Intel Pentium 4 6xx and 3.73EE: Favoring Features Over Performance
by Anand Lal Shimpi & Derek Wilson on February 21, 2005 6:15 AM EST- Posted in
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Gaming Performance
Doom 3
Unreal Tournament 2004
Wolfenstein: Enemy Territory
An oldie but a goodie, Enemy Territory is still played quite a bit and makes for a great CPU test as today's GPUs can easily handle the rendering load of the Quake 3 based game.
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stephenbrooks - Monday, February 21, 2005 - link
The 3.73 EE was at one stage referred to as the "720" model number. Anyone hear anything more of this? The '20 means 14x multiplier but 14x(1066MHz/4) = 3.73 GHz, so if a 730 was released it would be 4 GHz and so on.sphinx - Monday, February 21, 2005 - link
I liked the way the info was put into the tables, instead of images. Just an opinion.jmke - Monday, February 21, 2005 - link
Great article @ Anandtech, like the power ratings @ LOAD ;)here's some OC results from X-Bit labs: http://www.xbitlabs.com/articles/cpu/display/penti...
I've also seen 3.0Ghz 6xx series OC to 4.3 with STOCK COOLING!!!
nourdmrolNMT1 - Monday, February 21, 2005 - link
Dranzerk, SLI is not stupid. EE is a marketing gimmick to bring money in, you do what you can do to make money. SLI is a smart thing, but back on subject. i think O/Cing has nothing to do with a processors appeal, they are doing the review for those who want to know what intel is up to, not what it can O/C.MIKE
Dranzerk - Monday, February 21, 2005 - link
EE is what SLI is to nvidia. stupid.mlittl3 - Monday, February 21, 2005 - link
Is it just me or is the EE procesors just a big scam? All of the game benchmarks show the 3.46 beating or tieing the 3.73. How can a reputable company like Intel fool consumers with that crap? I want the names of everyone who buys an EE based Dell XPC so that I can tar and feather them in the public square.I bet I can sell Amway to all those people. :)
mongoosesRawesome - Monday, February 21, 2005 - link
"What Intel is counting on is that the increase in hit rate provided by a 50% larger cache will outshine the 17% longer access to L2 cache."Should be 100% larger cache...
AtaStrumf - Monday, February 21, 2005 - link
One thing you completely left out of the conclusion, but I think you should definately add is:Don't buy Intel until they have a chipset out that will support dual core.
danidentity - Monday, February 21, 2005 - link
Nice article, but why no overclocking results? That's very dissapointing.Surely you have a P5AD2-E to test these new chips with.
nourdmrolNMT1 - Monday, February 21, 2005 - link
whoa.... i got something right.MIKE