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Benchmarking
Setup
Hardware
| CPU(s) |
AMD
Athlon 1200 @ 900 MHz (200 MHz FSB)
|
| Heatsink
& Fan |
3dfxCOOL
Big MoFoHo
| | Motherboard(s) |
Soltek
SL-75KAV
| | Memory |
128 MB Mushkin PC133
|
| Hard
Drive(s) |
Western
Digital 27 GB ATA66
| |
CD-ROM |
EPO
50x, 10x DVD
| | Sound
Card |
On
board 3D Surround (AC97 Codec)
| | Video
Card |
X-Micro
Impact 4 Pro (GeForce 2 Pro)
| Software
| Operating
System |
Windows
ME
| | Video
/ VIA Drivers |
nVIdia 21.83 final release, VIA 4in1 4.32v
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Benchmarking
Applications | | OpenGL |
Quake
III Arena
|
| DirectX |
Microsoft
DirectX 8.0a
|
| Other |
Madonion
3DMark 2000 v1.1, 3D Mark 2001, SiSoft Sandra 2K1 Pro
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I was able to reach 1.2
GHz with this CPU successfully which is a big improvement over the Tyan Trinity
KTa that I tested before. Both boards are KT133A based but I had suspected
that the Tyan board was having problems not related to the chipset. In order
to achieve a comparison between two smiliar boards I decided to test the SL-75KAV
at 900 MHz also so that we can have a direct comparison to work with. This
meant retesting with the Tyan KTa since the release of newer nVidia drivers,
VIA 4 in 1s and most importantly, the inclusion of the GeForce 2 Pro which
would naturally deliver better performance over the GeForce 2 GTS I had used
during the Tyan review. 
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