Test Setup
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| Hardware | |
|---|---|
| CPUs | Intel Pentium 4 - 2000 MHz (400 MHz QDR FSB)Intel Celeron - 1300 MHz |
| Motherboards | |
| Pentium III Upgrade Platform | ABit BD6-II, i440BX Chipset |
| Pentium III Platform | Asus TUSL2-C, i815EPT Chipset |
| Pentium 4 Upgrade Platform | Asus P4T, i850 Chipset |
| Pentium 4 Platform | Asus P4B266 |
| RAM | |
| Pentium III Platform | 2x 128 MB PC133 SDRAM, Infineon, CL2 |
| Pentium 4 Platform | 4 x 128 MB PC800 RDRAM, Samsung, or2x 256 MB PC266 DDR-SDRAM, Infineon CL2 |
| Other Hardware | |
| Graphics Card | nVIDIA GeForce 3, 64 MB DDR-SDRAM |
| Hard Drive | IBM Deskstar 75 GXP, DTLA30703030 GB, UATA/100, 7,200 rpm |
| Drivers & Software | |
| Chipset Driver | 3.20.1008 |
| Graphics Driver | nVIDIA Detonator 30.82 |
| DirectX Version | 8.1 |
| OS | Windows XP, Version 5.10.2600 |
| Benchmarks & Settings | |
| Quake III Arena | Retail Version 1.16command line = +set cd_nocd 1 +set s_initsound 0Graphics detail set to 'Normal'Benchmark using 'Q3DEMO1' |
| MPEG-4 Encoding | Flask X4.5DivX Codec 5.02 |
| Sysmark 2001 | Patch 3 |
| Lame | Lame 3.89 MMX, SSE, SSE 2, 3DNow |
| WinACE | 2.04, 178 MB Wave file, best compression, Dictionary 4096 kB |
| Unreal Tournament | Patch 4.26UTBENCH.DEM |
Benchmark Results
As there was limited time available for this test, we only put the Socket 478 through the complete benchmark suite. We examined the system with the Socket 370 adapter only for stability. It was revealed here that the Pentium III architecture is entirely unproblematic. Even with the simple processor cooler included in the adapter package, there was nothing remarkable to report in the two benchmark tests we ran under SYSmark, with the notable exception of the high performance ratings provided by the Celeron 1300 on old systems.
