System Setup

System Setup

Intel Pentium 4 3.06GHz (Hyper Threading enabled)

ASUS P4G8X Deluxe E7205 Motherboard
ASUS P4PE i845PE Motherboard
ASUS P4T533-C i850E Motherboard

512MB Corsair XMS3200 CAS2 Memory
512MB Samsung PC1066 RDRAM

ATI RADEON 9700 Pro 128MB
Catalyst 2.4

30GB IBM Deskstar DTLA 307030 ATA-100 Hard Drive

Windows XP Professional with Service Pack 1

DirectX 8.1

Desktop resolution 1024x768, 32-bit color, 75Hz refresh

All power saving options were turned off, as were the Automatic Update and System Restore services. Graphics options under the ‘Performance’ tab were all disabled for maximum performance.

Benchmarks

Unreal Tournament 2003 Demo
3D Mark 2001 Second Edition Build 330 – 32-bit color
Quake III: Arena version 1.17 ‘Demo001’ demo
Serious Sam: The Second Encounter – 32-bit color, Elephant Atrium demo
Comanche 4
SiSoft Sandra 2003 Memory Bandwidth Benchmark

Lab Notes

The P4G8X ran flawlessly with CAS 1.5 memory timings, so we used those for our benchmark results. The P4PE ran CAS 2.0 timings and the P4T533-C ran in RDRAM 4x mode. All relevant boards also ran in Turbo mode. Graphics apertures were set at 128MB.