Episode II: Attack of the Chipsets - Intel 845E and 845G for 533 MHz FSB and DDR-SDRAM

OpenGL: Quake III Arena

Quake III Arena is dominated by 850E and 845G. This benchmark is still in use because Q3 remains one of the most popular 3D shooters and, more importantly, changes in CPU, memory or graphics performance can immediately be noticed in the benchmark results.

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.