Pentium 4 3.46 Extreme Edition and 925XE: 1066MHz FSB Support is Here
by Anand Lal Shimpi on October 31, 2004 3:00 PM EST- Posted in
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DivX 5.2.1 with AutoGK
Armed with the latest version of DivX (5.2.1) and the AutoGK front end for Gordian Knot, we took all of the processors to task at encoding a chapter out of Pirates of the Caribbean. We set AutoGK to give us 75% quality of the original DVD rip and did not encode audio.
There's a slight performance advantage here to the 3.46EE, but nothing huge.
XviD 5 with AutoGK
Another very popular codec is the XviD codec, and thus we measured encoding performance using it instead of DivX for this next test. The rest of the variables remained the same as the DivX test.
Windows Media Encoder 9
To finish up our look at Video Encoding performance we've got two tests both involving Windows Media Encoder 9. The first test is WorldBench 5's WMV9 encoding test.
But once we crank up the requirements a bit and start doing some HD quality encoding under WMV9 the situation changes dramatically; the 3.46EE still holds its own at the top of the charts.
Closing up our video encoding tests, while AMD does win some, with appropriate optimizations in place Intel seems to be the right candidate here.
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IceWindius - Sunday, October 31, 2004 - link
Considering that Dell of all companies is playing the "Well, were starting to have second thoughts" game, I think its just a matter of time MAME.After all, it wasn't long ago that people thought AMD was going bankrupt and being bought by Intel now was it?
nlhowell - Sunday, October 31, 2004 - link
The ACDSee info is from the A64 FX-55 and 4000+ review, I believe.The 1ghz FSB seems delightfully useless. Maybe this was an attempt to get more people using the 925X chipset?
MAME - Sunday, October 31, 2004 - link
while AMD looks quite attractive in comparison, Intel does not have to worry about AMD for a long long time. AMD is unknown to almost the entire "average joe" market. Even if AMD had finally broke through to Dell and large businesses effectively, they simply can't produce enough chips for Intel to be effectedIceWindius - Sunday, October 31, 2004 - link
Ahhhhh AMD just keeps looking better and better. :)I WILL have a nForce 4 and AMD .90nm purring in my machine before Christmas. Half Life 2 will be pure utter buttery smoothness baby.
Steg55 - Sunday, October 31, 2004 - link
At this rate Intel are really going to lose favour in the eyes of....well everyone. If AMD can capitalise on this - get some aggressive marketing out they might finally be able to remove the underdog tag from there name.Just educate the masses AMD - MAKE AMD THE HOUSEHOLD NAME then nothing will stop you.
Steg
LocutusX - Sunday, October 31, 2004 - link
neo means new in Latin anyways, so no biggie. ;)Hulk - Sunday, October 31, 2004 - link
Jeez, another "so what?" release from Intel.I hope these guys can get it together enough to continue to remain competitive with AMD.
GhandiInstinct - Sunday, October 31, 2004 - link
Neo = New lolGhandiInstinct - Sunday, October 31, 2004 - link
"We can only wonder what Intel is thinking."Yes, canceling Tejas and 1.2 FSB and releasing crappy chipsets. Neo CEO = New Death for a company.
AMD you can take another sigh of relief.
skunkbuster - Sunday, October 31, 2004 - link
lol