Leading by Speeding: Solano at 166 MHz

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Test system
CPU Several Intel Pentium III CPUs
Motherboard Asus CUSL2, Intel 815 Chipsatz
RAM 128 MB PC133 SDRAM, 7ns (Crucial/Micron or Wichmann Workx). CL3 at 166 MHz
Hard Drive Seagate Barracuda ATA ST320430A20 GBytes, 7200 rpmIntel UltraATA Drivers Ver. 6.0
Graphics card Asus V6600, nVIDIA GeForce 25632 MByte SDRAMnVIDIA Drivers 5.08 for Windows 98
OS Windows 98 SE 4.10.2222 A
Benchmarks and Setup
Office Application BAPCo SYSmark2000
OpenGL Game-Benchmark Quake III ArenaRetail Versioncommand line = +set cd_nocd 1 +set s_initsound 0Graphics detail set to 'Normal', 640x480x16Benchmark using 'Q3DEMO1'
Direct3D Game-Benchmark ExpendableDownloadable Demo Versioncommand line = -timedemo640x480x16
Screen Resolution 1024x768x85, 16 Bit
DirectX-Version 7.0a

As already mentioned above, I had to reduce all SDRAM timings to the slowest settings in order to ensure system stability. Again, I used the Asus V6600 GeForce graphics card with SDR memory, so that the benchmark results can still be compared to all the preceding articles:

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.