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AMD ATHLON64 3400 REVIEW

"AMD Athlon64 3400 review testing the powerful 2.4Ghz Newcastle Socket 754 processor from AMD. Other hardware used was the AMD Sempron 3100, AMD Athlon XP 3200 and the GIGABYTE K8NS PRO motherboard."

In this review we are testing the AMD Athlon64 3400, this is a very powerful 2.4Ghz Socket 754 processor from AMD. There are two versions of the Athlon64 3400, the first is the older Clawhammer which has a clock speed of 2.2Ghz and a huge 1024K Level 2 cache. The version we are testing here is the later Newcastle version of the Athlon64 3400 which has a clock speed of 2.4Ghz (200Mhz higher than the older Clawhammer) and a 512K Level 2 Cache.

We will be comparing the Athlon64 3400 to the budget Sempron 3100 because we know alot of you are wondering how the Sempron 3100 measures up against the more expensive Athlon64. In some of the synthetic benchmarks we will also be featuring the well known Athlon XP 3200 although it isn't being featured in any of the game benchmarks.

We will be testing the Athlon64 3400 and Sempron 3100 processors using a very wide range of synthetic and game benchmarks. The synthetic benchmarks used duing this review was 3dmark 2001 SE, 3dmark 2003, 3dmark 2005, CPU Bench 2003, KribiBench, Metabench, Realstorm 2004, SiSoftware Sandra 2005, Sciencemark 2 and SuperPI.

We also used an even bigger range of old and new games software for benchmarking, we used 1944 Battle of the Bulge, Area 51, Aurora Watching, Codename Panzers Phase 2, Comanche4, Delta Force Extreme, Doom 3, Far Cry, Lego Starwars, Pariah, Quake 3 Arena, Scar, Scrapland, Trackmania Sunrise, Tribes Vengeance, Unreal Tournament, Unreal Tournament 2004, Warhammer 40K Dawn of War and Xpand Rally for a very comprehensive range of software.

1944 - BATTLE OF THE BULGE 1024x768 158 133 1280x1024 157 131 1600x1200 130 125 ATHLON64 3400 SEMPRON 3100 BENCHMARK SETTINGS St. Vith Scenario LOW QUALITY Texture Detail Low Particle Density Low Shadow Resolution Low Water Disabled Decals Disabled Fog Enabled Wire Physics Disabled Grass Disabled COMMENT - "This is the start of the game benchmarks which are for most people the most important, I have selected low quality settings because we are benchmarking the processor and not the video card. As expected the Athlon64 3400 is the clear winner outperforming the Sempron 3100 by 4% to 16%."

AREA 51 1024x768 78 66 1280x1024 53 53 1600x1200 39 39 ATHLON64 3400 SEMPRON 3100 BENCHMARK SETTINGS Lies Of The Past Level High Detail Disabled COMMENT - "Area 51 quickly becomes video card limited and the only difference is at 1024x768 when the Athlon64 3400 outperformed the Sempron 3100 by 16%."

AURORA WATCHING 1024x768 88 69 1280x1024 88 64 1600x1200 86 57 ATHLON64 3400 SEMPRON 3100 BENCHMARK SETTINGS "The Worst Hangover Ever" Level LOW QUALITY Quality Shadows Disabled Texture Resolution 25% Pixel Shaders Disabled Fullscreen Effects Disabled Decal Textures Disabled High Particle Count Enabled COMMENT - "Aurora Watching is another new game like Area 51 but this time the game is much more cpu limited rather than video card limited. The Athlon64 3400 outperforms the Sempron 3100 by between 22% to 34%."

CODENAME PANZERS PHASE TWO 1024x768 70 51 1280x1024 62 47 1600x1200 62 47 ATHLON64 3400 SEMPRON 3100 BENCHMARK SETTINGS "Tunis" Level 32bit Color Depth Default Refresh Rate Vsync Disabled LOW QUALITY Anti-Aliasing Disabled Shadows Disabled Texture Detail Low Bilinear COMMENT - "Codename Panzers Phase Two is a strategy game and this type of game usually makes good use of a strong processor, this is correct with this game and the Athlon64 3400 outperforms the Sempron 3100 by 25% to 28%."

COMANCHE 4 1024x768 73 55 1280x1024 72 55 1600x1200 69 55 ATHLON64 3400 SEMPRON 3100 BENCHMARK SETTINGS Fullscreen Enabled 32Bit Colour Depth Anti-Aliasing Disabled Terrain Detail High Object Detail High Texture Quality High Water Quality High Shadows High Particle Density High COMMENT - "Just like strategy games simulation games also make good use of a fast processor and the Athlon64 3400 outperforms the Sempron 3100 by 21% to 25%."

DELTA FORCE EXTREME 1024x768 62 51 1280x1024 55 51 1600x1200 43 43 ATHLON64 3400 SEMPRON 3100 BENCHMARK SETTINGS Peru Campaign Mission Flood LOW QUALITY Terrain Polygon Low Terrain Texture Normal Object Polygon Detail Low Object Texture Detail Normal Water Quality Low Shadows Low Particle Density Low Frame Effects Minimal Antialiasing Disabled Bilinear Texture Compression Maximum COMMENT - "Delta Force Extreme is quite a graphically demanding game and quickly becomes video card limited at higher resolutions. However the Athlon64 3400 still outperformed the Sempron 3100 by 18% at the lowest resolution."

DOOM III 1024x768 113 94 1280x1024 86 79 1600x1200 63 62 ATHLON64 3400 SEMPRON 3100 BENCHMARK SETTINGS High Quality Fullscreen Enabled Vertical Sync Disabled Demo1 Benchmark LOW QUALITY Bump Maps Disabled Shadows Disabled Special Effects Disabled Specular Disabled Antialiasing Disabled COMMENT - "Doom 3 is another graphically demanding game but the Athlon64 3400 outperformed the Sempron 3100 by 9% to 17%."

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