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Sandra

In order to be able to compare to older processors, I used Sandra 2004 results for this review.

For the processor benchmark, again we see the Intel E4300 beating previous generation Intel dual core chips; and for Sandra, it even beats the AMD AM2 3800+ X2 and AM2 4200+ X2 for integer performance, but loses to the low end AMD dual cores for floating point and SSE2 performance.

The Sandra memory performance of the E4300 is actually very poor, only the Intel 805 D had a worse result. The cheapter AM2 3800+ X2 and similarly priced 4200+ X2 beat it here rather badly, with the 4200+ X2 beating it by a whopping 28.7%

WinRAR

The Intel E4300 does much better in WinRAR, beating previous generation Intel dual core processors and the cheaper and similarly priced AM2 processors. The vastly improved integer core really helps here.

WinRAR MT

There is no other way to put it - the E4300 is simply spanked here by higher end Core 2 Duo and Quad chips. The Core 2 Quad manages to be  essentially twice as fast.  This isn't a big problem since the other chips are targetted for more expensive price ranges but it does put your expectations here in persepective. Sorry, we don't have more WinRAR MT results at this time.