Benchmarking
Setup
Hardware
| CPU(s) |
AMD
Athlon @ 900 MHz
|
| Heatsink
& Fan |
3dfxCOOL
Socket A-HO Fan
|
| Motherboard(s) |
AOpen
AK73 Pro
|
| Memory |
128 MB Micron PC100 Cas2 SDRAM @ 133 MHz
|
| Hard
Drive(s) |
Western
Digital 27 GB ATA66
|
|
CD-ROM |
EPO
50x, 10x DVD
|
| Sound
Card |
On
board 3D Surround (AC97 Codec)
|
| Video
Card |
Leadtek
GeForce2 GTS 64 MB (enhanced)
|
Software
| Operating
System |
Windows
ME
|
| Video
/ VIA Drivers |
nVIdia 6.50 final release, VIA 4in1 4.28a
|
| |
Benchmarking
Applications |
| OpenGL |
Quake
III Arena
|
| DirectX |
Microsoft
DirectX 8.0
|
| Other |
Madonion
3DMark 2000 v1.1.
|
AMD sent another great
CPU for test purposes. Its actually a 1.2 GHz Athlon that is designed for
a 133 MHz CPU bus - but at the standard 100 MHz FSB it becomes an Athlon 900.
I think that is more representative of what a lot of people will be buying/using
soon so I decided to go with that speed instead. Right after I did all my
initial testing the 6.50 drivers were officially released so I had to repeat
the tests. We had been using the 6.31 drivers for so long I was beginning
to wonder if the purchase of 3dfx had made nVidia step down the release schedule
of new drivers for a while. 
