Hardware

CPU(s)	AMD Duron 800
Heatsink & Fan	Global Win FOP38
Motherboard(s)	Soyo K7VTA
Memory	128 MB Micron -e8 SDRAM
Hard Drive(s)	Maxtor DiamondMax 80
CD-ROM	Sony 48X
Sound Card	On board 3D Surround (AC97 Codec)
Video Card	ATI All-in-Wonder 32MB DDR

Software

Operating System	Windows ME
Video / VIA Drivers	VIA 4.25 4in1 drivers with VIA 4.04AGP driver ATI 4.13.7041 WHQL All-in-Wonder drivers Microsoft DirectX 7.1
	Benchmarking Applications
OpenGL	Quake III Arena v1.25
DirectX	Madonion 3DMark 2000 v1.
Other	Sisoft Sandra 2001

 

Once again Soyo has included their Soyo Combo Menu in the Award BIOS. This is very handy for those quick system tweaks. Once you enter the BIOS the Soyo menu is the first one on the list and includes all the functions which you are likely to be changing often.

With the recent explosion in CPU performance, RAM bandwidth is one component which is both very performance limiting and sensitive to tweaking. In all of our testing, we used the default BIOS options with the onboard legacy audio turned off and RAM set to 133MHz @ CAS 3.

On the video card, we used the default settings in the ATI drivers for both OpenGL and DirectX.

 

Performance