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Topic: CPU benchmarks

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Steve Riggins,
Software Deveoper

The SPEC CPU benchmarks do provide a comparitive measure of performance of the processor, memory, and compiler on a known workload, but they may not represent your particular situation.
Similar to SMP systems with two physical CPUs, benchmarks of HT have shown that this is very beneficial for users who multitask and run may programs simultaneously.

Dan Toomey,
Computer Salesman

We ran the benchmarks on our Cube with the original 450 MHz CPU and the new 800 MHz PowerForce G4 Series 100 upgrade.
It also benchmarks it and gives you an idea of what sort of performance to expect from overclocking particular cpu's, both Intel and AMD.
In the graphics speed benchmarks above we see that the CPU still has a major effect on graphics speed so how about the graphics card?

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