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

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Hardware
Processor Intel Pentium 4 - 3.06 GHz(533 MHz FSB, Hyper-Threading)
RAM 2x 256 MB Corsair Micro DDR333, CL2
Hard Drive Western Digital WD2000JB, 200 GB, 7,200 rpm, 8 MB Cache
Graphics Card NVIDIA GeForce 4 Ti4600128 MB
Network Card 3COM 3C905TX-B
Drivers & Software
IDE/AGP Driver Intel Application Accelerator 2.3
Graphics Driver Detonator 4 Serie V41.09
DirectX Version 9
OS Windows XP 5.1.2600 Service Pack 1
Benchmarks
Quake III Arena Retail VersionBenchmark using ’DEMO001’
SPECviewperf Version 7.01280x1024x32x85
MPEG4 Encoding XMPEG 4.5DivX 5.02720x576 Pixel, 25 fpsno Audio
SYSmark 2002 Internet Content CreationOffice Application Performance
Lame Lame 3.89
Unreal Tournament 2003 Demo Version Benchmark
WinACE V2.04, 178 MB Wave-Date, Best Compression,Dictionary 4096 kB
Comanche 4 Demo Version Benchmark
Synthetic Benchmarks PCMark 2002SiSoft Sandra 2003 Pro
3DStudio Max Version 5.1Dragon Scene1280x1024x32
Cinema 4D Version 8Stairs Scene1280x1024
Newtek Lightwave Version 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.