The FiringSquad have a new article out Called RADEON X800 PRO Performance with Athlon XP that looks at the different CPU scaling you get when paired with AMD's Athlon XP! Here's a snip.

Due to time constraints, one feature that we?ve had to remove from our graphics performance previews as of late is CPU scaling analysis. In the past we?d rely on one or perhaps two titles to explore this topic, but this paints a fairly narrow picture of the subject matter. At the same time however, obviously the more applications and processors you add, the more time it takes: a project that may only take a day or two very quickly blossoms into three or four. Next thing you know the non-disclosure agreement (NDA) expires and it?s time to publish the article!

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I like to use the term ?feature creep? for this particular situation. The more features you add to the article, whether it?s additional titles for benchmarking, adding graphics cards, or including added image quality/game settings, the more time involved to prepare the article for launch day. Sometimes the hour can arrive while you?re still busy working ? for instance, that RADEON 8500 or GeForce4 added to the test suite took just a little longer than estimated. That?s good old feature creep for you.

Unfortunately, this is how we got caught up on launch day for the RADEON X800 article that appeared last week. As a result, the article went up a few hours after the embargo expired, and without CPU scaling analysis. Today we?re here to correct that.

RADEON X800 PRO Performance with Athlon XP