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New Price-Performance Evaluation Added

New Price-Performance Evaluation Added

For the first time I decided to include price-performance charts. The prices were taken from PriceWatch on August 28, 2000.

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Hardware Setup
SocketA Platform for AMD Athlon and Duron Processors	Asus A7V, BIOS 1003 final
Socket370 platform for Intel Pentium III and Celeron processors	Asus CUSL2, BIOS 1002beta2
Memory	128 MB Wichmann WorkX PC133 SDRAM CL2, setting 2-2-2-5/7
Hard Drive for Windows 98 Tests	IBM DTLA-307030 ATA100 IDE, 30 GB, FAT32
Hard Drive for Linux Test	Seagate ST320430A ATA66 IDE, 19 GB, ext2
Graphics Card for Sysmark2000, Quake 3 Arena, Unreal Tournament and 3D Studio Max 2	NVIDIA GeForce 2 GTS Reference CardCore Clock 200 MHz, Memory Clock 333 MHz, Driver 6.16 Detonator 3
Graphics Card for SPECviewperf	NVIDIA Quadro2 Reference CardCore Clock 230 MHz, Memory Clock 400 MHz, Driver 6.16 Detonator 3
Software Setup
Windows Version	Windows98SE, 4.10.2222A
Windows Resolution for Sysmark2000	1024x768x16x85
Windows Resolution for SPECviewperf	1280x1024x32x85
Linux Version	SuSE Linux 6.4, Kernel 2.2.14, THG benchmarking kernel, gcc 2.95.2
Quake 3 Arena	Retail version
Unreal Tournament	Version 4.28 (patched)
SPECviewperf	Rev. 6.1.2
3D Studio Max	Rev. 2

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