Test System Setup

Our Test Systems

Intel Pentium 3 733 processor (engineering sample) (x2)
Intel Pentium 3 600 processor (x2)
128MB PC800 Rambus DRAM
Apacer PC133 SDRAM - 1x128MB
840 dual processor motherboard
Supermicro Super P6DBE rev. 3.0
NVIDIA GeForce 256 32MB DDR SGRAM reference board
     Driver version 3.53
NVIDIA GeForce 256 32MB SDRAM reference board
     Driver version 3.53
Creative Labs 3D Blaster Riva TNT2 Ultra (150/183)
     Driver version 3.53
Western Digital 102AA 10.2GB EIDE HD
Windows NT 4.0 Service Pack 6

Benchmarks

Ziff Davis Winbench 99 1.1 - 1024x768x16
CPUMark99
FPUMark
Business
High-end

Ziff Davis Winstone 99 1.2- 1024x768x16
Business Suite
Dual Processor Inspection Tests

Quake II 3.20 Demo1 - 640x480x16
Quake II 3.20 Demo1 - 800x600x16
Quake II 3.20 Demo1 - 1024x768x16

Quake II 3.20 Crusher - 640x480x16
Quake II 3.20 Crusher - 800x600x16
Quake II 3.20 Crusher - 1024x768x16

Q3Test 1.08 - 512x384 Fastest, Normal, High Quality
Q3Test 1.08 - 640x480 Fastest, Normal, High Quality
Q3Test 1.08 - 800x600 Fastest, Normal, High Quality
Q3Test 1.08 - 1024x768 Fastest, Normal, High Quality
Q3Test 1.08 - 1280x960 Fastest, Normal, High Quality
Q3Test 1.08 - 1600x1200 Fastest, Normal, High Quality

Notes

We're testing out the new Ziff Davis 2000 benchmarks. We found several incompatibility problems between the new benchmarks and the newest video cards, but we heard at Comdex that all the problems are now fixed. The Expendable tests were tossed due to D3D problems, and SiSoft SANDRA doesn't work with NT -that means no Dhrystone, Whetstone, or MMX scores.

We're still using the old 1.08 Quake 3 Test numbers because we originally ran the benchmarks right before Comdex, and using the new demotest would be foolish now seeing how Q3 has gone gold. We've upped the resolution count to six different resolutions to satisfy Quakers of all shapes and sizes. All Q3test timedemos were run with SMP enabled (r_smp 1).