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PC Magazine Business / Multimedia Winstone

Admittedly, the Business Winstone benchmarks are getting a bit long in the tooth, but they are still a good benchmark for "business" usage - and we have a large database of results to compare against.

Business Winstone

Here we can clearly see how superior the Core 2 architecture is to any previous Intel dual core offering - as it handily beats a 2.66GHz 805, a 3GHz 930D and a 3.2GHz 840 D - however we also see that the AMD X2's are an excellent value for general use / business machnes - with the significantly less expensive 3800+ X2 and the comparably priced 4200+ X2 signifiantly beating the Intel E4300. Note how the FX-62 beats all the tested Intel chips here.

Content Creation

We have almost the same situation for Content Creation as we had for Business Winstone - except that the 3.2GHz 840 D managed to beat the 1.8GHz E4300 here. The AMD 3800+ X2 and 4200+ X2 again handily beat the E4300, again proving that for business/general desktop usage they are a better value than the E4300. Again, the FX-62 beats all the tested Intel chips here.