Intel's Pentium 4 3.06GHz: Hyper-Threading on Desktops

Test Platforms - Where is Granite Bay?

For our Athlon XP testbed we're able to bring you performance results based on a final nForce2 motherboard - the ASUS A7N8X Deluxe.

Unfortunately boards still aren't widely available but we're so close to retail availability that we decided to continue to run Athlon XP benchmarks with the new nForce2 chipset. Much of the Athlon XP's competitiveness in the business, content creation & high-end tests is due to the advantages offered by the nForce2 platform. For more information on exactly where these performance boosts come from be sure to read our latest nForce2 article.

For the Pentium 4 3.06GHz testbed everyone is expecting the CPU to be paired up with Intel's Granite Bay chipset unfortunately the chipset isn't officially out yet. Intel's forthcoming dual-channel DDR platform for the Pentium 4 will be released very soon and we're actually currently working on a roundup of the first Granite Bay boards, but until the chipset is officially released we'll be bringing you performance scores from Intel's own 850E motherboard paired with PC1066 RDRAM.

And finally we're able to get to our usual suite of performance tests, here we go…

All Pentium 4 3.06GHz tests were run with Hyper-Threading enabled.