Multitasking Scenario 3: Web Browsing

For this benchmark, we decided to switch things up a bit and keep Firefox as our foreground application while background tasks ran.

The Firefox, iTunes and Newsleecher tasks from the first test scenario were also present in this one, plus we did the following:

Open Outlook, immediately import 130MB PST file and immediately switch app focus to Firefox.

We then recorded the total time required to import the new PST while Firefox was our foreground application. The results were very interesting:

Multitasking Performance - Scenario 3

The benefits of dual core are obvious, and the Athlon 64 X2 continues to be a strong performer, offering performance virtually on par with Intel's dual core flagship.

Multitasking Scenario 2: File Compression Multitasking Scenario 4: 3D Rendering
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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 Anand

    very depthful
  • ashegam - Monday, May 9, 2005 - link

    I'm having a woodygasm :)
  • nourdmrolNMT1 - Monday, May 9, 2005 - link

    looks very promising

    MIKE
  • 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 :)
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