DDR For AMD: 16 Boards With VIA KT266
Test Configuration: Special Features
Hardware | |
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CPU | AMD Athlon 1200 / 133 MHz FSB |
DDR-SDRAM | 128 MB at 133 MHz DDR, CL2, Micron |
SDRAM | 128 MB at 133 MHz CL2, Wichmann WorkX |
Hard disk | IBM DTLA-307030, 30.7 GBUltraDMA/100, 7200 RPM |
Graphics card 1 | Asus V7700 AGP, nVIDIA GeForce2 GTSMBMemory: 32 MB DDR-SDRAMMemory Clock: 166.5 MHz (DDR)Chip Clock: 199.7 MHz |
Graphics card 2 | Elsa Gloria 3Memory: 64 MB DDR SDRAMMemory Clock: 200.5 MHz (DDR)Chip Clock: 250.0 MHz |
Motherboard AMD 760 | MSI MS-6341Ver.: 1Bios: V1.1 |
Motherboard ALi Magik 1 | Asus A7A266Rev. 1004 Beta 002Bios: V 1.03. |
Motherboard VIA KT133A | Asus A7V133Rev.: 1.0Bios: 1005 |
Drivers & Software | |
IDE/AGP Driver | VIA 4 in 1 V4.32 FINAL |
Graphics drivers | Detonator 3 Series V6.32 |
DirectX Version | 8.0a |
Operating System | Windows 98 SE, Version 4.10.2222 A |
Benchmarks and Settings | |
Quake III Arena | Retail Versioncommand line = +set cd_nocd 1 +set s_initsound 0Graphics detail set to 'Normal', 640x480x16Benchmark using 'Q3DEMO1' |
Sysmark 2000 | Patch 4B1024x768x16 |
ViewPerf | Version 6.1.21280x1024x16x85 |
Refresh Rate | 85 Hz for all tests, V-Sync = off |
Linux Kernel Compilation | SuSE Linux 6.4, Kernel 2.2.14, THG benchmarking kernel, gcc 2.95.2 |
Flask MPEG-4-Encoding | Video Codec: DivX 3.11 alpha, Fast-Motion, keyframe every 10 seconds, compression 100, data rate 910 kbpsAudio Codec: audio not processedVideo Resolution: 720x480, 29.97 fps, interlacedResizing: Nearest Neighbor |
We also wish to make a few comments regarding the various test systems, all of which we subjected to the same procedure: The DDR-SDRAM memory modules we used are special modules with a CAS latency of 2, which are currently not available over the counter. On the other hand, the AMD Athlon 1200 can only perform to capacity in conjunction with CL2. As a comparison with the other DDR platforms, we have included the benchmarks of the ALi Magik 1, VIA KT133A (SDRAM), SiS 735 and AMD 760 chipsets and depicted these in a different color (light green) in the diagrams.
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