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Johan of Anandtech says I still have a hard timing believing the halflife scores. What makes halflife so special that it accelerates 30% while most games show 10%? There is no SSE-4 in halflife. There is a 10% increase in memory performance, and about 15% higher SSE performance. That can not give a 30% gaming increase as games are hardly carefully optimized for SSE.

Charlie of INQ says I can't talk now other than to say believe it. Really. If anything, this [30% for HL2 same clock] underrepresents the improvements. More when I can.

Ooh

http://www.hkepc.com/bbs/hwdb.php?ti...iew&rid=837360
BTW, HKEPC says HL2 is square root heavy and Penryn's improved divider helps.
I'm still thinking the same. Why does half life 2 increases that much and other games are just 10%?

Well maybe higher cache higher boost. That is definitely strange.