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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."
AMD ATHLON64 3400

GENERAL SYSTEM INFORMATION

PROCESSOR AMD ATHLON64 3400
AMD SEMPRON 3100
AMD ATHLON XP 3200
MOTHERBOARD GIGABYTE K8NS PRO
ASROCK K7S8XE+
VIDEO CARD MSI GEFORCE 6600 GT
NVIDIA DRIVER FORCEWARE v77.77
MEMORY 2 x 512MB OCZ GOLD XTC PC3200 DDR
OPERATING SYSTEM WINDOWS XP SERVICE PACK 2
DIRECTX VERSION v9.0c

FAR CRY

1024x768

ATHLON64 3400176
SEMPRON 3100143

1280x1024

ATHLON64 3400175
SEMPRON 3100143

1600x1200

ATHLON64 3400135
SEMPRON 3100131

ATHLON64 3400 SEMPRON 3100

BENCHMARK SETTINGS

Volcano Level
Anti-Aliasing Disabled
Fullscreen Enabled
Vertical Sync Disabled
Default Render Mode

LOW QUALITY

Texture Quality Low
Bilinear
Anisotropic Filtering 1
Particle Count Low
Special Effects Low
Enviroment Quality Low
Shadow Quality Low
Water Quality Low
Lighting Quality Low

COMMENT - "The Athlon64 3400 offers very good frame rates with Far Cry, it outperforms the Sempron 3100 by between 3% to 19%."


LEGO STAR WARS

ULTRA (1280x1024)

ATHLON64 3400143
SEMPRON 3100108

ATHLON64 3400 SEMPRON 3100

COMMENT - "Lego Star Wars isn't the usual type of game you find in pc hardware reviews but unlike most modern games it is mostly cpu limited. The Athlon64 3400 offers 25% extra performance over the Sempron 3100 in Lego Star Wars."

PARIAH

1024x768

ATHLON64 3400109
SEMPRON 3100108

1280x1024

ATHLON64 340086
SEMPRON 310086

1600x1200

ATHLON64 340064
SEMPRON 310064

ATHLON64 3400 SEMPRON 3100

BENCHMARK SETTINGS

Fullscreen Enabled
Vertical Sync Disabled

LOW QUALITY

Texture Detail Low
Visual Effects Low
Render Quality Low

COMMENT - "Pariah was a hard game to get working well enough for benchmarking, when we first used the game we had frame rates in the low 20's which was unacceptable. With the release of the v77.77 drivers from Nvidia all of the problems were corrected. Even using the lowest settings (I even checked 640x480) both of the processors delivered the same performance."


QUAKE 3 ARENA

1024x768

ATHLON64 3400394
SEMPRON 3100328

1280x1024

ATHLON64 3400365
SEMPRON 3100314

1600x1200

ATHLON64 3400309
SEMPRON 3100283

ATHLON64 3400 SEMPRON 3100

BENCHMARK SETTINGS

Four.dm68 Benchmark
32Bit Colour Depth
Texture Compress Disabled
Lightmap Lighting
High Geometric Detail
Full Texture Detail
Trilinear Texture Filtering

COMMENT - "Quake 3 Arena is one of the older games featured here but alot of games use the Quake3 engine so it's worth seeing how it performs. The Athlon64 3400 delivers a 17% performance increase over the Sempron 3100 at the lowest resolution tested which then drops to a 9% performance increase when using the video card limited resolution 1600x1200."


SCRAPLAND

1024x768

ATHLON64 3400151
SEMPRON 3100136

1280x1024

ATHLON64 3400132
SEMPRON 3100118

1600x1200

ATHLON64 3400103
SEMPRON 3100101

ATHLON64 3400 SEMPRON 3100

BENCHMARK SETTINGS

Vsync Disabled
Crazy Gambler Level

LOW QUALITY

Bilinear Texture Filtering
Low Texture Detail
Shadows Disabled
Fog Disabled
Bloom Disabled
Motion Blur Disabled
Deformation Disabled

COMMENT - "Scrapland is a very graphically stunning game so is more video card than processor limited, however the Athlon64 3400 is still able to deliver a 10% performance increase over the Sempron 3100 at 1024x768."


SQUADRA CORSE
ALFA ROMEO

1024x768

ATHLON64 3400153
SEMPRON 3100111

1280x1024

ATHLON64 3400110
SEMPRON 3100102

1600x1200

ATHLON64 340076
SEMPRON 310075

ATHLON64 3400 SEMPRON 3100

BENCHMARK SETTINGS

Dynasty Mode
Valenciana Track
Windowed Disabled
Cubic Enviroment Enabled
Depth Of Field Enabled
Mixing Hardware Enabled
Reverbs Enabled
32 Voice Sound Enabled

COMMENT - "Scar is a very stunning racing game with wide open tracks with lots of detail, at higher resolutions we become video card limited but at 1024x768 the Athlon64 3400 outperforms the Sempron 3100 by a good 28%."


TRACKMANIA SUNRISE

1024x768

ATHLON64 3400188
SEMPRON 3100158

1280x1024

ATHLON64 3400163
SEMPRON 3100146

1600x1200

ATHLON64 3400134
SEMPRON 3100126

ATHLON64 3400 SEMPRON 3100

BENCHMARK SETTINGS

Skidordie Level

LOW QUALITY

Shader Quality Low
Texture Quality Low
Trilinear
Shadows Minimum
Limit Depth Auto
Maximum Depth Medium
Water Geometry Disabled

COMMENT - "Trackmania Sunrise is a very fast racing game with stunning graphics and wide open tracks. The Athlon64 3400 delivers a 16% performance increase over the Sempron 3100 at 1024x768 and a 6% increase at 1600x1200."

PAGE 1 - AMD ATHLON64 3400 INTRODUCTION
PAGE 2 - 3DMARK 2001 TO 2005, CPU BENCH, META BENCH AND REAL STORM
PAGE 3 - 1941, AREA 51, COMANCHE 4, DOOM III AND OTHERS
PAGE 4 - FAR CRY, LEGO STAR WARS, PARIAH, TRACKMANIA SUNRISE AND OTHERS
PAGE 5 - TRIBES VENGEANCE, UNREAL TOURNAMENT AND FINAL RESULT

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