The Test

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Windows 98SE / 2000 Test System

Hardware

CPU(s)

Intel Pentium 4 1.8GHz
Intel Pentium 4 1.5GHz
Intel Pentium 4 1.3GHz
AMD Athlon-C "Thunderbird" 1.4GHz
AMD Athlon-C "Thunderbird" 1.2GHz
AMD Athlon MP "Palomino" 1.2GHz
Motherboard(s) MSI 850 Pro2 MSI K7T266 Pro
Memory

256MB PC2100 Corsair SDRAM
256MB PC800 Samsung RDRAM

Hard Drive

IBM Deskstar 30GB 75GXP 7200 RPM Ultra ATA/100

CDROM

Phillips 48X

Video Card(s)

NVIDIA GeForce3 64MB DDR (default clock - 200/230 DDR)

Ethernet

Linksys LNE100TX 100Mbit PCI Ethernet Adapter

Software

Operating System

Windows 2000 Professional Service Pack 2

Video Drivers

NVIDIA Detonator3 v12.41 @ 1024 x 768 x 16 @ 85Hz
VIA 4-in-1 4.29V was used for all VIA based boards

Benchmarking Applications

Gaming

Quake III Arena v1.29f demo four
AquaMark V22
DroneZ Benchmark

Productivity

Winstone 2001
BAPCo SYSMark 2001
Office Bench 2001

3D Graphics
3D Studio MAX R4
Truespace 4.2 Public Benchmark
The Competition Content Creation/Office Performance
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