The CPU Articles
- Attack: Duron 1200 Takes On the Pentium 4
- AMD Turns Up The Heat: Athlon XP 1900+
- Athlon XP Meets P4: A Comparison Of All CPUs
- Performance Matters: AMD Introduces AthlonXP Processor
- Lo-Cost Duel: Duron 1100 vs. Celeron 1200
- Last Passing Maneuver: Tualatin 1266 With 512 kB Versus Athlon And P4
- Hot Spot: How Modern Processors Cope With Heat Emergencies
- Hot Microprocessor News
- Intel Beats AMD To 2 GHz
- AMD's Duron Reaches The Giga Hertz Barrier
News
Reviews
- Intel or Nvidia? nForce 680i Challenges Intel P965 and 975X
- Intel Roadmap News 10/2000: Part Two, Intel's Future Mobile and...
- Intel's Next Paper Release: The Pentium III at 1133 MHz
- Are Intel's Integrated Graphics Processors Good Enough for Gaming?
- Intel's Big Kick Off: 925XE Chipset and P4EE 3.46 GHz
Forum
- Read the power supply faq's still a tad confused
- Intel Pentium E2200 2.2Ghz or Dual core 2.6 GHz Intel Pentium D?
- Building new Rig, Questions about 9850BE
- So, I'm buying a new PC...
- All Aboard the Failcopter: Don't use Ruiz in your Advertising
- A simple question about overclocking
- Overclocking the 9850 X4 phenom
- Q6700 justified?
- Q6600 @ 3.2ghz problem
- My Q6600 can't get over 3.0Ghz
Testing Procedure And Peculiarities
Table of Contents:
Testing Procedure And Peculiarities
| Intel Hardware
Socket 478 |
|
|---|---|
| Processor | Intel Pentium 4/1700 MHz (400 MHz QDR FSB)
Intel Celeron 1200 MHz (100 MHz FSB) Intel Celeron 1300 MHz (100 MHz FSB) |
| Motherboard 1 | ASUS P4T-E (I850) Revision: 1.00 |
| Motherboard 2 | ASUS TUSL2-C (I815EPT) Revision: 1.04 |
| Memory 1 | 2 x 128 MB, RDRAM, 400 MHz, Viking |
| Memory 2 | 1 x 256 MB, SDRAM, 100 MHz, CL2, Micron |
| AMD Hardware
Socket 462 |
|
| Processor | AMD Athlon XP 1500+ (1333/266 MHz DDR)
AMD Athlon 1400 MHz (1400/266 MHz DDR) AMD Duron 1200 MHz (1200/200 MHz DDR) |
| Motherboard | EPOX EP-8KHA+ (VIA KT266A) Revision: 2.0 |
| Memory | 256 MB DDR-SDRAM, CL2, PC2100, Micron |
| General Hardware | |
| Graphics Card | GeForce 3
Memory: 64 MB DDR-SDRAM Memory Clock: 400 MHz Chip Clock: 250 MHz |
| Hard Drive | 40 GB, 5T040H4, Maxtor
UDMA100, 7200 rpm, 2 MB Cache |
| Drivers & Software | |
| Graphics Driver | Detonator 4 Series V21.88 |
| DirectX Version | 8.1 |
| OS | Windows XP, Build 2600 (English) |
| Benchmarks & Settings | |
| Quake III Arena | Retail Version 1.16
command line = +set cd_nocd 1 +set s_initsound 0 Graphics detail set to 'Normal' Benchmark using 'Q3DEMO1' |
| 3DMark2000 | Version 1.1 Build 340 - default Benchmark |
| 3DMark2001 | Build 200 - default Benchmark |
| SiSoft Sandra 2001 | Professional Version 2001.3.7.50 |
| Newtek Lightwave | Rendering Bench SKULL_HEAD_NEWEST.LWS |
| mpeg4 encoding | Flask V0.6 (MPEG 3)
DivX 4.02.01 Compression: 100 Data Rate: 1500 kbit Format: 720x480 Pixel@25 fps no Audio |
| Studio 7 | Version 7.02.7 (MPEG 2) |
| Sysmark 2001 | Patch 3 |
| Lame | Lame 3.89 MMX, SSE, SSE 2, 3DNow |
| WinACE | 2.04, 178 MB Wave file, Best Compression,
Dictonary 4096 kB |
| Cinema 4D XL R6 | CineBench 6.103 |
| Suse Linux 7.3 | Kernel 2.4.13 Compilation |

We'd be up a creek without a suitable board with an 815EPT chipset.
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