• Competitor rules

    Please remember that any mention of competitors, hinting at competitors or offering to provide details of competitors will result in an account suspension. The full rules can be found under the 'Terms and Rules' link in the bottom right corner of your screen. Just don't mention competitors in any way, shape or form and you'll be OK.

E2140 vs XP1700 and benchmarking

suomi

suomi

suomi

Associate
Joined
3 Apr 2007
Posts
101
Looking to have a new system at Christmas, should have all the pennys saved then.

The base of the system is going to be a Giga GAP35CDS3R M/B with a E2140 C2D. Was going to be E6600 but it is at the moment £100 more. Hopefully in a year's time the price will be down or I may start looking at a quad :eek:

Now I expect to see some improvement over the old AMD XP1700.

I would like to measure what both chips are doing as stock. Can any one recommend a good brenchmarking programme (better if its free :D ) that will work with both chips.

Cheers :)

Results below
 
Last edited:
Finally got the new rig at Christmas, it is basically

Artic 7 Pro cooler
C2D E6400
Gigabyte M/B GA-P35C-DS3R
Gainward Bliss 7900GS
2x1GB Ge.IL PC2-6400C5

Was going to originally get an E2180, but the chance of an E6400 came along at no extra cost. So 1.8GHz L2 1MB v’s 2.13GHz L2 2MB seems to make sense to me.

Originally was after a ATI 3850 , but ended up with the Gainward. It seems fine to me for what I have done so far ( I am not a big gamer). Want to get Crysis in a couple of months. Is the Gainward ok for this or should I think about an ATI3870?

With memory so cheap at the moment, getting another 2x1GB seems to be a no brainer. Guess with the O/S being XP 32-bit I won’t see the full amount.

Sadly not had the chance to overclock it yet. How far can the E6400 go on air? As looking on here they don’t seem to be as popular as E2180 or E6600. When i can get back to Cumbria, where the rig is, I will have a go at over clocking.

I can now encode 10 minutes (650mb) of video in 15 minutes, where as before it took 1 hour 20 minutes.

Benchmarking

XP1700

3DMark2001 2,523
AquaMark3 4,592

E6400

3DMark2001 31,259
AquaMark3 113,427 (GFX 20,856 - CPU12,432)


Now wanting to get the video encoding down below a minute for a minute of video.

May think about changing the chip at the back end of the year to either E8400 or maybe a Q6600.
 
You must log in or register to reply here.
Back
Top Bottom