The Economical Way to a Pentium 4 System: Five Motherboards with the SiS648 Chipset

Test Setup

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Hardware
Processor Intel Pentium 4, 2.26 GHz (133 MHz FSB)
Main memory 256 MB PC3200 CL2, Corsair Micro or Twinmos
Hard drive IBM DeskStar 60GXP, IC35040, 40 GB, 7,200 rpm, NTFS
Graphics card nVIDIA GeForce 4 Ti4200, 128 MB
Other Hardware
Network card 3COM 3C905-TX
Driver & Settings
Graphic drivers Detonator 4 series, Version 30.82
Chipset driver nVIDIA driver 1.13
DirectX Version 8.1
Screen resolution 1024x768x16, 85 HzSPECviewperf : 1280x1024x32, 85 Hz
Operating system Windows 2000 Professional SP3
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 2003 Official Demo
Comanche 4 Official Demo
WinACE 2.20, best compression, Dictionary 4096 kB
SPECviewperf Version 7.0, all tests
mpeg4 encoding Xmpeg 4.5DivX 5.02 Pro (YV12)Compression/quality : HighestData rate : 780 kBitFormat : 720x576 Pixel@25 fps150 MB VOB file, no audio
Sysmark 2002 Internet Content Creation
Lame MP3 Lame 3.91 MMX, SSE, SSE2, 3DNow !
PCMark 2002 Memory Bandwidth Benchmark
3DMark 2001SE Default resolution : 1024x768x32
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.