Crème De La Crème: Special Edition 815 Boards and Useful Add-Ons

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Test System
CPU Intel Pentium III, 866 MHz
RAM 1x 128 MByte SDRAM (Crucial)PC133, 7ns, CL2
Hard Disc Seagate Barracuda ATA, ST320430A20 GBytes, UltraDMA/66, 7200 rpm
Graphic Card NVIDIA GeForce 2 Ultra64 MB
Drivers & Software
HDD/Motherboard/ AGP Drivers Intel INF-Update for 815 and Busmaster IDE Drivers 6.03
Graphic Drivers NVIDIA Detonator 3 (V. 6.67)
DirectX Version 8.0a
OS Windows 98 SE 4.10.2222 AWindows 2000 Professional SP1
Benchmarks & Settings
Quake III Arena command line = +set cd_nocd 1 +set s_initsound 0Graphics detail set to High, 1024x768x16Benchmark using 'Q3DEMO1'
SPECviewperf 6.1.2 Advanced Visualizer
BAPCo SYSmark 2000 Official Run (Patch 5 installed)
MBTR Default Features1024x768x16
Screen Resolution 1024x768x16, 85 Hz
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.