New Price-Performance Evaluation Added
For the first time I decided to include price-performance charts. The prices were taken from PriceWatch on August 28, 2000.
Test Setup
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| Hardware Setup | |
|---|---|
| SocketA Platform for AMD Athlon and Duron Processors | Asus A7V, BIOS 1003 final |
| Socket370 platform for Intel Pentium III and Celeron processors | Asus CUSL2, BIOS 1002beta2 |
| Memory | 128 MB Wichmann WorkX PC133 SDRAM CL2, setting 2-2-2-5/7 |
| Hard Drive for Windows 98 Tests | IBM DTLA-307030 ATA100 IDE, 30 GB, FAT32 |
| Hard Drive for Linux Test | Seagate ST320430A ATA66 IDE, 19 GB, ext2 |
| Graphics Card for Sysmark2000, Quake 3 Arena, Unreal Tournament and 3D Studio Max 2 | NVIDIA GeForce 2 GTS Reference CardCore Clock 200 MHz, Memory Clock 333 MHz, Driver 6.16 Detonator 3 |
| Graphics Card for SPECviewperf | NVIDIA Quadro2 Reference CardCore Clock 230 MHz, Memory Clock 400 MHz, Driver 6.16 Detonator 3 |
| Software Setup | |
| Windows Version | Windows98SE, 4.10.2222A |
| Windows Resolution for Sysmark2000 | 1024x768x16x85 |
| Windows Resolution for SPECviewperf | 1280x1024x32x85 |
| Linux Version | SuSE Linux 6.4, Kernel 2.2.14, THG benchmarking kernel, gcc 2.95.2 |
| Quake 3 Arena | Retail version |
| Unreal Tournament | Version 4.28 (patched) |
| SPECviewperf | Rev. 6.1.2 |
| 3D Studio Max | Rev. 2 |
