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Test Setup: VIA Vs. Intel Vs. SiS

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Hardware
CPU Intel Pentium 4/2000 MHz (400 MHz QDR FSB), Sockel 478
Motherboards
VIA P4X266A VIA P4XB reference board Revision: NABios: P4XBS09p Datum: Nov 15, 2001
VIA P4X266 Shuttle AV40V12 Revision: 1.2Bios: AV40902E Date: Sep 5, 20001
Intel 850 ASUS P4T-E Revision: 1.00Bios:1005 BETA 002 Date: Dec 11, 2001
Intel 845 MSI 845 Pro 2 Revision: NABios: 1.0B7 Date: Aug 03, 2001
Intel 845D ASUS P4B266 Revision: 2.01Bios: 1003 Date: Dec 6, 2001
SIS 645 SIS SS51A reference boardBios: 645p14k9 Date: Sep 19, 2001
Memory
DDR266 Memory 256 MB, DDR266 PC2100 SDRAM CL2.0, Micron
RDRAM Memory 2 x 128 MB PC800 RDRAM, Viking
DDR333 Memory 256 MB DDR333 SDRAM CL2, Kingmax MPLB62D-68KX3
PC133 Memory 256 MB PC133 SDRAM CL2, Wichman WorkX
Common Hardware
Graphics Card GeForce 3Memory: 64 MB DDR-SDRAMMemory clock: 400 MHzChip clock: 250 MHz
Hard Disk 40 GB, 5T040H4, MaxtorUDMA100 7200 rpm, 2 MB Cache
Drivers & Software
Chipset driver (Intel) 3.20.1008
Chipset driver (VIA) 4in1 - V4.35
Graphics driver Detonator 4 Series V23.10
DirectX Version 8.1
OS Windows XP, Build 2600
Benchmarks and Settings
Quake III Arena Retail Version 1.16command line = +set cd_nocd 1 +set s_initsound 0Graphics detail set to 'Normal'Benchmark using 'Q3DEMO1'
SiSoft Sandra 2001 Professional Version 2001.3.7.50
Newtek Lightwave Rendering Bench SKULL_HEAD_NEWEST.LWS
mpeg4 encoding Flask X4.2ADivX-Codec 4.11Compression: 100Data Rate: 1500 kBitFormat: 720x480 Pixel@25 fpsno Audio
Studio 7 Version 7.07.1 (MPEG 2)
Sysmark 2001 Patch 3
Lame Lame 3.89 MMX, SSE, SSE 2, 3DNow
WinACE 2.04, 178 MB Wave-Datei, best compression, Dictonary 4096 kB
Suse Linux 7.3 Kernel 2.4.13 Compiling
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.