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Exclusive Pentium III Review
January 13, 1999   Kenn Hwang > [View My Other Articles]
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Testbed Specs

For regular tests
Intel Pentium III 500 (Retail Product)
Intel Pentium II 450 oc'd to 500(Retail Product)
Supermicro P6SBA Motherboard
    BIOS v. 1.062
Celestia PC-100 3.3v CAS-3 unbuffered SDRAM - 2x64
nVidia reference RivaTNT - STB Velocity 4400
     Driver version 4.10.01.0152
STB Black Magic3D Voodoo2
     Driver version 4.10.01.0158
Western Digital Caviar 26400 6.4GB EIDE HD
Acer 36x Max EIDE CD-ROM

For tests at 560Mhz and 620Mhz
Abit BH6
     BIOS bh6_hn

Benchmarks
(All tests run under a clean install of Windows 98)
Quake II 3.20 - 1024x768x16, 800x600x16, 640x480x8
Half Life 1.06 - 800x600x16
Motocross Madness 1.0
Ziff Davis Winbench 99 - 1024x768x16
Ziff Davis Winstone 98 - 1024x768x16
Ziff Davis Winstone 99 - 1024x768x16

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The Pentium III booted up after a little effort (and without a BIOS update) on my Tyan Thunder 100, but it was noticeably flaky. Make sure you get that new BIOS before you upgrade your CPU!


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