System Setup

Intro

With all the Detonator versions running about, we decided to test the latest Windows 2000 driver, mainly because the version number was so much higher than that of the current official driver. Our curiousity was sufficiently piqued when combining this with the fact that NVIDIA rarely ever "leaks" drivers for Windows 2000 only. Enough with the talk, onto the numbers then.

Test System Setup

AMD Thunderbird 1400 MHz

Abit KT7A RAID KT133A
VIA 4in1 version 4.32

128MB Mushkin Rev3 PC133 CAS2 SDRAM

GeForce3
GeForce2 Ultra
GeForce2 MX
Driver version Detonator 12.41
Driver version Detonator 14.20

IBM 30 GB Hard Drive
Windows 2000

Benchmarks

3DMark 2001
3DMark2001 - 640x480x32
3DMark2001 - 800x600x32
3DMark2001 - 1024x768x32

Quake III
Quake 3 Retail - 640x480 Fastest, Normal, High Quality
Quake 3 Retail - 800x600 Fastest, Normal, High Quality
Quake 3 Retail - 1024x768 Fastest, Normal, High Quality
Quake 3 Retail - 1280x1024 Fastest, Normal, High Quality
Quake 3 Retail - 1600x1200 Fastest, Normal, High Quality

Notes

We chose the GeForce3, Ultra, and MX because they represent what is currently out on the market. We could add the TNT2 if demand warrants.