SUMMARY: If you can find the time to pull yourself away from playing HL2, we have posted an article which looks at the recent FSB speed increase from Intel with their 925XE chipset and Pentium 4 Extreme Edition 3.46GHz processor. We compare the performance of the new 1066FSB system against an older 800FSB system with reference 925X motherboard. Is it worth the upgrade in such little time? Read on and find out!
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We used the Pentium 4 3.4GHz Extreme Edition 800MHz FSB and the Extreme Edition 3.46GHz 1066MHz FSB in order to try and keep the results as even as possible. The memory modules were set to DDR-2 533MHz and at SPD in BIOS in all of our tests to give the most accurate readings.
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Here we can now see the benefits of DDR-2. When running 533MHz on an 800MHz FSB system the DRAM clocks are asynchronous but when on a 1066MHz FSB system 533MHz clocks are synchronous with the system bus which means less latencies between read and write cycles to the memory.
On the CPU side, despite only a 60MHz advantage to the new 1066FSB CPU the performance has increased quite dramatically, guess a bus increase now and then does speed things along.
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