Back To The Future: Serial ATA Arrives At Last

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Test System
Processor Intel Pentium 4, 2.26 GHz, 512 kB L2 cache (Northwood)
Motherboard ABit IT7-MAX2, 845E chipset
RAM 256 MB DDR/PC2100, CL2Micron/Crucial
IDE controller i845E UltraDMA/100 controller (ICH4)HighPoint HPT374 serial ATA(bridges from Marvell)
Display adapter NVIDIA GeForce 3, 64 MB DDR
Network 3COM 905TX PCI 100 MBit
Operating system Windows 2000 Pro 5.00.2195Service Pack 3
Benchmarks & Measurements
Office applications ZD WinBench 99 - Business Disk Winmark 1.2
High-end applications ZD WinBench 99 - high-end disk Winmark 1.2
Performance measurement ZD WinBench 99 - disk inspection test
I/O performance Intel I/O meter
Drivers & Settings
Graphics driver NVIDIA reference driver 29.42
IDE driver Intel Application Accelerator 2.2
DirectX version 8.1
Screen resolution 1024x768, 16 bit, 85 Hz refresh
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Patrick Schmid
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.