Benchmarking
Setup
Hardware
| CPU |
Intel
Pentium 3 933 @ 933MHz and 980MHz
|
| Heatsink
& Fan |
Intel
Retail
|
| Motherboard |
Abit
SE6 rev 1.0 w/SW BIOS
|
| Memory |
Mushkin 128MB CAS2 PC133 (384MB total)
|
| Hard
Drive |
IBM
30.7GB 75GXP 7200 RPM ATA100
|
|
CD-ROM
|
Plextor
12-10-32 IDE CD-RW
|
| Sound
Card |
Onboard
AC97
|
| Video
Card |
LeadTek
Winfast GTS 64MB (200 mem/333 core)
|
Software
| Operating
System |
Windows
98SE
|
| Video
Drivers |
Detonator
5.22
|
| |
Benchmarking
Applications
|
| OpenGL |
From
Quake 3 Area version 1.11: demo0001 "N" (640x480@16bpp),
demo001 "H" (1024x768@32bpp). |
| DirectX |
From
Unreal Tournament version 420: UTBench.dem "N" (640x480@16bit),
UTBench.dem "H" (1024x768@32bpp). From 3DMark2000 build
335: default benchmark at 1024x768@16bpp (3DMarks). |
| Other |
From
WinTune98 version 42: D3D (MP/s), OpenGL (MP/s), Memory
(MB/s). Video Tests ran at 1024x768@16bpp. SiSoft Sandra 200 Professional.
HDTach version 2.61. |
Hard Drive Tests
Very few reviewers bother
to test the hard drive controller. How would you like to purchase your next
MB only to find out that your shiny new ATA100 drive is limited to ATA66 or
worse, ATA33 performance? My biggest gripe with most VIA 133A chipsetted MB's
is that ATA66 support is nonexistent. It's supposed to be there, but I've
yet to test one that actually works. In any case, ATA66 is dead, long live
ATA100!
I about fell off my chair
when the peak tests completed: over 80MB/s peak transfer rate! Only the inherent
limit of the outdated HDTach program kept me from seeing anything higher.
I hope the writers update it soon.
