Changing Of The Guard: Four Athlon Motherboards For DDR400

Test Setup

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Hardware
Processor AMD Athlon XP 2600+
RAM 512 MB PC3200 CL2.5, TwinMos
Hard Drive IBM DeskStar 60GXP, IC35040, 40 GB, 7,200 rpm
Graphics Card nVIDIA GeForce 4 TI 4600, 128 MB DDR
General Hardware
Network Card 3COM 3C905-TX
Hard Drive 40 GB, 5T040H4, Maxtor, NTFSUDMA100 7200 rpm 2 MB Cache
Drivers, Softwares, Settings
Graphics Driver Detonator 4 Series Version 30.82
Chipset and AGP Driver VIA 4in1 4.42v
DirectX Version 8.1
Resolution 1024x768x16, 85 HzWith SPECviewperf: 1280x1024x32, 85 Hz
OS Windows XP Professional, Ver. 5.1.2600
Benchmarks
Quake III Arena Retail Version 1.16command line = +set cd_nocd 1 +set s_initsound 0Graphics detail set to 'Normal'Benchmark using 'Q3DEMO1'
Unreal Tournament Patch 4.26, UTBENCH-Demo
3DMark2001 Pro Build 200 - default Benchmark
PCMark2002 Pro only CPU and Memory Bench (no Video Memory)
SiSoft Sandra 2001 Professional Version 2001.3.7.50
SPECviewperf Version 7.0
mpeg4 encoding Xmpeg 4.5DivX 5.02 Pro (YV12)Compression/quality: SlowestData Rate: 780 kBitFormat: 720x576 Pixel@25 fps150 MB VOB file, no Audio
Sysmark 2002 no Patch
Lame Lame 3.91 MMX, SSE, SSE2, 3DNow!
WinACE 2.11, 178 MB Wave file, Best Compression,Dictionary 4096 kB
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.