Test System Setup

The Components

Athlon 850
P3-600 @ 750MHz (Coppermine 7.5x100MHz)
Iwill Slocket II FCPGA to Slot-1 converter
MSI K7 Pro Motherboard
Abit BF6 Motherboard
Creative Labs TNT2 Ultra Video Card
Driver version 3.62
Apacer PC133 SDRAM - 1x128MB
Western Digital Caviar 102AA 10.2GB 5400RPM EIDE HD
Windows 98 SE

Benchmarks

Winbench 99 1.1 - 1024x768x16
CPUMark99
FPUMark

SiSoft Sandra 99 5.30 CPU tests - Dhrystone, Whetstone

Ziff Davis
Winstone 99 - 1024x768x16 Business Suite
CC Winstone2000

3DMark2000 - 640x480x16
3DMark2000 - 640x480x32
CPU

Quake 3 Retail - 640x480 Fastest, Normal, High Quality
Quake 3 Retail - 800x600 Fastest, Normal, High Quality

Unreal Tournament 405b - Intro Flyby 640x480x16
Unreal Tournament 405b - Intro Flyby 640x480x32
Unreal Tournament 405b - Intro Flyby 800x600x16
Unreal Tournament 405b - Intro Flyby 800x600x32
Unreal Tournament 405b - Intro Flyby 1024x768x16
Unreal Tournament 405b - Intro Flyby 1024x768x32

Notes

We chose to test on the MSI K7Pro because it uses the AMD 751 chipset with the new "Super Bypass" feature which reduces memory latencies between the CPU and system memory. We ran tests with and without Super Bypass enabled to show how much it actually improves performance. We also threw in a P3 Coppermine running at 750MHz for comparison. We're still waiting on our KX133 board, and we'll definitely have an article for our readers once it arrives.