AMD Athlon 64 X2 6000+: Competing with Aggressive Pricing
by Anand Lal Shimpi on February 20, 2007 3:37 PM EST- Posted in
- CPUs
Archiving Performance
One of our more unusual tests is a benchmark using Quickpar 0.9.1. Quickpar can reconstruct missing parts of an archive with the requisite Par2 files (files storing parity data). The reconstruction process can take some time, especially if you're dealing with a large archive missing many files.
In order to test the impact of CPU performance on reconstructing lost files we created an archive measuring almost 8GB in size and generated 20 Par2 files off of it. We then threw away part of the archive and told Quickpar to regenerate the missing files using only what it had and the Par2 files. We report the recovery rate in MB/s. Note that not only is Quickpar not a 64-bit application, it's also only single threaded, but it is quite dependent on CPU speed.
The performance breakdown in our Quickpar test is fairly close, but Intel seems to win out each time. The E6700 is about 6% faster than the X2 6000+ as is the E6600 vs. the 5600+. At the lower end of the price spectrum, the E6400 manages a 10% lead over the X2 5000+.
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Roy2001 - Tuesday, February 20, 2007 - link
Trouble with 965P? That's rare case. 1st time to me actually. My DS3+E6600 system has yet to give me trouble. My old Athlon systems, both desktop and laptop, do not work very well with USB/PCI wifi card. Laptop need to boot/wake without wifi card inserted and desktop will lost connection once every day.I am not an fanboy, I am just stating the fact. As you can see, I have more AMD systems than Intel system.
johnsonx - Wednesday, February 21, 2007 - link
Your wifi card problems were far more likely due to the drivers, and possibly the cards themselves, than due to the AMD platform. I've seen both of those problems on all manner of systems, both AMD and Intel. Besides, it just isn't the type of problem I would hang on the platform.JarredWalton - Tuesday, February 20, 2007 - link
P965 at launch was really quite flaky. Many people (me among them) had memory compatibility problems, and not just with elite memory. The BIOS updates have now pretty much fixed any problems, but some of those updates took 2-3 months after launch to fix all of the important stuff (depending on motherboard). And let's not even get into the "DirectX 9" G965 fiasco... I think we're still waiting on drivers that are even remotely able to run DX9 content, and it's still slow at that.Thatguy97 - Thursday, June 18, 2015 - link
man i bought myself a couple x2s after the price cuts back then still used a core 2 duo e6600 as a primary but they were so cheap i couldnt help myself had to get a 5600+