Intel Pentium 4 6xx and 3.73EE: Favoring Features Over Performance
by Anand Lal Shimpi & Derek Wilson on February 21, 2005 6:15 AM EST- Posted in
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Audio/Video Encoding
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DivX 5.2.1 with AutoGK
Armed with the 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.
XviD 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:
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stephenbrooks - Monday, February 21, 2005 - link
The 3.73 EE was at one stage referred to as the "720" model number. Anyone hear anything more of this? The '20 means 14x multiplier but 14x(1066MHz/4) = 3.73 GHz, so if a 730 was released it would be 4 GHz and so on.sphinx - Monday, February 21, 2005 - link
I liked the way the info was put into the tables, instead of images. Just an opinion.jmke - Monday, February 21, 2005 - link
Great article @ Anandtech, like the power ratings @ LOAD ;)here's some OC results from X-Bit labs: http://www.xbitlabs.com/articles/cpu/display/penti...
I've also seen 3.0Ghz 6xx series OC to 4.3 with STOCK COOLING!!!
nourdmrolNMT1 - Monday, February 21, 2005 - link
Dranzerk, SLI is not stupid. EE is a marketing gimmick to bring money in, you do what you can do to make money. SLI is a smart thing, but back on subject. i think O/Cing has nothing to do with a processors appeal, they are doing the review for those who want to know what intel is up to, not what it can O/C.MIKE
Dranzerk - Monday, February 21, 2005 - link
EE is what SLI is to nvidia. stupid.mlittl3 - Monday, February 21, 2005 - link
Is it just me or is the EE procesors just a big scam? All of the game benchmarks show the 3.46 beating or tieing the 3.73. How can a reputable company like Intel fool consumers with that crap? I want the names of everyone who buys an EE based Dell XPC so that I can tar and feather them in the public square.I bet I can sell Amway to all those people. :)
mongoosesRawesome - Monday, February 21, 2005 - link
"What Intel is counting on is that the increase in hit rate provided by a 50% larger cache will outshine the 17% longer access to L2 cache."Should be 100% larger cache...
AtaStrumf - Monday, February 21, 2005 - link
One thing you completely left out of the conclusion, but I think you should definately add is:Don't buy Intel until they have a chipset out that will support dual core.
danidentity - Monday, February 21, 2005 - link
Nice article, but why no overclocking results? That's very dissapointing.Surely you have a P5AD2-E to test these new chips with.
nourdmrolNMT1 - Monday, February 21, 2005 - link
whoa.... i got something right.MIKE