General Performance - SYSMark 2007

SYSMark has always pushed the envelope of desktop PC usage patterns, and the latest version is no exception. Intel's Core 2 processors do exceptionally well here, with the E6420 pulling slightly ahead of the 5600+ in the overall score; looking at the individual tests you'll see that AMD ends up ahead in the Video Creation and 3D tests, with Intel taking the E-Learning and Productivity suites. Overall the two equally priced processors perform very similarly, so you can't go wrong with either one.

The impact of the 1333MHz FSB is minimal throughout the entire suite.

General Usage Performance - SYSMark 2007

General Usage Performance - SYSMark 2007

General Usage Performance - SYSMark 2007

General Usage Performance - SYSMark 2007

General Usage Performance - SYSMark 2007

The Test General Performance - PC WorldBench 6
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  • yacoub - Monday, June 25, 2007 - link

    Cool, so basically my E4400 oc'd to 3.0GHz @ 1333MHz fsb is essentially an E6850 with half the L2 cache (2MB vs 4MB). For only $135 it's giving me quite the bang-for-the-buck. :D
  • JmsAndrsn - Monday, June 25, 2007 - link

    Cool, so basically my E4400 oc'd to 3.0GHz @ 1333MHz fsb is essentially an E6850 with half the L2 cache (2MB vs 4MB). For only $135 it's giving me quite the bang-for-the-buck. :D


    Actually, an E4400 overclocked to 1333 FSB would be at 3.33GHz. An E4300 @ 1333 FSB would be 3.0GHz
  • yacoub - Tuesday, June 26, 2007 - link

    sorry, forgot to mention i dropped the multiplier to 9x. =)
    Not enough heatsink to cool 3.3Ghz to a temp i was satisfied with.
  • tim75 - Monday, June 25, 2007 - link

    Slightly off topic, but since the 1333 FSB has 10.6 GB/s bandwidth (1333 x 64bit) I can use DDR-667 in dual channel mode(also 10.6 GB/s[667 x 128 bit]) without any performance hit right?
  • bamacre - Monday, June 25, 2007 - link

    Yup. At stock speeds you'll only need 667mhz DDR2 for the 1333mhz FSB C2D's. And of course 533mhz DDR2 for 1066mhz C2D's.
  • gigahertz20 - Monday, June 25, 2007 - link

    Gary Key,

    quote:

    We will provide an answer for what board we think best exemplifies the performance and capability of the P35 chipset in our roundup coming in the latter part of June.


    I've been waiting for your promised P35 roundup article you mentioned in your May 30th "Gigabyte GA-P35T-DQ6: DDR3 comes a knocking, again" article. Any word on what day this week it will be posted? I'm eagerly waiting the release of the article so I finally buy my long awaited Core 2 Duo setup, I just need a solid motherboard to go with it.
  • yacoub - Monday, June 25, 2007 - link

    If you give up waiting, go for the MSi P6N-SLI Platinum. Awesome 650i-SLI board. She's rock solid for me @ 1333MHz fsb, only voltage increase is on the vcore, and I'm running 4GB dual-channel paired in the four DIMM slots. Fast and stable, just as I'd wanted.
  • gigahertz20 - Monday, June 25, 2007 - link

    Is the article on time to be published this week?
  • Deusfaux - Monday, June 25, 2007 - link

    I assume your comparisons of the 2 FSBs are keeping end clock speed the same?

  • sc3252 - Monday, June 25, 2007 - link

    Why don't your new articles have tests where you run multiple applications at the same time, I really enjoyed reading older articles how the cpu's stood up to multitasking. Its nice that we have benchmarks showing how much faster the new cpu's are, but I don't think it shows how we will really be using the computer.

    For example I will be using my computer much different then say playing one game strictly. When I play world of warcraft I will usually have itunes open playing a song, and Firefox open looking up where to turn in my next quest. It would be nice if in future articles you could create a benchmark doing some of those things.

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