Northwood vs Prescott: A Clock For Clock Pentium 4 Battle

In this video, we compare a Northwood Pentium 4 to a Prescott Pentium 4 running in an identical environment to see if Prescott is as bad as people say and to find out where Intel went wrong with Netburst. Test System: Pentium 4 @ 3.2 GHz (Northwood | SL6WG) Pentium 4 @ 3.2 GHz (Prescott | SL7PN) Abit AI7 (Intel i865 chipset) 1GB Dual Channel DDR @ 400 MHz CL3 Nvidia Geforce 6800 512MB Adata 128GB SSD Windows XP Professional SP2 Music List: Level 2 - Descent (AWE 32 recording by Goomer    • Descent OST - Level 2 (AWE32)   ) Level 5 - Descent (AWE 32 recording by Goomer    • Descent OST - Level 5 (AWE32)   ) Stardust Speedway (Present) - Sonic CD (US) Menu Theme - Half-Life PS2 Port (Extended & Enhanced by BlackLambda25    • Half-Life OST - Main Menu Theme (Extended ...  ) Prunus in Guahua (Menu) - Gran Turismo 6 Lotus in dam (Menu) - Gran Turismo 6 New PSN Account - PlayStation Vita Kei - Maken X Chapters: 0:00 Introduction & Background 6:14 The Test Setup 7:38 Benchmarks 16:36 Thoughts & Conclusion 25:35 Outro