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 MX DH Pro
|
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.
|
You can't beat the value
of AMD's processors right now. Although this video card is targeted for the
budget market it is very reasonable to believe that people will be able to
afford a CPU like the Athlon 900 I used for testing here. For less money you
could use a Duron 800 and get results that were just a little lower to the
ones I got with the Athlon 900.
I've seen quite a few
reports of problems with nVidia's 6.50 final realease drivers. I haven't experienced
any of these and continue to use them. 
