The Test

Windows 98SE / 2000 Test System

Hardware

CPU(s)

Intel Pentium III 1GHz

AMD Thunderbird 1.2GHz
AMD Thunderbird 1GHz

Motherboard(s) ASUS CUSL2/Intel OR840/Intel VC820 ASUS A7V/AMD Corona Reference Board
Memory

256MB PC133 Corsair SDRAM (Micron -7E CAS2)
256MB PC800 Samsung RDRAM
256MB PC2100 Micron DDR SDRAM (CAS 2.5)

Hard Drive

IBM Deskstar 30GB 75GXP 7200 RPM Ultra ATA/100

CDROM

Phillips 48X

Video Card(s)

NVIDIA GeForce 2 GTS 32MB DDR (default clock - 200/166 DDR)

Ethernet

Linksys LNE100TX 100Mbit PCI Ethernet Adapter

Software

Operating System

Windows 98 SE
Windows 2000 Professional SP1

Video Drivers

NVIDIA Detonator3 v6.31 @ 1024 x 768 x 16 @ 75Hz
NVIDIA Detonator3 v6.31 @ 1280 x 1024 x 32 (SPECviewperf) @ 75Hz
VIA 4-in-1 4.24A was used for all VIA based boards

Benchmarking Applications

Gaming

Unreal Tournament 4.32 Reverend's Thunder.dem
Quake III Arena v1.16n demo001.dm3
MDK2 Timedemo
Expendable Timedemo

Productivity

BAPCo SYSMark 2000
Ziff Davis Content Creation Winstone 2000
Ziff Davis High-End Winstone 99
SPECviewperf 6.1.2

Low Level
Linpack
SPEC CPU2000 (Intel C/C++ & Fortran Compilers 4.5, Compaq Visual Fortran 6.5, MS Visual C++ 6.0)
SiSoft Sandra
HD-Tach 2.61
AnandTech uses SPEC CPU2000 for the first time Illustrating the need for DDR - Linpack
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