Review: Pentium 4 with i845

Benchmark Considerations

As stated at the beginning this review deals with pre-production parts. The CPU will get at least one other stepping for launch, as will the chipset. This may not only result in less compatibility issues but also turned out to bring higher performance for other products in the past.

To make comparison a little easier, we also included a projection of production parts, apart from the acutal scores taken in the lab. The projection is based on the performance delta of a Pentium III with PC800 memory and PC133. Although Pentium 4 has a much faster bus (quad pumped 100 MHz versus 133 MHz) this turned out to be surprisingly accurate for some of the software. We label the projection with tecChannel.de 1500 PC133 and an orange bar.

The sample of a Pentium 4 for Socket 478 has blue bars for acutal scores, and the Pentium 4 with PC800 in an 850 board comes up in green.

The hardware used for the benchmarks is listed in the sections Test Setup, available in the navigation bar to the right. We have to spare the details on the i845 and the Pentium 4 for Socket 478 there, for obvious reasons.