multiple application loads.  The gains you see are pretty much predictable. The Pentium 4 doesn’t seem to gain a lot of boost when running business applications. SysMark isn’t a heavy duty business application benchmark and the apps that it simulates will have already been running very fast on a slower Pentium 4. If you’re a frequent user of Microsoft Office applications, you’ll be very happy with a Pentium 4 or any other 1GHz+ machines. With the latest patch for Adobe’s Photoshop, you’ll also find performance gains in Photoshop too. ZD Content Creation Winstone 2000  Content applications gain quite a boost with the overclock thanks to the increase FSB speeds and also a wider margin in CPU speed. A lot of productivity applications will benefit from wider/faster buses and high bandwidth RAM. If you’re doing loads of database processing, having lots of memory will help performance in a big way. ZD High-End Winstone 99  High-end applications improve in performance just like I expected, accordingly. The numbers that are shown here are influenced almost entirely from raw MHz power. Because of its long pipelines, the Pentium 4 is able to scale to speeds not reachable by any other processor currently available. Because there’s a lot of unsequential and mixed instructions flowing through the pipelines, branch misprediction occur more frequently and therefore you don’t have the same percentage improvement as in Content Creation. |
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