Our Athlon Test Rig

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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
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.