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Intel Canterwood "Bonanza" Reference Board
Written by Matt Skinner (16/Apr/03)
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Benchmarks continued..

3dmark 2001SE

1024x768
1280x1024
Canterwood P4 @3.0ghz
10941
8033
Canterwood P4 @2.4ghz
10470
7920
Nforce2 XP @1743mhz
8695
6981

The numbers speak for themselves, the Canterwood scores 2000 or so points above the Nforce2, regardless of the CPU clock rate.

 

Memory Performance (Sciencemark)

Canterwood
4035MB/s (Bios Default timings)
Nforce2
2295MB/s (Bios Default "Aggressive" Timings)

Here we see just what a difference the massive lead the Canterwood's FSB makes. Though it doesn't reach its theoretical peak of 6.4GB/s, it is still nearly twice as effective as an Nforce2 running 333FSB and Dual Channel DDR400!

 

SPECviewperf 7.1 (OpenGL)

Canterwood @ 3ghz
Canterwood @ 2.4ghz
3dsmax-01
8.655
8.454
drv-08 W
32.77
32.93
dx-07
52.37
46.10
light-05
13.88
12.04
proe-01
11.74
11.47
ugs-01
6.488
5.972

The Nforce 2 results are omitted as they were totaly inconsistent with typical Nforce2 results, and I expect to get to the bottom of this during writing the upcoming Nforce2 Shootout article and include the correct results for this board.

 

Conclusion

The Canterwood chipset is simply going to be the best available for all out performance in the near future, though as usual with Intel you pay for the privilege. Will somebody who already owns a fairly current system wish to upgrade to Canterwood? I doubt it. But if you insist on the last word in performance no matter the cost, you are going to be very pleased.

Many thanks to Intel and Asus for supplying their respective components.

Matt Skinner (Random Nonsense)


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