VIA's C3 Hits 1 GHz

Test Setup

Swipe to scroll horizontally
Test System
CPUs VIA C3 Processor, 1 GHzIntel Celeron 667Intel Celeron 1300
RAM 256 MB PC133 SDRAM, CL2, Infineon
Motherboard MSI MS-6368VIA PLE133T Chipset
Graphics Card VIA PLE133T Integrated Graphics
Network Controller Realtek RTL8100L - onboard
Hard Drive IBM DeskStar 60 GXP, IC3540 GB, 7.200 rpm, 2 MB cache
Drivers And Settings
Chipset/IDE/AGP Drivers VIA 4in1 4.38 V2
Graphics Drivers VIA 8601T, Ver. 5.12.01.3105
Screen Resolution 1024x768, 16 Bit, 85 Hz
Benchmarks and Software
OS Windows XP
Synthetic Benchmarks MadOnion PCMark 2002
SiSoft Sandra 2002 Pro Direct3D Benchmark
Unreal Tournament Ver 4.36 UTBENCH.DEM
OpenGL Benchmark Quake III Arena Timedemodemo001
File Compression WinACE 2.11D178 MB WAV fileMaximum Compression4096 kB Dictionary
MPEG4 Encoding DivX 5.02 ProXmpeg 4.5, 720x576, YUVDefault Settings plus auto crop
MP3 Encoding Lame 3.92178 MB WAV file
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.