Test System Setup

Test System

Intel P3-850E 850@850MHz(8.5 x 100MHz)
Intel Celeron 566@850MHz(8.5 x 100MHz)
Intel Celeron 566@566MHz(8.5 x 66MHz)
Abit Slocket III FC-PGA to Slot-1 adapter
Abit BE6-II motherboard
Apacer 128MB PC133 SDRAM

Western Digital Caviar ATA-66 hard drive

ASUS V6800 GeForce 256 32MB DDR
Driver version: Detonator 3.68

Windows 98 SE

Benchmarks

3DMark2000 - 800x600x16
3DMark2000 - 800x600x32
3DMark2000 - 1024x768x16
3DMark2000 - 1024x768x32
3DMark2000 - CPU Marks

SiSoft Sandra2000 - CPU Dhrystone
SiSoft Sandra2000 - FPU Whetstone
SiSoft Sandra2000 - MMX
SiSoft Sandra2000 - SSE

Winstone2000 - Content Creation
Winbench99 - CPU Marks
Winbench99 - FPU Marks

Quake 3 Retail - 640x480 Fastest, Normal
Quake 3 Retail - 800x600 Fastest, Normal
Quake 3 Retail - 1024x768 Fastest, Normal
Quake 3 Retail - 1280x1024 Fastest, Normal

Nocturne - 512x384x16
Nocturne - 512x384x32
Nocturne - 640x480x16
Nocturne - 640x480x32

Notes

We overclocked our Celeron 566 to 850MHz (8.5 x 100MHz) and we ran it against a Pentium III 850E (8.5 x 100MHz) which we obtained from the good people at GamePC. KnowledgeMicro supplied us with the Celeron 566.

We used the BX based Abit BE6-II as our test motherboard. We also wanted run tests on the MSI 6309, but the Celeron made the motherboard very unstable.

We ran our tests with and without the L2 cache enabled on each processor to see if the cache was the reason for the Celeron's less than equal performance. We'll know that the cache is at fault if the two processors perform the same when the L2 cache is disabled. We also threw in the Celeron 566 for those of you that just like comparing overclocked numbers.