Benchmarks: Intel's 64-bit Pentium 4 660
Published: 03 Mar 2005
Protection from worms and trojans
The new Intel chips include technology designed to prevent dangerous code -- contained in email attachments, for example -- being executed via buffer overflows. This is the eXecute Disable (XD) bit, which makes its first appearance on a mainstream Intel desktop CPU: until now, Intel has only implemented the XD bit in the server-class Itanium processor, and a limited number of Pentium 4 variants (those with the suffix 'J'). The Athlon 64, Athlon 64 FX and Opteron processors also offer this feature, which AMD calls No eXecute (NX).
Windows XP has supported the XD/NX feature since Service Pack 2 (Microsoft calls it 'Data Execution Prevention', or DEP). With DEP, the operating system provides a measure of inbuilt protection from worms and trojans, reducing the need to constantly install new security patches. Microsoft estimates that memory overflows lead to 50 per cent of all virus attacks; systems with XD or NX chips are therefore better protected against such attacks than those lacking this feature.
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Why no Linux based benchmarks? 64 bit linux has a... James Essex -
64 bit Linux isn't even considered in the art... davidm -
You know what's funny? I read these articles... Anonymous Cowheard
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Mostly directed at ubah Linux hardcorz:
How a... Michael Jaars
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That's because linux suck, get a grip Anonymous
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"64-bit computing [...] won't be a huge deal for t... Casper Wilstrup
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While it's nice to see some competition in the 64-... Fredrik Tolf
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In the case of architectures like Ultrasparc... Tim
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The games benchmarks are obviously limit... Filotti -
What an irritatingly Windows-centric view.
I need... Sean C, McCord
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Who cares about Windows anymore? Everyone is switc... Anonymous
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Linux, Linux, Linux. Do the review again! Jim
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not everyone is moving to linux!
dont be a la... that guys a lamer
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How about Linux benchmarks? Windows is pretty much... Anonymous
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what the fuck does the following mean "although th... Anonymous
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STFU you stupid Linux fanboys. All you guys... Skippity McDoody
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To say 64-bit versions of architectures... Anonymous -
Hopefully you do not use intel. If you do - d... rowan
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what the fcuk does the following mean "although th... Anonymous
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Look more like an Intel Press release than a bench... Paul Blair (toadlife)
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You need 64-bit windows to make best use of it?
Wh... michael goulish
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Sean, it doesn't seem to me that that is what the... Jason Archer
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Considering Microsoft's inability to provide... The Mitch
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"Intel may draw comfort from the fact that it has... Some Llama
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Itanium is truly 64 bits ok. read the article... Anonymous
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can't be 82%c. at that temp, your processor i... Anonymous
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I just recently bought the Intel Pentium... DeSi
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well to start off i think this article is sorta bi... Tyler
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Great review! Sorry to say that all you Linux lam... Anonymous
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Unless I'm missing something, neither AMD64 n... Cubase SX User
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I have bought the intel 660 ( 3,6GHz 64-bit) chip.... Kostis Tsiutras
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Windows Rules!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Windows Fan
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AMD 64-bit improved my genetic algorithm optimizat... Anonymous
