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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.

TRIBES VENGEANCE 1024x768 143 115 1280x1024 132 113 1600x1200 112 105 ATHLON64 3400 SEMPRON 3100 BENCHMARK SETTINGS Imperial Arena level LOW QUALITY Bump Map Detail Low Texture Detail Low Terrain Micro Disabled Fluid Surface Detail Low Fogging Distance Low Dynamic Shadow Low Glow Detail Low Terrain Deco Disabled World Detail Low v2.0 Pixel Shaders Disabled COMMENT - "Tribes Vengeance is set inside an arena and can use DX9 effects however these have been disabled for this processor review. The Athlon64 3400 can deliver a performance increase at all of the resolutions tested and at 1024x768 it delivers a 20% performance increase over the Sempron 3100."

UNREAL TOURNAMENT THUNDER 194 160 UTBENCH 96 79 PHOBIA 131 111 ATHLON64 3400 SEMPRON 3100 BENCHMARK SETTINGS 1024x768 32Bit Colour Depth High World Texture Detail High Skin Detail Show Decals Enabled Dynamic Lighting Enabled Minimum Frame Rate 0 COMMENT - "Unreal Tournament is one of the older games tested but unlike Quake 3 Arena it has always been considered processor limited making it ideal for this review. Using Thunder the Athlon64 3400 is 18% faster than the Sempron 3100, with UTBench it is 18% faster and with Phobia it is 16% faster."

UNREAL TOURNAMENT 2004 1024x768 148 116 1280x1024 147 116 1600x1200 131 115 ATHLON64 3400 SEMPRON 3100 BENCHMARK SETTINGS Bridge of Fate Level Direct3D Render Device 32Bit Colour Depth Texture Detail Normal Character Detail Normal World Detail High Physics Detail High Decal Stay High Full Character Shadows Full Fog Distance Decals Enabled Dynamic Lighting Enabled Detail Textures Enabled Coronas Enabled Trilinear Filtering Enabled Projectors Enabled Foliage Enabled Weather Effects Enabled COMMENT - "The Sempron 3100 appears to be very cpu limited with this game and only loses 1fps even at 1600x1200. The Athlon64 3400 however has more power and is 22% faster at 1024x768 and even at 1600x1200 the Athlon64 3400 is 13% faster than Sempron 3100."

WARHAMMER 40,000 DAWN OF WAR 1024x768 111 86 1280x1024 110 85 1600x1200 95 85 ATHLON64 3400 SEMPRON 3100 BENCHMARK SETTINGS Full 3D Camera Enabled Unit Occlusion Enabled Destroy The Xenos Level LOW QUALITY Texture Detail Low Terrain Detail Low World Events Low Shadows Low Lights Low FX Detail Low COMMENT - "The Sempron 3100 is cpu limited with this game and once again the Athlon64 3400 has plenty of power. At the cpu limited resolution of 1024x768 the Athlon64 3400 is 23% faster than the Sempron 3100 and even at 1600x1200 the Athlon64 3400 is 11% faster than the Sempron."

XPAND RALLY 1024x768 77 59 1280x1024 75 59 1600x1200 71 58 ATHLON64 3400 SEMPRON 3100 BENCHMARK SETTINGS Fullscreen Enabled Anti-Aliasing Disabled Grand Canyon Level LOW QUALITY Bilinear Material Quality Very Low View Distance 20% Water Quality Low Car Deformations Disabled Car Details Low Car Envmap Quality Low Car Shadows Low COMMENT - "Both processors are cpu limited with Xpand Rally, the Sempron 3100 is the worst effected and only loses 1fps. The Athlon64 3400 can push the game along better but still only loses 6fps."

FINAL GAME RESULTS 2629 2147 ATHLON64 3400 SEMPRON 3100 COMMENT - "We have added up all of the 1024x768 game results to find out the total game performance. The Athlon64 3400 offers a total of 482 extra frames per second which is a total game performance increase over the Sempron 3100 of 19%."

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