Index
Removing the first bottleneck: DDR SDRAM
New Chipset, New FSB, New CPUs
Rounding out the solution
The Board
New Test Bed & New Benchmarks
AnandTech uses SPEC CPU2000 for the first time
The Test
Illustrating the need for DDR - Linpack
SPEC CFP2000 Performance
SPEC CFP2000 Breakdown
SPEC CFP2000 Breakdown (continued)
SPECfp2000 Performance Summary
Gaming Performance - Quake III Arena
Gaming Performance - MDK2
Gaming Performance - UnrealTournament
Gaming Performance - Expendable
Content Creation Performance - SYSMark 2000
Content Creation & High End Performance - Winstone
Professional OpenGL Performance - SPECviewperf
Professional OpenGL Performance - SPECviewperf (continued)
Memory Bandwidth Measurements - STREAM
Issues
Final Words
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
Index
Removing the first bottleneck: DDR SDRAM
New Chipset, New FSB, New CPUs
Rounding out the solution
The Board
New Test Bed & New Benchmarks
AnandTech uses SPEC CPU2000 for the first time
The Test
Illustrating the need for DDR - Linpack
SPEC CFP2000 Performance
SPEC CFP2000 Breakdown
SPEC CFP2000 Breakdown (continued)
SPECfp2000 Performance Summary
Gaming Performance - Quake III Arena
Gaming Performance - MDK2
Gaming Performance - UnrealTournament
Gaming Performance - Expendable
Content Creation Performance - SYSMark 2000
Content Creation & High End Performance - Winstone
Professional OpenGL Performance - SPECviewperf
Professional OpenGL Performance - SPECviewperf (continued)
Memory Bandwidth Measurements - STREAM
Issues
Final Words
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