Leading by Speeding: Solano at 166 MHz

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By Patrick Schmid
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Test Configuration

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Test system
CPUSeveral Intel Pentium III CPUs
MotherboardAsus CUSL2, Intel 815 Chipsatz
RAM128 MB PC133 SDRAM, 7ns (Crucial/Micron or Wichmann Workx). CL3 at 166 MHz
Hard DriveSeagate Barracuda ATA ST320430A20 GBytes, 7200 rpmIntel UltraATA Drivers Ver. 6.0
Graphics cardAsus V6600, nVIDIA GeForce 25632 MByte SDRAMnVIDIA Drivers 5.08 for Windows 98
OSWindows 98 SE 4.10.2222 A
Benchmarks and Setup
Office ApplicationBAPCo SYSmark2000
OpenGL Game-BenchmarkQuake III ArenaRetail Versioncommand line = +set cd_nocd 1 +set s_initsound 0Graphics detail set to 'Normal', 640x480x16Benchmark using 'Q3DEMO1'
Direct3D Game-BenchmarkExpendableDownloadable Demo Versioncommand line = -timedemo640x480x16
Screen Resolution1024x768x85, 16 Bit
DirectX-Version7.0a

As already mentioned above, I had to reduce all SDRAM timings to the slowest settings in order to ensure system stability. Again, I used the Asus V6600 GeForce graphics card with SDR memory, so that the benchmark results can still be compared to all the preceding articles:

Patrick Schmid