The AthlonXP 3200+ processor is plenty fast already at stock speeds but we were interested in
seeing how high we could push this bad boy. Based on a newer stepping than the
older AthlonXP 3000+, we had some high hopes in terms of overclocking and were hoping
to hit speeds of 2.5 GHz on air cooling alone.
The processor is automatically unlocked by default in the Epox 8RGA+ reference motherboard we use for testing, so we
decided to overclock via multiplier so FSB speeds would not affect benchmarks.
Starting at 11x multiplier (2.2 GHz stock speed) I immediately raised the
3200+ to 12x which gave me an overall CPU speed of 2.4 GHz. Stability was not the
best while in Windows, however raising the CPU voltage to 1.75V helped stabilize things.
Unfortunately no matter what we did we could not get the AthlonXP 3200+ to run
at 2.5 GHz, the highest we were able to run this processor at was 2.42 GHz. A
bit disappointing considering the AthlonXP 3000+ test sample did a remarkable 2.47
GHz.
| pcstats
test system specs: |
|
|
computer hardware: |
|
| processor: |
pentium 4 3.0c*
athlonxp 3000+
athlonxp 3200+ |
| clock speed:
|
15 x 200 mhz = 3.0 ghz
13 x 166 mhz = 2.17 ghz
11 x 200 mhz = 2.2
ghz
12 x 202 mhz = 2.42 ghz |
| motherboards: |
msi 875p neo-fis2r
epox 8rga+ |
| chipsets: |
i875p
nforce2 igp |
| videocard: |
ati radeon 9700 pro |
| memory: |
2x 256mb corsair xms3500 cas2 |
| hard drive:
|
20gb maxtor diamondmax+ |
| cdrom: |
nec 52x cd-rom |
| floppy: |
panasonic 1.44mb floppy drive |
| heatsink: |
thermalright sk6 w/36cfm delta
avc sunflower |
| powersupply: |
vantec 470w stealth psu |
| software setup
|
windowsxp build 2600
intel inf
5.00.1012
catalyst 3.2 |
| workstation
benchmarks |
sysmark2002
business winstone 2002
content creation
2002
superpi
povray
sisoft sandra
2003
pcmark2002
3dmark2001se
quake
iii arena
ut2003 |
* -
hyperthreading was enabled on the pentium 4 3.0c and running for all the tests in which we compared against the amd
athlonxp 3200+.
SysMark2002 is more of an extension of SysMark2001
rather then a whole new benchmark. The applications used during testing have
been updated and most importantly for AMD users, the new SysMark2002 uses the
Windows Media Encoder 7.1 which supports the AthlonXP's SSE
instructions.
SysMark2002 uses a ton of SSE2 optimized applications in
its benchmarking suite and that's why the Pentium 4 does so well in it. Still,
without SSE2, the AthlonXP 3200+ does very well for itself!
 Winstone 2002 |
Source: Zdnet |
|
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.
Business Winstone 2002 is a system-level,
application-based benchmark that measures a PC's overall performance when
running today's top-selling Windows-based 32-bit applications on Windows 98,
Windows 2000 (SP6 or later), Windows Me, or Windows XP. Business Winstone
doesn't mimic what these packages do; it runs real applications through a series
of scripted activities and uses the time a PC takes to complete those activities
to produce its performance scores.
Things are
much more even in the Winstone 2002 based benchmarks. We see that the Pentium 4
3.0C and AthlonXP 3200+ are head to head in terms of performance
here.
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