Testing The E-Class: 9 Pentium 4 Motherboards With The 845E Chipset

Test Setup

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Hardware
Processor Intel Pentium 4/2200 MHz (133 MHz QDR FSB)
Memory 256 MB, PC2100, 133 MHz, CL2.0, Micron
Hard Drive Western Digital WD1000JB, 100 GB, 7.200 U/Min, 2 MB Cache
Graphics Card GeForce 3Memory: 64 MB DDR-SDRAMMemory Clock: 400 MHzChip Clock: 250 MHz
Motherboard Asus P4T-E
Drivers & Software
IDE/AGP Driver Intel Intel Application Accelerator 1.12
Graphics Driver Detonator 4 Serie V23.11
DirectX Version 8.1
OS Windows 2000 SP2 und SRP1
Benchmarks and Settings
Quake III Arena Retail Versioncommand line = +set cd_nocd 1 +set s_initsound 0Graphics detail set to 'Normal', 640x480x16Benchmark using 'Q3DEMO1'
ViewPerf Version 6.1.21280x1024x16x85
Frame rate 85 Hz for all Tests, V-Sync = off
mpeg4 encoding Flask V0.6 (MPEG 3)DivX V4.02.01bCompression: 100Data Rate: 1500 kBit720x480 Pixel, 25 fpsno Audio
Sysmark 2000 Patch 3
Lame Lame 3.89 MMX, SSE, SSE 2
WinACE V2.04, 178 MB Wave-Date, Best Compression,Dictonary 4096 kB
Unreal Tournament Version 4.36Timedemo 1Demoplay utbench
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.