Review: Stuart "Veridian3" Davidson
Editor/Design: Allan "Zardon" Campbell

 

We’ve been using Aquamark 3 in our graphics card reviews for a while now, what we haven’t used in those reviews is the CPU score and so here we have a breakdown of two things. Firstly how well both processors score in the CPU test and secondly how the processors score overall.

 

The Pentium 4 system scores quite respectably in the Aquamark3 CPU rating. On the Athlon FX system it appears the DDR333 was holding back the system because changing to DDR400 really boosts the performance of the system beating the DDR333 and Pentium 4 systems by a reasonable margin.

 

 

The overall scores seem more limited by the graphics card than the CPU’s, the Pentium 4 does manage to drag slightly more performance from the card.

 

 

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Select 1. Introduction 2. Pcmark02 3. Nbench 4. Aquamark3 5. UT2003 6. Pcmark04 7. Max Payne 2 8. Photoshop 9. Overclocking 10. Conclusion