Benchmarking
Setup
Hardware
| CPU(s) |
AMD
Athlon XP 1800+ (1533 MHz) |
| Heatsink
& Fan | |
| Motherboard(s) |
FIC AN11 |
| Memory |
256 MB DDR PC2100 (266 MHz) |
| Hard
Drive(s) | Western
Digital 27 GB ATA66 |
|
CD-ROM |
EPO
50x, Philips 8x CDRW |
| Sound
Card | On
board 3D Surround (AC97 Codec) |
| Video
Card | X-Micro
GeForce2 Pro |
Software
| Operating
System | Windows
2000 Professional SP-2 |
| Video
/ VIA Drivers |
nVidia 23.11 drivers / VIA 4.37(v) 4-in-1 drivers |
| | Benchmarking
Applications |
| OpenGL |
Quake
III Arena |
| DirectX |
Microsoft
DirectX 8.1 |
| Other |
Madonion
3DMark 2000 v1.1, 3D Mark 2001 |
We
continue to soldier on with a GeForce2 flavored video card. Yes, we had hoped
to see GeForce3 cards enter our lab but few companies are sending out samples
with such tight profit margins. Also, consider that GeForce4 cards should be hitting
store shelves any day now and you can also see why GeForce3 cards aren't coming
to us.
I have
continued to use the ThermoEngine heatsink that was provided by 1COOLPC
. I continue to be very impressed by its performance and of course I am still
using the copper shim that Bart sent to use with the ThermoEngine.
