Pentium 4 with Dual DDR: Endurance Test of Seven Motherboards with the Granite Bay Chipset

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Hardware
ProcessorIntel Pentium 4 - 3.06 GHz(533 MHz FSB, Hyper-Threading)
RAM2x 256 MB Corsair Micro DDR333, CL2
Hard DriveWestern Digital WD2000JB, 200 GB, 7,200 rpm, 8 MB Cache
Graphics CardNVIDIA GeForce 4 Ti4600128 MB
Network Card3COM 3C905TX-B
Drivers & Software
IDE/AGP DriverIntel Application Accelerator 2.3
Graphics DriverDetonator 4 Serie V41.09
DirectX Version9
OSWindows XP 5.1.2600 Service Pack 1
Benchmarks
Quake III ArenaRetail VersionBenchmark using ’DEMO001’
SPECviewperfVersion 7.01280x1024x32x85
MPEG4 EncodingXMPEG 4.5DivX 5.02720x576 Pixel, 25 fpsno Audio
SYSmark 2002Internet Content CreationOffice Application Performance
LameLame 3.89
Unreal Tournament 2003Demo Version Benchmark
WinACEV2.04, 178 MB Wave-Date, Best Compression,Dictionary 4096 kB
Comanche 4Demo Version Benchmark
Synthetic BenchmarksPCMark 2002SiSoft Sandra 2003 Pro
3DStudio MaxVersion 5.1Dragon Scene1280x1024x32
Cinema 4DVersion 8Stairs Scene1280x1024
Newtek LightwaveVersion 7.5Skull Benchmark Scene8 ThreadsFull Quality
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.