New Hope For Athlon - The VIA Apollo KX133 Chipset

Benchmark Setup

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Hardware Information
CPUAMD Athlon 800
KX133 MotherboardVIA VT5249B1 Reference Board, BIOS date Jan 4, 2000
Irongate MotherboardAsus K7M, BIOS date Jan 21, 2000, Super Bypass not enabled
Memory128 MB Micron/Crucial Technologies PC133 CAS2
NetworkNetgear FA310TX
Graphics CardNVIDIA GeForce256 DDR Reference Board
Driver Information
GeForce256Reference Driver 3.68
KX133 Chipset DriversVIA 4in1 4.18
Environment Settings
OS VersionWindows 98 SE 4.10.2222 A / Windows NT SP6a
DirectX Version7.0
Quake 3 ArenaRetail Versioncommand line = +set cd_nocd 1 +set s_initsound 0
ExpendableDownloadable Demo VersionCommand Line Setting '-timedemo'
Descent IIIRetail versionSettings = -nosound -nomusic -nonetwork -timetest
Quake 2Retail Version, 3.20, plus AMD 3DNow!-Patch

Resolution for all 3D-games:

640x480, 16-bit Color, 85 Hz Refresh Rate

Resolution for Sysmark2000 under Windows98:

1024x768, 16-bit Color, 85 Hz Refresh Rate

Resolution for Sysmark2000 under WindowsNT:

1280x1024, 32-bit Color, 85 Hz Refresh Rate

Resolution for SPECviewperf under both OS:

1280x1024, 32-bit Color, 85 Hz Refresh Rate