Intel 925X/915: Chipset Performance & DDR2
by Wesley Fink on June 19, 2004 3:01 AM EST- Posted in
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925X vs. 875: Gaming Performance
Comparing an 875 Northwood system to the new 925X, we once again see Northwood providing better gaming performance despite having only half the cache of Prescott. In virtually every gaming benchmark, the 875 Northwood is faster, ranging from 1% to 15%. Overall, Northwood averages about 5% faster gaming performance at the same speed.
This is offset by the fact that 3.4 is the fastest Northwood that you can buy. There is not a 3.6 Northwood, only the 560 Prescott in Socket 775 at 3.6GHz. As new speed grades are introduced, there will be fewer reasons to hold onto Northwood chips, but for gaming, Northwood is still a better performer at the same clock speed.
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Neekotin - Saturday, June 19, 2004 - link
guess i'll be keeping my system for another 1 year.. hehehe ;). just gonna buy me a new GPU!Degrador - Saturday, June 19, 2004 - link
Well this has just confirmed my plan for an athlon 64 next - I can't see any reason to be looking towards intel, either now or in the near future (next 6 months).WileCoyote - Saturday, June 19, 2004 - link
baby steps...mkruer - Saturday, June 19, 2004 - link
Actually now that I think of Intel might be correct. The chipset may be up to 15% faster, its just that Prescott is up to 15% slower.wicktron - Saturday, June 19, 2004 - link
zzzzzzmkruer - Saturday, June 19, 2004 - link
The moral of this story, buy AMD instead.Falloutboy525 - Saturday, June 19, 2004 - link
now it makes sence as to why amd isn't even bothering wth ddr2 till it speeds up