Comprehensive VIA motherboard roundup June 2000

Test Configuration

Of course we still used the same setup as before to keep the results comparable.

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Hardware
CPUIntel Pentium IIIEB, 800 MHz
RAM1x 128 MByte SDRAM (Micron/Crucial or Wichmann WorkX )PC133, 7ns, CL2
FestplatteSeagate Barracuda ATA, ST320430A20 GBytes, UltraDMA/66, 7200 U/Min.
GrafikkarteAsus V6600 AGP, nVIDIA GeForce 256, 32 MB SDRAM
Drivers & Software
HDD/Motherboard/ AGP driverVIA 4in1 driver Ver. 4.17AGP driver 4.00
Graphics Card driverNVIDIA Detonator 5.08 (Win 98) or 3.68 (Windows NT)
DirectX version7.0
OSWindows 98 SE 4.10.2222 AWindows NT 4.0 SP6a
Benchmarks & Setup
Quake III ArenaRetail Versioncommand line = +set cd_nocd 1 +set s_initsound 0Graphics detail set to 'Normal', 640x480x16Benchmark using 'Q3DEMO1'
ExpendableDownloadable Demo Versioncommand line = -timedemo640x480x16
Screen Resolution1024x768x16, 85 Hz