The 150 MHz Project, Part 2

Game Benchmarks: Quake III Arena - Demo001

Quake III is even more clock speed sensitive. It's incredible how a CuMine 900/150 is still slightly faster than the Gigahertz-CPU at 133 MHz FSB! Clocked at 750/150 MHz using a Common Pentium III 667 model, Quake III runs just as fast as on a Pentium III 866! Did you notice the bad performance of the Pentium III 800/100? At 150 MHz FSB, you will only need 600 MHz core clock in order to have higher frame rates.

Patrick Schmid
Editor-in-Chief (2005-2006)

Patrick Schmid was the editor-in-chief for Tom's Hardware from 2005 to 2006. He wrote numerous articles on a wide range of hardware topics, including storage, CPUs, and system builds.