X-bit labs - Massive Attack: Performance Tests of 14 Processors Priced at $200+ (page 6)

northwood is faster clock for clock but i dont think the difference is worth $30 bucks(just my opinion, ask for a lower price if u can). try overclocking, my preshot is doing fine for now at 4.1ghz.

here's a good northwood vs prescott review to help u decide:
http://www.xbitlabs.com/articles/c [...] tests.html


X-bit labs - Massive Attack: Performance Tests of 14 Processors Priced at $200+ (page 6): "Performance in Office and Digital Content Creation Applications

As usual, here we are going to share the results obtained in Winstone test packages. Now we are using newer versions of these benchmarks released in the end of 2003. They are Business Winstone 2004 and Multimedia Content Creation Winstone 2004.

Business Winstone 2004 is a benchmark, which shows the average performance of the tested platforms during work in regular office applications. The test imitates the everyday work of an average user in a bunch of widely spread programs and displays the result basing on the time it took the programs to complete the tasks. The list of applications used in this benchmark for proper performance analysis is pretty long and includes Microsoft Access 2002 SP-2, Microsoft Excel 2002 SP-2, Microsoft FrontPage 2002 SP-2, Microsoft Outlook 2002 SP-2, Microsoft PowerPoint 2002 SP-2, Microsoft Project 2002, Microsoft Word 2002 SP-2, WinZip 8.1 SR-1 and Norton AntiVirus Professional Edition 2003.

Multimedia Content Creation Winstone 2004 is very similar to Business Winstone 2004, however, it uses absolutely different applications. All of them are intended for creation and processing of images, audio and video streams. The complete list of applications includes a number of popular and widely spread prof"