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

 

PCMark 2002 was released a couple of years ago by Madonion (now Futuremark) the makers of 3DMark. It allows users to benchmark their Hard Drive, Memory and Processor under a variety of tests which are designed to show how the system will perform in home and office tasks.

 

CPU and Hard Drive scores for the 3 systems are very close, the real world differences wouldn’t be noticeable based on those results however the Athlon FX-51 really begins to show its potential in memory tests, DDR333 is a reasonable margin above the P4 system using DDR400 however the Athlon64 FX-51 mixed with memory running at DDR400 shows a huge advantage over both systems. 10695 is an excellent score which would show real advantages over the P4 system in real world applications that rely on memory bandwidth.

 

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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