Overclocking

You can probably guess that the 0.13-micron manufacturing process opens up the potential for the Pentium III to be a great overclocker.  Our retail 1.2GHz processor was able to hit 1.44GHz (9 x 160MHz), unfortunately the board we tested on (ASUS TUSL2-C) would not allow voltage adjustments thus preventing us from getting a reliable set of benchmarks at 1.44GHz. 

With voltage adjustments you should be able to hit 1.35 – 1.5GHz pretty easily with the 1.2GHz Pentium III. 

The Test

Windows 2000 Test System

Hardware

CPU(s)

Intel Pentium III 1.2GHz
Intel Pentium III 1.0GHz

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) ASUS TUSL2-C MSI 850 Pro2 MSI K7T266 Pro
Memory

256MB PC133 Corsair SDRAM (Micron -7E CAS2)

256MB PC800 Samsung RDRAM
256MB PC2400 Corsair DDR SDRAM (CAS 2)
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 4.32V 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

3D Graphics
3D Studio MAX R4
Chipset & Motherboard Support Content Creation/Office Performance - Winstone 2001
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