Since any testing must be efficiently multithreaded to clearly show the potential gains, normal games would not suffice. Added the fact that I was running in NT and game scores tend to seriously lag behind on an NT platform, I needed a different benchmark. Solution, RC5 block rate. If you are not familiar with RC5, click here . Basically, the RC5 contest is about distributed processing.
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It has full support for dual CPUs and is mostly processor intensive. Both tests were run on PII 266 MHz systems running NT 4.0 with service pack 3. The Good Fun performance issues to play and tinker with. The limited overclocking MHz offered were found to be very stable. This is definitely the ground work for the future boards.