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- Date:
- Tuesday , July 02, 2002
- Author:
- Kyle Bennett
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Intel / Asus Dual Channel DDR
An ASUS sneak peek at what dual channel DDR will have to offer us on Intel's upcoming chipset.
Content & Biz Benchmarks:
Business Winstone measures a PC's overall performance by running today's top-selling Windows-based 32-bit applications. Latest release: Business Winstone 2001 version 1.0 (11/07/2000). The Business Winstone tests are "market-centered" tests. Business applications are the popular applications employed by most users every day. Their final list of ten business productivity applications includes: Five Microsoft Office 2000 applications (Access, Excel, FrontPage, PowerPoint, and Word); Microsoft Project 98; Lotus Notes R5; NicoMak WinZip; Norton AntiVirus; and Netscape Communicator.
VIA's P4X333 still retains the crown here, but our Dually certainly has beat out the rest of the pack. Oddly, this is the only benchmark where the P4X333 shows dominance and we are not yet sure why. Dually DDR certainly is looking promising.
Content Creation Winstone 2002 is a system-level, application-based benchmark that measures a PC's overall performance when running top, Windows-based, 32-bit, content creation applications on Windows 98, Windows 2000, Windows Me, or Windows XP. Content Creation Winstone 2002 uses the following applications: Adobe Photoshop 6.0.1, Adobe Premiere 6.0, Macromedia Director 8.5, Macromedia Dreamweaver UltraDev 4, Microsoft Windows Media Encoder 7.01.00.3055, Netscape Navigator 6/6.01, Sonic Foundry Sound Forge 5.0c (build 184).
Our Winstone Content shows a much different side of the Dually DDR. RDRam even of PC800 speed here shows to deliver more performance for these applications.
SysMark 2002 incorporates the following Internet Content Creation and Office Productivity applications.
Office Productivity: Microsoft Word 2002, Microsoft Excel 2002, Microsoft PowerPoint 2002, Microsoft Outlook 2002, Microsoft Access 2002, Netscape Communicator® 6.0, Dragon NaturallySpeaking Preferred v.5, WinZip 8.0, and McAfee VirusScan 5.13.
While certainly not a mirror image of the previous Office benchmark, it is more closely to scale and Dually DDR is showing almost equal performance to the PC1066 again with P4X333 coming in with a tie.
Internet Content Generation: Adobe Photoshop® 6.01, Adobe Premiere® 6.0, Microsoft Windows Media Encoder 7.1, Macromedia Dreamweaver 4, and Macromedia Flash 5.
Much the opposite of what we saw in our Winstone Content benchmark. This time Dually DDR shows to be the solution to use. This is of course why we run more than one manufacturer's marks.