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Posted: June 22th, 2001 Written by: Tuan "Solace" Nguyen Benchmarks (cont.) 3DMark2000 CPU Marks  While it doesn’t show anything spectacular, it does show the performance trend and shows what we can expect from the next release of the Pentium 4 in general. If the only new element in the next announcement is MHz increments, we’ll be seeing about 8 to 14% in most cases. 3DMark2000   3DMark generally does quite well on Intel silicon and we see it doing well here. At these speeds, the results seem to be being held back from the graphics card that’s in use. With a GeForce3 we’ll see even more performance increases. Now some of you reading might grudge at the fact that I said “GeForce3” but the fact remains that people are buying GeForce3 video cards like mad. Quake 3 Arena with 1.25y Point Release  Everyone knows that the Pentium 4 is one mean Quake CPU and frankly, it’s not just Quake that it’s good at. It seems to be good at all Id games. Expect to see Doom 3 blaze on the Pentium 4 thanks to heavy SSE/SSE2 optimizations. Normal mode really flies along using a GeForce2 Ultra. 98.5FPS at 1600x1200 anyone? I thought so.  High Quality shows the same gains with overclocking. It looks like the Pentium 4 really shines when overclocked and used with games. The numbers above speak for themselves. |
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