AMD's Athlon 64 X2 4800+ & 4200+ Dual Core Performance Preview
by Anand Lal Shimpi on May 9, 2005 12:02 AM EST- Posted in
- CPUs
Multitasking Scenario 2: File Compression
For our next test, we simulated what would happen if we performed two disk intensive tasks at the same time: zipping the source code to Firefox while importing a 260MB PST file into Outlook 2003. You'll note that this is a slightly modified version of the test that we originally created; we modified the test by archiving the Firefox source instead of a single smaller file. The reason for this is that we wanted a more realistic test (from a file size/count perspective) as well as the ability to better discern between contenders.We ran the same Firefox and iTunes tasks from the last test again, and then did the following:
1) Open Outlook.
2) Start importing 260MB PST.
3) Start WinRAR.
4) Archive Firefox source.
WinRAR remained the application in focus during this test.
Here, we looked at two metrics: how long it took WinRAR to compress our test file, and how many emails were imported into Outlook during the time that WinRAR was archiving. Let's have a look at the results:
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Ender17 - Monday, May 9, 2005 - link
Would have been nice to have a 2.8GHz Pentium D so you could get a sense of how the Intel chips scaled with an increase in the clock speed.RadeonGuy - Monday, May 9, 2005 - link
Great Article Anandvery depthful
ashegam - Monday, May 9, 2005 - link
I'm having a woodygasm :)nourdmrolNMT1 - Monday, May 9, 2005 - link
looks very promisingMIKE
potato pc - Sunday, October 20, 2019 - link
I just looked into this article because my destkop in 2019 on windows 10 has it.man its insane how dual cores were powerful at this time.
brug69 - Wednesday, September 16, 2020 - link
so crazy that this was 15 years ago, and yall never had a clue that there would ever be 64 core processors today...DARK_BG - Wednesday, September 16, 2020 - link
Hah I was reading this review 15 years ago and with their prices back then I was only dreaming about the 1024kb dual core ones :) Well I took it 3 years later second hand Athlon 64X2 4800+ :D Still working on Asus A8N-E with a ATI HD4850 now used by my grandfather just to read the news :)ReneHerrera - Friday, June 10, 2022 - link
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