Our Athlon Test Rig
Testing was conducted on an MSI K7 Master-S, a board featuring the AMD761 Chipset. The board was powered by an Athlon 1333 C. Windows 98SE and Windows XP Professional were the operating systems of choice.
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Hardware | |
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Processor | AMD Athlon 1333 MHz133 MHz FSB |
Motherboard | MSI K7 Master-S (MS-6341)AMD 760 |
Memory | 256 MB DDR-SDRAM, PC2100, CL2.0, 133 MHz |
HD | 40 GB, 5T040H4, MaxtorUDMA100 7200 rpm 2 MB Cache |
Graphic Cards | |
Nvidia GeForce2 Ultra | Chipclock: 250 MHzMemory: 64 MB DDR-SDRAMMemoryclock: 230 MHzNvidia Referencedriver v21.85 |
Nvidia GeForce3 | Chipclock: 200 MHzMemory: 64 MB DDR-SDRAMMemoryclock: 230 MHzNvidia Referencedriver v21.85 |
Nvidia GeForce3 Ti200 | Chipclock: 175 MHzMemory: 64 MB DDR-SDRAMMemoryclock: 200 MHzNvidia Referencedriver v21.85 |
Nvidia GeForce3 Ti500 | Chipclock: 240 MHzMemory: 64 MB DDR-SDRAMMemoryclock: 250 MHzNvidia Referencedriver v21.85 |
ATI Radeon 7500 | Chipclock: 290 MHzMemory: 64 MB DDR-SDRAMMemoryclock: 230 MHzATI driver: V4.13.7184 (Win98) |
ATI Radeon 8500 | Chipclock: 275 MHzMemory: 64 MB DDR-SDRAMMemoryclock: 275 MHzATI driver: V4.13.7191 (Win98)ATI driver: V6.13.3276 (WinXP) |
Drivers & Software | |
AGP (AMD) | Miniport Drivers 4.80 (Win98SE) |
DirectX version | 8.0a for NV and 8.1 RC2 for R8500 (Win98) - 8.1 (WinXP) |
Operatingsystem 1 | Windows 98 SE, Version 4.10.2222 A |
Operatingsystem 2 | Windows XP (V5.1 Build 2600) |
Benchmarks and settings | |
Evolva | DirectX 7 game with T&L Support |
Evolva Bump | DirectX 7 game with T&L Support(Testrun with Dot3 Bump Mapping enabled) |
Giants | DirectX 7 game with T&L Support |
Unreal Tournament | v4.36 - DirectX 7 game (Benchmark.dem) |
Quake3 v1.17 | OpenGL with HW Transformation Support (Demo001) |
RTCW | MP Test - OpenGL withHW Transformation Support (borsti1) |
Villagemark | Overdraw Test |
3DMark 2000 | Synthetic DirectX 7 Benchmark |
3DMark 2001 | Synthetic DirectX 8 Benchmark |
All tests were run in 32Bit color. The results for the lesser Radeon 7500 are taken from a previous article for that card, hence the older driver version.